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7211: Policy and performance in customs: evaluating the trade facilitation agreement

Russell Henry Hillberry, Xiaohui Zhang, Russell Henry Hillberry and Xiaohui Zhang

7210: Trade effects of customs reform: evidence from Albania

Ana Margarida Fernandes, Russell Henry Hillberry, Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Russell Henry Hillberry and Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara

7209: Economic shocks and subjective well-being: evidence from a quasi-experiment

Jacob Gerner Hariri, Christian Bjørnskov and Mogens K. Justesen

7208: Interviewer effects in subjective survey questions: evidence from Timor-Leste

Kristen Himelein

7207: What determines entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging markets ? the role of initial conditions

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

7206: Informal tradables and the employment growth of Indian manufacturing

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Alex Segura

7205: Trade reform and regional dynamics: evidence from 25 years of Brazilian matched employer-employee data

Rafael Dix Carneiro and Brian Kovak

7204: Effects of the internet on participation: study of a public policy referendum in Brazil

Paolo Spada, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Carneiro Peixoto and Fredrik Matias Sjoberg

7203: What really works to improve learning in developing countries ? an analysis of divergent findings in systematic reviews

David Evans and Anna Popova

7202: Maize price volatility: does market remoteness matter ?

Ndiaye Moctar, d?Hôtel Elodie,Maitre, Le Cotty Tristan, Ndiaye Moctar, d?Hôtel Elodie,Maitre and Le Cotty Tristan

7201: Is increasing inorganic fertilizer use in Sub-Saharan Africa a profitable proposition ? evidence from Nigeria

Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Wale Olatunji Ogunleye, Bolarin Titus Omonona, Awa Sanou, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie, Wale Olatunji Ogunleye, Bolarin Titus Omonona and Awa Sanou

7200: Drinking water salinity and infant mortality in coastal Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler

7199: Gender differentials and agricultural productivity in Niger

Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna and Kevin Robert Mcgee

7198: Behavioral economics and social exclusion: can interventions overcome prejudice ?

Karla Hoff

7197: "Small miracles"-- behavioral insights to improve development policy: World Development Report 2015

Allison Demeritt and Karla Hoff

7196: Orphans and Ebola: estimating the secondary impact of a public health crisis

David Evans and Anna Popova

7195: Debiasing on a roll: changing gambling behavior through experiential learning

Martin Abel, Shawn Cole and Bilal Zia

7194: The distributional impact of fiscal policy in South Africa

Gabriela Inchauste, Nora Lustig, Mashekwa Maboshe, Catriona Purfield and Ingrid Woolard

7193: Empowering cities: good for growth ? evidence from China

Megha Mukim and Tingting Juni Zhu

7192: The internet as a general-purpose technology: firm-level evidence from around the world

George Clarke, Christine Zhenwei Qiang and Lixin Xu

7191: R&D returns, spillovers, and firm incentives: evidence from China

Chor-Ching Goh, Wei Li and Lixin Xu

7190: The changing patterns of financial integration in Latin America

Tatiana Didier, Matias Moretti and Sergio Schmukler

7189: Sex-selective abortions, fertility, and birth spacing

Claus C Portner

7188: Love, money, and old age support: does parental matchmaking matter ?

Fali Huang, Ginger Zhe Jin and Lixin Xu

7187: Handling the weather: insurance, savings, and credit in West Africa

Francesca de Nicola

7186: Can the knowledge capital model explain foreign investment in services ? the case of Singapore

Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Aaditya Mattoo, Gnanaraj Chellaraj and Aaditya Mattoo

7185: Measuring the determinants of backward linkages from FDI in developing economies: is it a matter of size ?

Miguel Eduardo Sanchez-Martin, Jaime de Pinies and Kassia Antoine

7184: Wage dynamics, turnover, and human capital: evidence from adolescent transition from school to work in the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi

7183: Short-term impacts of formalization assistance and a bank information session on business registration and access to finance in Malawi

Francisco Moraes Leitao Campos, Markus P. Goldstein, David J. Mckenzie, Francisco Moraes Leitao Campos, Markus P. Goldstein and David J. Mckenzie

7182: Same question but different answer: experimental evidence on questionnaire design's impact on poverty measured by proxies

Talip Kilic, Thomas Pave Sohnesen, Talip Kilic and Thomas Pave Sohnesen

7181: Correlates of success in World Bank development policy lending

Peter Moll, Patricia Geli and Pablo Saavedra

7180: Tackling social exclusion: evidence from Chile

Pedro Carneiro, Emanuela Galasso and Rita Ginja

7179: Competition in Kenyan markets and its impact on income and poverty: a case study on sugar and maize

Jonathan Thompson Argent and Tania Priscilla Begazo Gomez

7178: Sustainability of solar electricity: the role of endogenous resource substitution and market mediated responses

Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Gaurav Satija and Fu Zhao

7177: Gone with the storm: rainfall shocks and household well-being in Guatemala

Javier Baez, Leonardo Lucchetti, Maria E. Genoni and Mateo Salazar

7176: Managing risk with insurance and savings: experimental evidence for male and female farm managers in the Sahel

Clara Delavallade, Felipe Dizon, Ruth Vargas Hill and Jean Paul Petraud

7175: Increasing access by waiving tuition: evidence from Haiti

Melissa A. Adelman and Peter A. Holland

7174: Estimating parameters and structural change in CGE models using a Bayesian cross-entropy estimation approach

Delfin Go, Hans Lofgren, Fabian Mendez Ramos and Sherman Robinson

7173: Economic mobility in Europe and Central Asia: exploring patterns and uncovering puzzles

Cesar Cancho, Maria E. Davalos, Giorgia Demarchi, Moritz Meyer and Carolina Sanchez Paramo

7172: Gender inequality and growth: the case of rich vs. poor countries

Mohammad Amin, Veselin Kuntchev and Martin Schmidt

7171: Vulnerability to malnutrition in the West African Sahel

Federica Alfani, Andrew Dabalen, Peter Fisker and Vasco Molini

7170: Can we measure resilience ? a proposed method and evidence from countries in the Sahel

Federica Alfani, Andrew Dabalen, Peter Fisker and Vasco Molini

7169: Connectivity for Caribbean countries: an initial assessment

Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia, Heinrich C. Bofinger, Diana Cubas and Maria Florencia Millan-Placci

7168: Broken gears: the value added of higher education on teachers'academic achievement

Carlos Balcazar and Hugo Ñopo

7167: Moldova: a story of upward economic mobility

Maria E. Davalos and Moritz Meyer

7166: Intentions to return: evidence from Romanian migrants

Tim Hinks and Simon Davies

7165: Living on the edge: vulnerability to poverty and public transfers in Mexico

Alejandro de la Fuente, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán

7164: Promoting handwashing and sanitation: evidence from a large-scale randomized trial in rural Tanzania

Bertha Briceno, Aidan Coville and Sebastian Martinez

7163: Entrepreneurship and the allocation of government spending under imperfect markets

Asif Islam

7162: OECS ports: an efficiency and performance assessment

Diana Cubas, Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia and Heinrich C. Bofinger

7161: Survival is for the fittest: export survival patterns in Georgia

Antonio Martuscelli and Gonzalo Varela

7160: SME exchanges in emerging market economies: a stocktaking of development practices

Alison Harwood and Tanya Konidaris

7159: Public sector size and performance management: a case-study of post-revolution Tunisia

Anne Brockmeyer, Maha Khatrouch and Gaël Raballand

7158: The global trade slowdown: cyclical or structural ?

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo, Michele Ruta, Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

7157: Impact evaluation helps deliver development projects

Arianna Legovini, Vincenzo Di Maro and Caio Piza

7156: Firm heterogeneity and costly trade: a new estimation strategy and policy experiments

Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova, Hiau Looi Kee, Kala M. Krishna, Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova, Hiau Looi Kee and Kala M. Krishna

7155: The rise of China and labor market adjustments in Latin America

Erhan Artuc, Daniel Lederman, Luis Diego Rojas Alvarado, Erhan Artuc, Daniel Lederman and Luis Diego Rojas Alvarado

7154: Local budget transparency and participation: evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic

Damir Esenaliev, Gregory Kisunko and Gregory Kisunko

7153: Long-run effects of democracy on income inequality: evidence from repeated cross-sections

Carlos Balcazar

7152: Born with a silver spoon: inequality in educational achievement across the world

Carlos Balcazar, Ambar Narayan and Sailesh Tiwari

7151: More than copper: toward the diversification and stabilization of Zambian exports

Marius Brülhart, Nora Dihel and Madina Kukenova

7150: From tragedy to renaissance: improving agricultural data for better policies

Raka Banerjee, Calogero Carletto, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Raka Banerjee, Calogero Carletto and Dean Mitchell Jolliffe

7149: European economic and monetary union sovereign debt markets

Ahmet Sensoy, Erk Hacihasanoglu and Ahmed Rostom

7148: Facing the hungry tide: climate change, livelihood threats, and household responses in coastal Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler

7147: Climate change, groundwater salinization and road maintenance costs in coastal Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler

7146: Inequality stagnation in Latin America in the aftermath of the global financial crisis

Louise Cord, Oscar Barriga Cabanillas, Leonardo Lucchetti, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Liliana D. Sousa and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez

7145: Integrating qualitative methods into investment climate impact evaluations

Alejandra Mendoza Alcantara and Michael Woolcock

7144: Export shocks and the volatility of returns to schooling: evidence from twelve Latin American economies

Daniel Lederman and Diego Rojas

7143: A"Delphi exercise"as a tool in Amazon rainforest valuation

Jeffrey R. Vincent, Richard T. Carson, Stale Navrud, Ariel Ortiz Bobea, Jon Strand, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Richard T. Carson, Stale Navrud, Ariel Ortiz Bobea and Jon Strand

7142: What is the social value of second-generation biofuels ?

Thomas W. Hertel, Jevgenijs Steinbuks and Wallace Tyner

7141: Who remained in poverty, who moved up, and who fell down ? an investigation of poverty dynamics in Senegal in the late 2000s

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw, Robertus A Swinkels, Hai-Anh H. Dang, Peter F. Lanjouw and Robertus A Swinkels

7140: Climate change, soil salinity, and the economics of high-yield rice production in coastal Bangladesh

Susmita Dasgupta, Md. Moqbul Hossain, Mainul Huq and David Wheeler

7139: Roads, labor markets, and human capital: evidence from rural Indonesia

Futoshi Yamauchi

7138: Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in Chinese agriculture

Xiaobing Wang, Futoshi Yamauchi, Keijiro Otsuka and Jikun Huang

7137: Measuring risk preferences in rural Ethiopia: risk tolerance and exogenous income proxies

Ferdinand Vieider, Abebe Beyene, Randall Bluffstone, Sahan Dissanayake, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Peter Martinsson and Alemu Mekonnen

7136: Addressing access and behavioral constraints through social intermediation services: a review of Chile Solidario and Red Unidos

Adriana Camacho, Wendy Cunningham, Iamele Rigolini and Veronica Silva

7135: Economic effects of the Syrian war and the spread of the Islamic state on the Levant

Elena Ianchovichina and Maros Ivanic

7134: How significant is Africa's demographic dividend for its future growth and poverty reduction ?

Syud Ahmed, Marcio Cruz, Delfin Go, Maryla Maliszewska and Israel Osorio-Rodarte

7133: Sukuk markets: a proposed approach for development

Ketut Ariadi Kusuma and Anderson Caputo Silva

7132: Transparent government and business regulation:"open for business?"

Carolin Geginat and Valentina Saltane

7131: Local foundations for better governance: A Review of Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao's Localizing Development

Roger Myerson

7130: Incomplete integration and contagion of debt distress in economic unions

Cem Karayalcin and Harun Onder

7129: Party age and party color: new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality

Philip Keefer and Branko Milanovic

7128: Motivations, monitoring technologies, and pay for performance

Antonio Cordella and Tito Cordella

7127: Education attainment in the Middle East and North Africa: success at a cost

Farrukh Iqbal and Youssouf Kiendrebeogo

7126: Climate change and poverty -- an analytical framework

Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Marianne Fay, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg and Adrien Vogt-Schilb

7125: Trade and civil conflict: revisiting the cross-country evidence

Massimiliano Calì and Alen Mulabdic

7124: Place and child health: the interaction of population density and sanitation in developing countries

Payal Hathi, Sabrina Haque, Lovey Pant, Diane Coffey and Dean Spears

7123: Developing social-emotional skills for the labor market: the PRACTICE model

Nancy Guerra, Kathryn Modecki and Wendy Cunningham

7122: Structural reforms and labor market outcomes: international panel data evidence

Claire H. Hollweg, Daniel Lederman and Devashish Mitra

7121: What doesn't kill you makes you poorer: adult wages and the early-life disease environment in India

Nicholas Lawson and Dean Spears

7120: Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters

Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman and Pieter Serneels

7119: Importing high food prices by exporting: rice prices in Lao PDR

Dick Durevall and Roy van der Weide

7118: The creative wealth of nations: how the performing arts can advance development and human progress

Patrick Kabanda

7117: Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: an updated view with formal tests for market failure

Christopher B. Barrett, Brian Dillon, Christopher B. Barrett and Brian Dillon

7116: Agricultural intensification: the status in six African countries

Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Sara Savastano

7115: Long-run growth in Ghana: determinants and prospects

Santiago Herrera and Dilek Aykut

7114: Milking the data: measuring income from milk production in extensive livestock systems -- experimental evidence from Niger

Amadou Adamou Kalilou Boulaga, Giovanni Federighi, Pierre Hiernaux, Alberto Zezza, Amadou Adamou Kalilou Boulaga, Giovanni Federighi, Pierre Hiernaux and Alberto Zezza

7113: What makes a currency procyclical ? an empirical investigation

Tito Cordella and Poonam Gupta

7112: Housing consumption and urbanization

Nancy Lozano-Gracia and Cheryl Young