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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 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 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

7111: Does livestock ownership affect animal source foods consumption and child nutritional status ? evidence from rural Uganda

Carlo Azzarri, Elizabeth Cross, Beliyou Haile, Alberto Zezza, Carlo Azzarri, Elizabeth Cross, Beliyou Haile and Alberto Zezza

7110: Urbanization and housing investment

Basab Dasgupta, Somik Lall and Nancy Lozano-Gracia

7109: The economic effects of a borrower bailout: evidence from an emerging market

Xavier Gine and Martin Kanz

7108: Income diversification patterns in rural Sub-Saharan Africa: reassessing the evidence

Benjamin K. Davis, Stefania Di Giuseppe, Alberto Zezza, Benjamin K. Davis, Stefania Di Giuseppe and Alberto Zezza

7107: The post-crisis growth slowdown in emerging economies and the role of structural reforms

Zia Qureshi, Jose Luis Diaz-Sanchez and Aristomene Varoudakis

7106: Twinning the goals: how can promoting shared prosperity help to reduce global poverty ?

Christoph Lakner, Mario Negre Rossignoli, Espen Beer Prydz, Christoph Lakner, Mario Negre Rossignoli and Espen Beer Prydz

7105: Durable goods and poverty measurement

Nicola Amendola and Giovanni Vecchi

7104: Transitioning from low-income growth to high-income growth: is there a middle income trap ?

David Bulman, Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen

7103: Rent imputation for welfare measurement: a review of methodologies and empirical findings

Carlos Balcazar, Lidia Ceriani, Sergio Olivieri and Marco Ranzani

7102: Public sectors in the pacific islands: are they'too big'and do they'crowd out'the private sector ?

Virginia Horscroft

7101: Poverty and the spatial distribution of rural population

Edward Barbier and Jacob Hochard

7100: Oil and civil conflict: can public spending have a mitigation effect ?

Raju Singh, Cristina Bodea and Masaaki Higashijima

7099: Rewarding safer sex: conditional cash transfers for HIV/STI prevention

Damien de Walque, William Dow and Rose Nathan

7098: Success in difficult environments: a portfolio analysis of fragile and conflict-affected states

Laura Ralston

7097: Should income inequality be reduced and who should benefit ? redistributive preferences in Europe and Central Asia

Alexandru Cojocaru and Mame Fatou Diagne

7096: Estimates of ad valorem equivalents of barriers against foreign suppliers of services in eleven services sectors and 103 countries

Yaghoob Jafari and David Tarr

7095: The gendered labor market impacts of trade liberalization: evidence from Brazil

Isis Gaddis and Janneke Pieters

7094: The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment

Michael Toman

7093: Can agricultural households farm their way out of poverty ?

Andrew L. Dabalen, Kevin Robert Mcgee, Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu, Andrew L. Dabalen, Kevin Robert Mcgee and Gbemisola Oseni Siwatu

7092: Does culture matter for development ?

Augusto Lopez-Claros and Valeria Perotti

7091: Protected areas and deforestation: new results from high resolution panel data

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and David Wheeler

7090: The impact of household food consumption data collection methods on poverty and inequality measures in Niger

Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna, Ismael Yacoubou Djima, Diane E. Steele, Prospere R. Backiny-Yetna, Ismael Yacoubou Djima and Diane E. Steele

7089: Some simple analytics of trade and labor mobility

Erhan Artuc, Shubham Chaudhuri, John Edward Mclaren, Erhan Artuc, Shubham Chaudhuri and John Edward Mclaren

7088: Assessing public debt sustainability in Mauritania with a stochastic framework

William Baghdassarian, Gianluca Mele and Juan Pradelli

7087: Promoting women's economic empowerment: what works ?

Mayra Buvinic and Rebecca Furst-Nichols

7086: Inheritance law reform, empowerment, and human capital accumulation: second-generation effects from India

Klaus Deininger, Fang Xia, Songqing Jin and Hari Nagarajan

7085: Does land fragmentation increase the cost of cultivation ? evidence from India

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Monchuk, Hari Nagarajan and Sudhir Singh

7084: Strengthening public financial management: exploring drivers and effects

Verena Fritz, Stephanie Sweet and Marijn Verhoeven

7083: Dropout in upper secondary education in Mexico: patterns, consequences and possible causes

Raja Bentaouet Kattan and Miguel Szekely

7082: Informing migration policies: a data primer

Calogero Carletto, Jennica Larrison, Caglar Ozden, Calogero Carletto, Jennica Larrison and Caglar Ozden

7081: Weather shocks and health at birth in Colombia

Mabel Andalón, João Pedro Azevedo, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Viviane Sanfelice and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez

7080: Village political economy, land tenure insecurity, and the rural to urban migration decision: evidence from China

John Giles and Ren Mu

7079: Trafficking and fragility in West Africa

Laura Ralston

7078: Job creation in fragile and conflict-affected situations

Laura Ralston

7077: Can conditional cash transfers improve education and nutrition outcomes for poor children in Bangladesh ? evidence from a pilot project

Celine Ferre and Iffath Sharif

7076: Does mandating nondiscrimination in hiring practices influence women's employment ? evidence using firm-level data

Mohammad Amin and Asif Islam

7075: Pathways toward zero-carbon electricity required for climate stabilization

Richard Audoly, Adrien Vogt-Schilb and Céline Guivarch

7074: Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance of newborn firms in developing countries

Francesco Quatraro and Marco Vivarelli

7073: CGE analysis of the impact of foreign direct investment and tariff reform on female and male wages

María Latorre

7072: Diet quality, child health, and food policies in developing countries

Alok Bhargava

7071: From tapering to tightening: the impact of the fed's exit on India

Kaushik Basu, Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta

7070: Interest rate caps around the world: still popular, but a blunt instrument

Samuel Munzele Maimbo and Claudia Henriquez

7069: The second wave of independence: shopping for solutions

Marie M. Gaarder and Ulrich Bartsch

7068: Which firms create the most jobs in developing countries ? evidence from Tunisia

Hassen Arouri, Caroline Freund, Antonio Nucifora, Bob Rijkers, Hassen Arouri, Caroline Freund, Antonio Nucifora and Bob Rijkers

7067: Urban infrastructure investment and rent-capture potentials

Vincent Viguié and Stephane Hallegatte

7066: Non-farm enterprises in rural Africa: new empirical evidence

Paula Nagler, Wim Naude, Paula Nagler and Wim Naude

7065: The effects of financial development on foreign direct investment

Rodolphe Desbordes and Shang-Jin Wei

7064: Radio frequency (un)identification: results from a proof-of-concept trial of the use of RFID technology to measure microenterprise turnover in Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, Dammika Herath, David McKenzie and Yuvraj Pathak

7063: Credit conditions and foreign direct investment during the global financial crisis

Rodolphe Desbordes and Shang-Jin Wei

7062: Performance of renewable energy auctions: experience in Brazil, China and India

Gabriela Elizondo Azuela, Luiz Barroso, Ashish Khanna, Xiaodong Wang, Yun Wu and Gabriel Cunha

7061: The critical mass approach to achieve a deal on green goods and services: what is on the table? how much to expect ?

Jaime de Melo and Mariana Vijil

7060: Green subsidies and the WTO

Steve Charnovitz

7059: Agricultural policies and trade paths in Turkey

Donald Larson, Will Martin, Sebnem Sahin and Marino Tsigas

7058: Measuring agricultural knowledge and adoption

Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller and Siyao Jessica Zhu

7057: Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration

David McKenzie and Dean Yang

7056: Agricultural productivity, hired labor, wages and poverty: evidence from Bangladesh

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

7055: Spatial dynamics of electricity usage in India

Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr

7054: Water quality, brawn, and education: the rural drinking water program in China

Lixin Xu and Jing Zhang

7053: Foreign bank subsidiaries'default risk during the global crisis: what factors help insulate affiliates from their parents ?

Deniz Anginer, Eugenio Cerutti and Maria Martinez Peria