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5751: A hybrid approach to efficiency measurement with empirical illustrations from education and health

Adam Wagstaff and Liang Wang

5750: Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers using the current population surveys

Avraham Ebenstein, Ann Harrison, Margaret McMillan and Shannon Phillips

5749: Decomposing the great trade collapse: products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis

Mona Haddad, Ann Harrison and Catherine Hausman

5748: Commitments to save: a field experiment in rural Malawi

Lasse Brune, Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang

5747: Governance in state-owned enterprises revisited: the cases of water and electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Luis Andres, Jose Luis Guasch and Sebastian Lopez Azumendi

5746: Informality and protection from health shocks: lessons from Yemen

Yoonyoung Cho

5745: War and women's work: evidence from the conflict in Nepal

Nidhiya Menon and Yana Rodgers

5744: The role of inventory adjustments in quantifying factors causing food price inflation

Gal Hochman, Deepak Rajagopal, Govinda Timilsina and David Zilberman

5743: Does parental disability matter to child education ? evidence from Vietnam

Cuong Nguyen and Daniel Mont

5742: The"resource curse"in MENA ? political transitions, resource wealth, economic shocks, and conflict risk

Michael Ross, Kai Kaiser and Nimah Mazaheri

5741: What did the Maoists ever do for us ? education and marriage of women exposed to civil conflict in Nepal

Christine Valente

5740: Why does the productivity of education vary across individuals in Egypt ? firm size, gender, and access to technology as sources of heterogeneity in returns to education

Santiago Herrera and Karim Badr

5739: Entrepreneurship capital and technical efficiency: the role of new business / firms as a conduit of knowledge spillovers

Leopoldo Laborda, Jose Luis Guasch and Daniel Sotelsek

5738: The labor market, education and armed conflict in Tajikistan

Olga Shemyakina

5737: Measuring aversion to debt: an experiment among student loan candidates

Gregorio Caetano, Harry Patrinos and Miguel Palacios

5736: Efficiency in public procurement in Rural Road Projects of Nepal

Radia Benamghar and Atsushi Iimi

5735: Do high and volatile levels of public investment suggest misconduct ? the role of institutional quality

Francesco Grigoli and Zachary Mills

5734: Lasting welfare effects of widowhood in a poor country

Dominique van de Walle

5733: Civil society, public action and accountability in Africa

Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani and Michael Walton

5732: Mixtures of g-priors for Bayesian Model Averaging with economic application

Eduardo Ley and Mark Steel

5731: Who uses bottled gas ? evidence from households in developing countries

Masami Kojima, Robert Bacon and Xin Zhou

5730: Political economy of the mining sector in Ghana

Joseph Ayee, Tina Søreide, G. P. Shukla and Tuan Minh Le

5729: Development banks: role and mechanisms to increase their efficiency

Eva Gutierrez, Heinz P. Rudolph, Theodore Homa and Enrique Blanco Beneit

5728: Aid to the services sector: does it affect manufacturing exports ?

Esteban Ferro, Alberto Portugal-Perez and John Wilson

5727: Productivity effects of land rental markets in Ethiopia: Evidence from a matched tenant-landlord sample

Klaus Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Tekie Alemu

5726: Trade credit contracts

Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Raghuram Rajan

5725: Nature, socioeconomics and adaptation to natural disasters: new evidence from floods

Susana Ferreira, Kirk Hamilton and Jeffrey Vincent

5724: Implications of a lowered damage trajectory for mitigation in a continuous-time stochastic model

Jon Strand

5723: Low-level versus high-level equilibrium in public utility service

Jon Strand

5722: The air connectivity index: measuring integration in the global air transport network

Jean-François Arvis and Ben Shepherd

5721: Diaspora effects in international migration: key questions and methodological issues

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Caglar Ozden

5720: The correlation between human capital and morality and its effect on economic performance: theory and evidence

David J. Balan and Stephen Knack

5719: Population, poverty, and sustainable development: a review of the evidence

Monica Das Gupta, John Bongaarts and John Cleland

5718: Heterogenous peer effects, segregation and academic attainment

Maria Ana Lugo

5717: Can diaries help improve agricultural production statistics ? Evidence from Uganda

Calogero Carletto, Klaus W. Deininger, James Muwonge, Sara Savastano, Calogero Carletto, Klaus W. Deininger, James Muwonge and Sara Savastano

5716: Trends and socioeconomic gradients in adult mortality around the developing world

Damien de Walque and Deon Filmer

5715: The effects of conflict on fertility in Rwanda

Kati Schindler and Tilman Brück

5714: Does female empowerment promote economic development ?

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

5713: Sierra Leone's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Nataliya Pushak and Vivien Foster

5712: Growth poles and multipolarity

Jonathon Adams-Kane and Jamus Lim

5711: Trade liberalization, firm heterogeneity, and wages: new evidence from matched employer-employee data

Pravin Krishna, Jennifer Poole and Mine Senses

5710: Crossing boundaries: gender, caste and schooling in rural Pakistan

Hanan Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri

5709: Where on earth is everybody ? the evolution of global bilateral migration 1960-2000

Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons, Maurice Schiff and Terrie Walmsley

5708: Does female reservation affect long-term political outcomes ? Evidence from rural India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Hari Nagarajan and Xia Fang

5707: Intersubjective meaning and collective action in'fragile'societies: theory, evidence and policy implications

Varun Gauri, Michael Woolcock and Deval Desai

5706: When is capital enough to get female enterprises growing ? evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, David McKenzie, Simon Quinn and Christopher Woodruff

5705: How do ex ante simulations compare with ex post evaluations ? evidence from the impact of conditional cash transfer programs

Phillippe Leite, Ambar Narayan and Emmanuel Skoufias

5704: The politics of power: the political economy of rent-seeking in electric utilities in the Philippines

Zahid Hasnain and Yasuhiko Matsuda

5703: A cluster-based industrial development policy for low-income countries

Keijiro Otsuka and Tetsushi Sonobe

5702: From flying Geese to leading Dragons: new opportunities and strategies for structural transformation in developing countries

Justin Lin

5701: Export quality dynamics

Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

5700: Deconstructing herding: evidence from pension fund investment behavior

Claudio Raddatz and Sergio Schmukler

5699: Redressing grievances and complaints regarding basic service delivery

Varun Gauri

5698: Niger's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Vivien Foster

5697: The Central African Republic's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Vivien Foster

5696: The silence of corruption: identifying underreporting of business corruption through randomized response techniques

Nathan Jensen and Aminur Rahman

5695: Exporting from a small landlocked economy: an assessment of firm-product-destination survival rates in the Lao PDR

Liviu Stirbat, Richard Record and Konesawang Nghardsaysone

5694: The success of infrastructure projects in low-income countries and the role of selectivity

Nicola Limodio

5693: Disaster risk financing and contingent credit: a dynamic analysis

Daniel Clarke and Olivier Mahul

5692: Together we will: experimental evidence on female voting behavior in Pakistan

Xavier Gine and Ghazala Mansuri

5691: Exports and international logistics

Alberto Behar, Philip Manners and Benjamin Nelson

5690: Making services work: indicators, assessments, and benchmarking of the quality and governance of public service delivery in the human development sectors

Ariel Fiszbein, Dena Ringold and Frederic Rogers

5689: Benin's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Carolina Dominguez-Torres and Vivien Foster

5688: Mali's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia, Carolina Dominguez and Nataliya Pushak

5687: Cape Verde's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia and Daniel Alberto Benitez

5686: Nigeria's infrastructure: a continental perspective

Vivien Foster and Nataliya Pushak

5685: A profile of border protection in Egypt: an effective rate of protection approach adjusting for energy subsidies

Alberto Valdes and William Foster

5684: Adjusting the labor supply to mitigate violent shocks: evidence from rural Colombia

Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Ana Ibáñez and Ximena Peña

5683: Small area estimation-based prediction methods to track poverty: validation and applications

Luc Christiaensen, Peter Lanjouw, Jill Luoto and David Stifel

5682: Is infrastructure capital productive ? a dynamic heterogeneous approach

Cesar Calderon, Enrique Moral-Benito and Luis Servén

5681: Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital: evidence from Colombia

Javier Baez and Adriana Camacho

5680: Schooling and youth mortality: learning from a mass military exemption

Piero Cipollone and Alfonso Rosolia

5679: Implications of the Doha market access proposals for developing countries

David Laborde Debucquet, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

5678: Under what conditions does a carbon tax on fossil fuels stimulate biofuels ?

Govinda Timilsina, Stefan Csordas and Simon Mevel

5677: International harmonization of product standards and firm heterogeneity in international trade

José-Daniel Reyes

5676: Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy

Philip Keefer

5675: Strategic climate policy with offsets and incomplete abatement: carbon taxes versus cap-and-trade

Jon Strand

5674: Students today, teachers tomorrow ? identifying constraints on the provision of Education

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Khwaja

5673: World oil price and biofuels: a general equilibrium analysis

Govinda Timilsina, Simon Mevel and Ashish Shrestha

5672: Biofuels and climate change mitigation: a CGE analysis incorporating land-use change

Govinda Timilsina and Simon Mevel

5671: Reliability of recall in agricultural data

Kathleen G. Beegle, Calogero Carletto, Kristen Himelein Kastelic, Kathleen G. Beegle, Calogero Carletto and Kristen Himelein Kastelic

5670: Financial liberalization and allocative dfficiency of capital

Madina Kukenova

5669: Does cash for school influence young women's behavior in the longer term ? evidence from Pakistan

Andaleeb Alam, Javier Baez and Ximena V. Del Carpio

5668: Eight questions about brain drain

John Gibson and David McKenzie

5667: Incentive compatible reforms: the political economy of public investments in Mongolia

Zahid Hasnain

5666: Fiscal policy and debt dynamics in developing countries

Ethan Ilzetzki

5665: Measuring the impacts of global trade reform with optimal aggregators of distortions

David Laborde Debucquet, Will Martin and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

5664: Mobile banking and financial inclusion: the regulatory lessons

Michael Klein and Colin Mayer

5663: Cotton subsidies, the WTO, and the'cotton problem'

John Baffes

5662: Deep trade policy options for Armenia: the importance of services, trade facilitation and standards liberalization

Jesper Jensen and David Tarr

5661: Economic performance under NAFTA: a firm-level analysis of the trade-productivity linkages

Rafael De Hoyos and Leonardo Iacovone

5660: On the relevance of freedom and entitlement in development: new empirical evidence (1975-2007)

Jean-Pierre Chauffour

5659: Maize revolutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Melinda Smale, Derek Byerlee and Thomas Jayne

5658: Is it what you inherited or what you learnt ? Intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal

Sylvie Lambert, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

5657: Success and failure of African exporters

Olivier Cadot, Leonardo Iacovone, Martha Denisse Pierola and Ferdinand Rauch

5656: Political economy studies: are they actionable ? some lessons from Zambia

Monica Beuran, Gaël Raballand and Kapil Kapoor

5655: Governance in the health sector: a strategy for measuring determinants and performance

William D. Savedoff

5654: Trade policies, investment climate, and exports across countries

Murat Seker

5653: Methodology for the assessment of data quality: application to HIV and AIDS programs in Latin America

Rosalia Rodriguez-Garcia, Michel Eric Gaillard, Alejandra Suarez Lissi and Pedro Magne Condarco

5652: Rising food prices and household welfare: evidence from Brazil in 2008

Francisco Ferreira, Anna Fruttero, Phillippe Leite and Leonardo Lucchetti