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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 Sánchez-Martín, 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 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

Timothy 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 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