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8157: A cross-country database of fiscal space

Ayhan Kose, Sergio Andres Kurlat, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara

8156: Through the looking glass: can classroom observation and coaching improve teacher performance in Brazil ?

Barbara Bruns, Leandro Oliveira Costa and Nina Menezes Cunha

8155: Can business input improve the effectiveness of worker training? evidence from Brazil's Pronatec-MDIC

Stephen O'Connell, Lucas Ferreira Mation, Joao Bevilaqua Teixeira Basto and Mark Andrew Dutz

8154: Surveys, big data, and experiments: how can we best learn about LGBTI development outcomes ?

Dominik Koehler and Nicholas Menzies

8153: Natural resources, institutions, and economic growth: the case of Nigeria

Anna Raggl

8152: Rental regulation and its consequences on measures of well-being in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Vibhuti Mendiratta and Tara Vishwanath

8151: A proximity-based approach to labor mobility in CGE models with an application to Sub-Saharan Africa

Hans Lofgren and Martín Cicowiez

8150: Poverty-specific purchasing power parities in Africa

Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Tefera Bekele Degefu and Inyoung Song

8149: Regulating water and sanitation network services accounting for institutional and informational constraints

Daniel Camos and Antonio Estache

8148: Measuring women's agency

Aletheia Donald, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Jeannie Ruth Annan, Kathryn Falb and Markus Goldstein

8147: Measuring time use in development settings

Greg Seymour, Hazel Jean Malapit and Agnes Quisumbing

8146: Measuring ownership, control, and use of assets

Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran and Talip Kilic

8145: Productivity in the non-oil sector in Nigeria: firm-level evidence

Santiago Herrera and Wilfried Kouamé

8144: Arm's-length trade: a source of post-crisis trade weakness

Csilla Lakatos and Franziska Ohnsorge

8143: Pension funds and the impact of switching regulation on long-term investment

Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales, Olga Fuentes, Pamela Searle and Fiona Elizabeth Stewart

8142: Predicting school dropout with administrative data: new evidence from Guatemala and Honduras

Melissa Adelman, Francisco Haimovich, Andrés Ham and Emmanuel Vazquez

8141: Can job training decrease women?s self-defeating biases ? experimental evidence from Nigeria

Kevin Croke, Markus Goldstein and Alaka Holla

8140: Evidence for a presource curse ? oil discoveries, elevated expectations, and growth disappointments

James Cust and David Mihalyi

8139: Distributional impact analysis: toolkit and illustrations of impacts beyond the average treatment effect

Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Luca Bittarello, Jonathan Martin Villars Davis and Nikolas Karl Mittag

8138: Mission impossible? exploring the promise of multiple imputation for predicting missing GPS-based land area measures in household surveys

Talip Kilic, Ismael Yacoubou Djima and Calogero Carletto

8137: Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid

Brandon de la Cuesta, Helen V. Milner, Daniel Lafayette Nielson and Stephen Knack

8136: Pension funds, capital markets, and the power of diversification

Fiona Elizabeth Stewart, Romain Despalins and Inna Remizova

8135: Global inequality in a more educated world

Syud Ahmed, Maurizio Bussolo, Marcio Cruz, Delfin Go and Israel Osorio-Rodarte

8134: Land productivity and plot size: is measurement error driving the inverse relationship ?

Sam Desiere and Dean Jolliffe

8133: Assessing the global economic and poverty effects of antimicrobial resistance

Syud Amer Ahmed, Enis Baris, Delfin Sia Go, Hans Lofgren, Israel Osorio-Rodarte, Karen E. Thierfelder, Syud Amer Ahmed, Enis Baris, Delfin Sia Go, Hans Lofgren, Israel Osorio-Rodarte and Karen E. Thierfelder

8132: Trains, trade and transaction costs: how does domestic trade by rail affect market prices of Malawi agricultural commodities ?

Wouter Zant

8131: Whose power gets cut ? using high-frequency satellite images to measure power supply irregularity

Brian Min, O'Keeffe,Zachary and Fan Zhang

8130: The impact of electricity shortages on firm productivity: evidence from Pakistan

Corbett Alden Grainger and Fan Zhang

8129: The nexus of energy supply and human health

Govinda R. Timilsina

8128: Exchange rate and inflation dynamics in Zambia

Lionel Joshua Roger, Gregory Smith and Oliver Morrissey

8127: Farm size and productivity: a"direct-inverse-direct"relationship

Sara Savastano, Pasquale L. Scandizzo, Sara Savastano and Pasquale L. Scandizzo

8126: Services trade and global value chains

Cecilia Heuser, Aaditya Mattoo, Cecilia Heuser and Aaditya Mattoo

8125: Willing but unable ? short-term experimental evidence on parent empowerment and school quality

Elizabeth Ruth Beasley, Elise Huillery, Elizabeth Ruth Beasley and Elise Huillery

8124: Understanding the impact of windstorms on economic activity from night lights in Central America

Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Juan Jose Miranda Montero, Hongrui Zhang, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Hongrui Zhang

8123: Approximating income distribution dynamics using aggregate data

Aart Kraay and Roy van der Weide

8122: Tax administration practices and firms? perceptions of corruption: evidence from Europe and Central Asia

B. Ponomariov, Oleksii Balabushko, Gregory Kisunko, B. Ponomariov, Oleksii Balabushko and Gregory Kisunko

8121: "Create"or"buy": internal vs. external sources of innovation and firm productivity

Jieun Choi and Jieun Choi

8120: Unheard voices: the challenge of inducing women's civic speech

Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao, Nethra Palaniswamy, Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao and Nethra Palaniswamy

8119: Deliberative inequality: a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies

Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao, Nethra Palaniswamy, Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao and Nethra Palaniswamy

8118: The effect of local governance on firm productivity and resource allocation: evidence from Vietnam

Shawn Weiming Tan, Trang Thu Tran, Shawn Weiming Tan and Trang Thu Tran

8117: On the predictability of growth

Matthieu Claudio Ascagne Cristelli, Andrea Tacchella, Masud Z. Cader, Kirstin Ingrid Roster and Luciano Pietronero

8116: Education and health services in Uganda: quality of inputs, user satisfaction, and community welfare levels

Clarence Tsimpo, Alvin Etang Ndip and Quentin Wodon

8115: The effects of health insurance within families: experimental evidence from Nicaragua

Anne Fitzpatrick and Rebecca Thornton

8114: The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment: firm-level evidence for a global sample of cities

José-Daniel Reyes, Mark Roberts and Lixin Xu

8113: Biased policy professionals

Sheheryar Banuri, Stefan Dercon and Varun Gauri

8112: Well begun, but aiming higher: a review of Vietnam's education trends in the past 20 years and emerging challenges

Hai-Anh Dang and Paul Glewwe

8111: Beyond income poverty: nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda

Alvin Etang Ndip and Clarence Tsimpo

8110: Does the adoption of complex software impact employment composition and the skill content of occupations ? evidence from Chilean firms

Rita Kullberg Almeida, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Mariana Viollaz, Rita Kullberg Almeida, Ana Margarida Fernandes and Mariana Viollaz

8109: Are caste categories misleading ? the relationship between gender and Jati in three Indian states

Shareen Joshi, Nishtha Kochhar and Vijayendra Rao

8108: Cyclicality of fiscal policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: magnitude and evolution

Cesar Calderon, Punam Chuhan-Pole and Rafael Matias Lopez-Monti

8107: Fast, easy, and cheap job matching: social networks in Bangladesh

Norihiko Matsuda and Shinsaku Nomura

8106: Estimating the welfare costs of reforming the Iraq public distribution system: a mixed demand approach

Nandini Krishnan, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Racha Ramadan

8105: Employment multipliers over the business cycle

Ha Nguyen and Jiaming Soh

8104: But ? what is the poverty rate today? testing poverty nowcasting methods in Latin America and the Caribbean

German Daniel Caruso, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti, Eduardo Malasquez, Thiago Scot and R. Castañeda

8103: Scaling up distributed solar in emerging markets: the case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Dalia Abdelhamid Mahmoud Sakr, Joern Torsten Huenteler, Tyeler Marissa Matsuo and Ashish Khanna

8102: Heterogeneous effects of rural electrification: evidence from Bangladesh

Hussain A. Samad and Fan Zhang

8101: Bureaucratic blockages: water, civil servants, and community in Tanzania

Juli Bailey

8100: Should emerging markets worry about U.S. monetary policy announcements ?

Poonam Gupta, Oliver Masetti and David Rosenblatt

8099: Multidimensional poverty in the Philippines, 2004-13: do choices for weighting, identification and aggregation matter ?

Gaurav Datt

8098: Do individual investors ignore transaction costs ?

Deniz Anginer, Snow Xue Han and Celim Yildizhan

8097: Prices, Engel curves, and time-space deflation: impacts on poverty and inequality in Vietnam

John Gibson, Trinh Le and Bonggeun Kim

8096: Rural non-farm employment and household welfare: evidence from Malawi

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Saweda Lenis Liverpool-Tasie, Alejandro De La Fuente and Rui Benfica

8095: Soft skills for hard constraints: evidence from high-achieving female farmers

Joao Montalvao, Michael Dr. Frese, Markus Goldstein and Talip Kilic

8094: Cities, slums, and early child growth: empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Dhushyanth Raju, Kyoung Yang Kim, Quynh T. Nguyen and Ramesh Govindaraj

8093: How important are spillovers from major emerging markets ?

Raju Huidrom, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge

8092: Job fairs: matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia

Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Redmond Quinn and Forhad J. Shilpi

8091: Financial globalization and market volatility: an empirical appraisal

Tito Cordella and Anderson Ospino Rojas

8090: On-the-job training: returns, barriers to provision, and policy implications

Priyam Saraf

8089: Spatial autocorrelation panel regression: agricultural production and transport connectivity

Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You, Ulrike Wood-Sichra, Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You and Ulrike Wood-Sichra

8088: Port rail connectivity and agricultural production: evidence from a large sample of farmers in Ethiopia

Atsushi Iimi, Haileyesus Adamtei, James Markland and Eyasu Tsehaye

8087: Beyond dualism: agricultural productivity, small towns, and structural change in Bangladesh

M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi

8086: Full-time teachers, students, and curriculum: the single-shift model in Rio de Janeiro

Tassia De Souza Cruz, Andre Loureiro and Eduardo Sa

8085: The labor market effects of financial crises: the role of temporary contracts in central and western Europe

Siddharth Sharma and Hernan Winkler

8084: Colombo: exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to floods

Archana Mahesh Patankar

8083: Information technology and provision of national identification cards by the Bolivian police: evidence from two randomized natural field experiments

Alberto Chong, Carlos Machicado Salas and Monica Yanez Pagans

8082: Credit composition, output composition, and external balances

Roumeen Islam

8081: A review of the anthropological literature on the civil service

Colin Brewster Hoag and Matthew Hull

8080: How do women fare in rural non-farm economy ?

Habtamu Neda Fuje

8079: In the mind, the household, or the market ? concepts and measurement of women's economic empowerment

Louise Fox and Carolina Romero

8078: Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries

Stephen Knack, Nataliya Biletska and Kanishka Kacker

8077: Does energy efficiency promote economic growth?: evidence from a multi-country and multi-sector panel data set

Ashish Rajbhandari and Fan Zhang

8076: Energy prices and international trade: incorporating input-output linkages

H. Ron Chan, Edward John Matlock Manderson and Fan Zhang

8075: Predicting conflict

Bledi Celiku and Aart Kraay

8074: Is consanguinity an impediment to improving human development outcomes ?

Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John Giles and Harold Alderman

8073: Societal poverty: a relative and relevant measure

Dean Jolliffe and Espen Beer Prydz

8072: Perceptions of distributive justice in Latin America during a period of falling inequality

German Jeremias Reyes and Leonardo Carlos Gasparini

8069: Where to create jobs to reduce poverty: cities or towns ?

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Ravi Kanbur, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

8068: The rise of the middle class and economic growth in ASEAN

Markus Brueckner, Era Dabla-Norris, Mark Gradstein and Daniel Lederman

8067: Elections and embezzlement: experimental evidence from Burkina Faso

Malte Lierl

8066: Why do some oil-rich countries perform better than others ?

Farrukh Iqbal and Youssouf Kiendrebeogo

8065: Crossovers: female entrepreneurs who enter male sectors -- evidence from Ethiopia

Salman Alibhai, Niklas Buehren, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Rachael Susan Pierotti

8064: Status goods: experimental evidence from platinum credit cards

Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz, Gautam Rao, Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz and Gautam Rao

8063: Effect of stress on later-life health: evidence from the Vietnam war draft

John Cawley, Damien de Walque and Daniel Grossman

8062: The entry of randomized assignment into the social sciences

Julian C Jamison

8061: To sew or not to sew ? assessing the welfare effects of the garment industry in Cambodia

Carolina Mejia-Mantilla and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichae

8060: The effects of in-kind demand-side conditional transfers for improving uptake of maternal and child health services in Rwanda

Gil Shapira, Ina Kalisa, Jeanine Condo, James Humuza, Cathy Mugeni and Jeanette Walldorf

8059: Effects of performance incentives for community health worker cooperatives in Rwanda

Gil Shapira, Ina Kalisa, Jeanine Condo, James Humuza, Cathy Mugeni, Denis Nkunda and Jeanette Walldorf

8058: Compensation, diversity and inclusion at the World Bank Group

Jishnu Das, Clément Joubert and Sander Florian Tordoir

8057: Collecting the dirt on soils: advancements in plot-level soil testing and implications for agricultural statistics

Calogero Carletto, Ermias Aynekulu, Sydney Gourlay and Keith Shepherd

8056: Industrial policy, information, and government capacity

William Maloney and Gaurav Nayyar