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6552: Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

6551: Factors influencing energy intensity in four Chinese industries

Karen Fisher-Vanden, Yong Hu, Gary Jefferson, Michael Rock and Michael Toman

6550: From guesstimates to GPStimates: land area measurement and implications for agricultural analysis

Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay, Paul Conal Winters, Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay and Paul Conal Winters

6549: A retrospective analysis of the house prices macro-relationship in the United States

Ibrahim Ahamada and Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez

6548: (Ineffective) messages to encourage recycling: evidence from a randomized evaluation in Peru

Alberto Chong, Dean Karlan, Jeremy Shapiro and Jonathan Zinman

6547: Collective action and community development: evidence from self-help groups in rural India

Raj Desai and Shareen Joshi

6546: How does risk management influence production decisions? evidence from a field experiment

Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Gine and James Vickery

6545: Gender differences in the effects of vocational training: constraints on women and drop-out behavior

Yoonyoung Cho, Davie Kalomba, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera, Yoonyoung Cho, Davie Kalomba, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak and Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera

6544: Are mega-farms the future of global agriculture ? exploring the farm size-productivity relationship

Klaus Deininger, Denys Nizalov and Sudhir Singh

6543: Welfare and poverty impacts of India's national rural employment guarantee scheme: evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu

6542: China's 2008 labor contract law: implementation and implications for China's workers

Mary Gallagher, John Giles, Albert Park and Meiyan Wang

6541: Incentivizing schooling for learning: evidence on the impact of alternative targeting approaches

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Deon P. Filmer, Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Deon P. Filmer

6540: Impact evaluation of three types of early childhood development interventions in Cambodia

Adrien Bouguen, Deon Filmer, Karen Macours and Sophie Naudeau

6539: Criss-crossing migration

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

6538: Do economic crises lead to health and nutrition behavior responses ? analysis using longitudinal data from Russia

Zlatko Nikoloski and Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad

6537: The contribution of African women to economic growth and development in post-colonial Africa: historical perspectives and policy implications

Emmanuel Akyeampong and Hippolyte Fofack

6536: An expansion of a global data set on educational quality: a focus on achievement in developing countries

Noam Angrist, Harry Patrinos and Martin Schlotter

6535: Food price spikes, price insulation, and poverty

Kym Anderson, Maros Ivanic and Will Martin

6534: Resource reallocation and innovation: converting enterprise risks into opportunities

Mark A. Dutz

6533: Determinants of job creation in eleven new EU member states: evidence from firm level data

Harald Oberhofer and Gallina A Vincelette

6532: The impact of government support on firm R&D investments: a meta-analysis

Paulo Correa, Luis Andres and Christian Borja-Vega

6531: Solow in transition: macro and micro determinants of savings in Armenia

Souleymane Coulibaly and Mohamed Diaby

6530: Economic development as opportunity equalization

John Roemer

6529: Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation: a 20-year followup to an experimental intervention in Jamaica

Susan Chang-Lopez, Paul Gertler, Sally Grantham-Mcgregor, James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Christel M. J. Vermeersch, Susan Walker and Arianna Zanolini

6528: The transmission of banking crises to households: lessons from the 2008-2011 crises in the ECA region

Martin Brown

6527: Long-term impacts of household electrification in rural India

Dominique van de Walle, Martin Ravallion, Vibhuti Mendiratta and Gayatri Koolwal

6526: It's only words: validating the CPIA governance assessments

Stephen Knack

6525: Explaining the last consumption boom-bust cyclein Ireland: the role of news and noise shocks

Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez

6524: An economic model of Brazil's ethanol-sugar markets and impacts of fuel policies

Harry de Gorter, Dusan Drabik, Erika M. Kliauga and Govinda Timilsina

6523: A public strategy for compliance monitoring

Varun Gauri, Jeffrey K. Staton and Jorge Vargas Cullell

6522: Gender inequality in multidimensional welfare deprivation in west Africa: the case of Burkina Faso and Togo

Akoete Ega Agbodji, Yele Batana and Denis Ouedraogo

6521: Cooperation and reciprocity in carbon sequestration contracts

Paula Cordero Salas

6520: Trade and innovation in services: evidence from a developing economy

Leonardo Iacovone, Aaditya Mattoo and Andres Zahler

6519: Understanding the sources of spatial disparity and convergence: evidence from Bangladesh

Forhad Shilpi

6518: The effect of product standards on agricultural exports from developing countries

Esteban Ferro, John Wilson and Tsunehiro Otsuki

6517: Stress-testing Africa's recent growth and poverty performance

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go, Maryla Maliszewska, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Hans Timmer

6516: Climate change in the Himalayas: current state of knowledge

Mahesh R. Gautam, Govinda Timilsina and Kumud Acharya

6515: How much does an increase in oil prices affect the global economy ? some insights from a general equilibrium analysis

Govinda Timilsina

6514: Enduring impacts of aid quality on job choices: the case of the 2004 tsunami in Aceh

Manabu Nose

6513: Understanding child labor beyond poverty: the structure of the economy, social norms, and no returns to rural basic education

Alexander Krauss

6512: Increase in protectionism and its impact on Sri Lanka's performance in global markets

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Francis Ng

6511: Connection charges and electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa

Raluca Golumbeanu and Douglas Barnes

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 Servén

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