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6510: Do elected councils improve governance ? experimental evidence on local institutions in Afghanistan

Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov

6509: Cost-effective estimation of the population mean using prediction estimators

Tomoki Fujii and Roy van der Weide

6508: The impact of consulting services on small and medium enterprises: evidence from a randomized trial in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn, Dean Karlan and Antoinette Schoar

6507: Entry regulation and formalization of microenterprises in developing countries

Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie

6506: A global urban risk index

Henrike Brecht, Uwe Deichmann and Hyoung Gun Wang

6505: Resource discoveries, learning, and national income accounting

Kirk Hamilton and Giles Atkinson

6504: Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on cross-sections

Hai-Anh Dang and Peter Lanjouw

6503: Designing contracts for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

Paula Cordero Salas

6502: Addressing additionality in REDD contracts when formal enforcement is absent

Paula Cordero Salas, Brian Roe and Brent Sohngen

6501: Aid, disbursement delays, and the real exchange rate

Alexandra Jarotschkin and Aart Kraay

6500: Macroeconomic and distributional impacts of jatropha-based biodiesel in Mali

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Massa Coulibaly, Govinda Timilsina and Luc Savard

6499: Are biofuels economically competitive with their petroleum counterparts ?production cost analysis for Zambia

Thomson Sinkala, Govinda Timilsina and Indira J. Ekanayake

6498: Should Zambia produce biodiesel from soybeans ? some insights from an empirical analysis

Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik and Govinda Timilsina

6497: Expanding social insurance coverage in urban China

John Giles, Dewen Wang and Albert Park

6496: Impact evaluation of conflict prevention and peacebuilding interventions

Marie Gaarder and Jeannie Annan

6495: A resource allocation model for tiger habitat protection

Susmita Dasgupta, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft and David Wheeler

6494: Powering up developing countries through integration ?

Emmanuelle Auriol and Sara Biancini

6493: Regulation, trade and productivity in Romania: an empirical assessment

Donato De Rosa, Mariana Iootty and Ana Florina Pirlea

6492: Technological learning, energy efficiency, and CO2 emissions in China's energy intensive industries

Michael T. Rock, Michael Toman, Yuanshang Cui, Kejun Jiang, Yun Song and Yanjia Wang

6491: The projection of development: cinematic representation as an(other) source of authoritative knowledge ?

David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers and Michael Woolcock

6490: Missing(ness) in action: selectivity bias in GPS-based land area measurements

Calogero Carletto, Talip Kilic, Sara Savastano, Alberto Zezza, Calogero Carletto, Talip Kilic, Sara Savastano and Alberto Zezza

6489: Social spending, distribution, and equality of opportunities: opportunity incidence analysis

Jose Cuesta

6488: Misunderestimating corruption

Aart Kraay, Aart Kraay and Peter Murrell

6487: The decision to invest in child quality over quantity: household size and household investment in education in Vietnam

Hai-Anh Dang and Frederic Rogers

6486: China: west or east wind -- getting the incentives right

Yanqin Song and Noureddine Berrah

6485: Multidimensional auctions for public energy efficiency projects: evidence from the Japanese ESCO market

Atsushi Iimi

6484: The role of private equity investments in public firms: international evidence

Sandeep Dahiya, Leora Klapper, Harini Parthasarathy and Dorothe Singer

6483: What does MFN trade mean for India and Pakistan ? can MFN be a Panacea ?

Prabir De, Selim Raihan and Ejaz Ghani

6482: Inequality in China: an overview

John Knight

6481: Is urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa different ?

J. Vernon Henderson, Mark Roberts and Adam Storeygard

6480: PPML estimation of dynamic discrete choice models with aggregate shocks

Erhan Artuc

6479: Partial consumption insurance and financial openness across the world

Constantino Hevia and Luis Serven

6478: How many dimensions do we trade in ? product space geometry and latent comparative advantage

Jean-Francois Arvis

6477: Collateral registries for movable assets: does their introduction spur firms'access to bank finance ?

Inessa Love, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria and Sandeep Singh

6476: Can conditional cash transfers compensate for a father's absence ?

Emla Fitzsimons and Alice Mesnard

6475: Duration dependence and change-points in the likelihood of credit booms ending

Vitor Castroa and Megumi Kubota

6474: Network proximity and business practices in African Manufacturing

Marcel Fafchamps and Mans Soderbom

6473: Agriculture as a sector of opportunity for young people in Africa

Karen Brooks, Sergiy Zorya, Amy Gautam and Aparajita Goyal

6472: Export diversification in twelve European and Central Asian countries and the role of the commodity boom

Gonzalo Varela

6471: Calculating the carbon footprint from different classes of air travel

Heinrich Bofinger and Jon Strand

6470: Political determinants of fossil fuel pricing

Cees van Beers and Jon Strand

6469: Social protection, poverty and the post-2015 agenda

Ariel Fiszbein, Ravi Kanbur and Ruslan Yemtsov

6468: Education and civil conflict in Nepal

Christine Valente

6467: Greening global value chains: innovation and the international diffusion of technologies and knowledge

Matthieu Glachant, Damien Dussaux, Yann Ménière and Antoine Dechezleprêtre

6466: Estimating quarterly poverty rates using labor force surveys: a primer

Mohamed Douidich, Abdeljaouad Ezzrari, Roy van der Weide and Paolo Verme

6465: Ensuring robust flood risk management in Ho Chi Minh city

Dean A. Cira, Nidhi Rajiv Kalra, Robert J. Lempert, Alexander Lotsch, Zhimin Mao, Suzanne Peyraud and Sinh Tan Bach

6464: Blue water and the consequences of alternative food security policies in the Middle East and North Africa for water security

Donald Larson

6463: Developing country trade policies and market access issues: 1990-2012

Constantine Michalopoulos and Francis Ng

6462: International liquidity rents

Maya Eden

6461: The poverty impact of climate change in Mexico

Alejandro de la Fuente and Marcelo Olivera Villarroel

6460: How to move the exchange rate if you must: the diverse practice of foreign exchange intervention by central banks and a proposal for doing it better

Kaushik Basu and Aristomene Varoudakis

6459: Credit-less recoveries: neither a rare nor an insurmountable challenge

Naotaka Sugawara and Juan Zalduendo

6458: Engaging for results in civil service reforms: early lessons from a problem-driven engagement in Sierra Leone

Benjamin Roseth and Vivek Srivastava

6457: The labor market impact of mobility restrictions: evidence from the West Bank

Massimiliano Calì and Sami Miaari

6456: Structural change, dualism and economic development: the role of the vulnerable poor on marginal lands

Edward Barbier

6455: Long-term drivers of food prices

John Baffes and Allen Dennis

6454: The exceptional persistence of India's unorganized sector

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen D. O'Connell

6453: The effect of biodiesel policies on world oilseed markets and developing countries

Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik and Govinda Timilsina

6452: Micro dynamics of Turkey's export boom in the 2000s

Tolga Cebeci and Ana Fernandes

6451: Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality: a case study in village India

Himanshu Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw, Rinku Murgai and Nicholas Stern

6450: Drawing a roadmap for oil pricing reform

Masami Kojima

6449: The inequality possibility frontier: extensions and new applications

Branko Milanovic

6448: Trade insulation as social protection

Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko and Martin Ravallion

6447: Jobs, wellbeing, and social cohesion: evidence from value and perception surveys

Catriona Mcleod and Frank-Borge Wietzke

6446: Conducting ethical economic research: complications from the field

Harold Alderman, Jishnu Das and Vijayendra Rao

6445: Poverty reduction during the rural-urban transformation: the role of the missing middle

Luc Christiaensen and Yasuyuki Todo

6444: Farther on down the road: transport costs, trade and urban growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Adam Storeygard

6443: Water hauling and girls'school attendance: some new evidence from Ghana

Celine Nauges and Jon Strand

6442: Bank competition, concentration, and credit reporting

Miriam Bruhn, Subika Farazi and Martin Kanz

6441: Biodiversity and national accounting

Kirk E. Hamilton

6440: A"greenprint"for international cooperation on climate change

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

6439: Why is voluntary financial education so unpopular ? Experimental evidence from Mexico

Miriam Bruhn, Gabriel Lara Ibarra and David McKenzie

6438: A model of gendered production in colonial Africa and implications for development in the post-colonial period

Hippolyte Fofack

6437: How can safety nets contribute to economic growth ?

Harold Alderman and Ruslan Yemtsov

6436: Different dreams, same bed: collecting, using, and interpreting employment statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa -- the case of Uganda

Louise Fox and Obert Pimhidzai

6435: A helping hand or the long arm of the law ? experimental evidence on what governments can do to formalize firms

Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn and David McKenzie

6434: Trade policy barriers: an obstacle to export diversification in Eurasia

Ana Paula Cusolito and Claire H. Hollweg

6433: Political economy of public policies: insights from distortions to agricultural and food markets

Kym Anderson, Gordon Rausser and Johan Swinnen

6432: Services linkages and the value added content of trade

Joseph Francois, Miriam Manchin and Patrick Tomberger

6431: Informality and profitability: evidence from a new firm survey in Ecuador

Denis Medvedev and Ana Maria Oviedo

6430: Energy intensive infrastructure investments with retrofits in continuous time: effects of uncertainty on energy use and carbon emissions

Nils Framstad and Jon Strand

6429: Risk sharing and internal migration

Joachim De Weerdt and Kalle Hirvonen

6428: Models of public service reform: a problem-solving approach

Willy McCourt

6427: How to avoid middle income traps ? evidence from Malaysia

Aaron Flaaen, Ejaz Ghani and Saurabh Mishra

6426: Eliciting illegal migration rates through list randomization

David McKenzie and Melissa Siegel

6425: Productivity growth in Europe

Andrea Dall'Olio, Mariana Iootty, Naoto Kanehira and Federica Saliola

6424: Potential and actual FDI spillovers in global value chains: the role of foreign investor characteristics, absorptive capacity and transmission channels

Deborah Winkler

6423: Building or bypassing recipient country systems: are donors defying the Paris declaration ?

Stephen Knack

6422: Urbanization and poverty reduction -- the role of rural diversification and secondary towns

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Yasuyuki Todo

6421: Foreign wage premium, gender and education: insights from Vietnam household surveys

Emiko Fukase

6420: Foreign job opportunities and internal migration in Vietnam

Emiko Fukase

6419: Export liberalization, job creation and the skill premium: evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam bilateral trade agreement

Emiko Fukase

6418: Schooling, violent conflict, and gender in Burundi

Philip Verwimp and Jan Van Bavel

6417: Municipal vulnerability to climate change and climate related events in Mexico

Christian Borja-Vega and Alejandro de la Fuente

6416: Financial inclusion and legal discrimination against women: evidence from developing countries

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer

6415: Should marginal abatement costs differ across sectors ? the effect of low-carbon capital accumulation

Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Guy Meunier and Stephane Hallegatte

6414: Is labor income responsible for poverty reduction ? a decomposition approach

João Pedro Azevedo, Gabriela Inchauste, Sergio Olivieri, Jaime Saavedra and Hernan Winkler

6413: Export entrepreneurship and trade structure in Latin America during good and bad times

Ana Fernandes, Daniel Lederman and Mario Gutierrez-Rocha

6412: Food prices, wages, and welfare in rural India

Hanan Jacoby

6411: Estimating the half-life of theoretically founded real exchange rate misalignments

Megumi Kubota