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10553: A Spatial Perspective on Booms and Busts: Evidence from Türkiye

Javier Eduardo Baez Ramirez, Cigdem Celik and Varun Sridhar Kshirsagar

10552: Greener Is Not Always Pricier: Ecolabeling and Price Premium in the Tourism Industry

Ridwan Bolaji Bello, Olanrewaju Malik Kassim and Sodiq Oladayo Bello

10551: A Climate-Fiscal Policy Mix to Achieve Türkiye’s Net-Zero Ambition under Feasibility Constraints

Christian Schoder and Remzi Baris Tercioglu

10550: The Rough Road to Services and Livelihood Opportunities in Rural Haiti and the Added Impact of Natural Disasters

Aiga Stokenberga, Cecilia Nallely Escalante Hernandez, Karla Dominguez Gonzalez, Xavier Espinet Alegre and Malaika Becoulet

10549: Does Food Insecurity Hinder Migration ? Experimental Evidence from the Indian Public Distribution System

Travis Baseler, Ambar Narayan, Odyssia Sophie Si Jia Ng and Sutirtha Sinha Roy

10548: Ayollarga nisbatan ish haqini kamsitish uchun imtiyozlar

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10547: Fiscal Policy as a Tool for Gender Equity in El Salvador

Monica Robayo-Abril, Ana Maria Tribin Uribe and Jose Andres Oliva Cepeda

10546: Assessing the Effectiveness of Social Protection Measures in Mitigating COVID-19-Related Income Shocks in the European Union

Katrin Gasior, H. Xavier Jara and Mattia Makovec

10545: Learning from Self and Learning from Others: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Florence Kondylis, John Ashton Loeser, Mushfiq Mobarak, Maria Ruth Jones and Daniel Kevin Stein

10544: Missing SDG Gender Indicators

Kathleen G. Beegle, Umar Serajuddin, Brian William Stacy and Divyanshi Wadhwa

10543: The Value of Information in a Congested Fishery

Aaron Gabriel Ratliffe Englander, Larry Karp and Leo Simon

10542: Evaluation of Educational Loss in Europe and Central Asia

Harry Patrinos, Maciej Jan Jakubowski and Tomasz Janusz Gajderowicz

10541: Seasonal Deprivation in the Sahel Is Large, Widespread, and Can Be Anticipated

Jonathan William Lain and Stephanie Brunelin

10540: Rule-Based Civil Service: Evidence from a Nationwide Teacher Reform in Mexico

Juan Bedoya, Rafael E. De Hoyos Navarro and Ricardo Estrada

10539: Reducing Carbon using Regulatory and Financial Market Tools

Franklin Allen, Adelina Barbalau and Federica Zeni

10538: Fiscal Policy and Equity: Vietnam 2018 Fiscal Incidence Analysis

Laura Kiku Rodriguez Takeuchi, Kajetan Wladyslaw Trzcinski and Matthew Grant Wai-Poi

10537: Services Trade Policies across Africa: New Evidence for 54 Economies

Laura Baiker, Ingo Borchert, Joscelyn Magdeleine and Juan Marchetti

10536: Plant Closings and the Labor Market Outcomes of Displaced Workers: Evidence from Mexico

Francisco Javier Arias Vazquez and Daniel Lederman

10535: Disastrous Displacement: The Long-Run Impacts of Landslides

Travis Baseler and Jakob Johannes Hennig

10534: Agglomeration Economies and Transport Connectivity Revisited: A Regional Perspective Based on Evidence from the Caucasus and Central Asian Countries

Atsushi Iimi

10533: Estimating Road Freight Transport Costs in Eastern Europe and Central AsiaUsing Large Shipping Data

Atsushi Iimi

10532: Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization

Diana Goldemberg, Luke Simon Jordan and Thomas Kenyon

10531: Trading Places: Fundamentals, Speculation, and Information in US Corn Markets

Francisco Arroyo Marioli

10530: The Welfare Effects of Structural Change and Internal Migration in Tanzania

Akuffo Amankwah, Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Goodiel Charles Moshi and Robertus A Swinkels

10529: Is the Magic Happening ? A Systematic Literature Review of the Economic Multiplier of Cash Transfers

Franziska Gassmann, Ugo Gentilini, Julieta Morais, Conrad Nunnenmacher, Yuko Okamura, Giulio Bordon and Giorgia Valleriani

10528: Moving to Adaptation ? Understanding the Migratory Response to Hurricanes in the United States

Arnold Behrer and Valentin Bolotnyy

10527: The Distributional Impact of Inflation in South Asia: An Empirical Approach

Vanessa-Paradis Olakemi Dovonou Lamissi and Zoe Leiyu Xie

10526: Mobile Phones and Local Economic Development: A Global Evidence

Justice Tei Mensah

10525: Global Trends in Child Monetary Poverty According to International Poverty Lines

Daylan Alberto Salmeron Gomez, Solrun Engilbertsdottir, Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva, David Newhouse and David Stewart

10524: Religious Terrorism, Forced Migration, and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency

Paola Elice, Fernanda Martínez Flores and Arndt Rudiger Reichert

10523: Issuer Composition and Stock Market Growth

Djeneba Doumbia, Imtiaz Ul Haq and Valentina Saltane

10522: Buy Big or Buy Small ? Procurement Policies, Firms’ Financing, and the Macroeconomy

Julian di Giovanni, Manuel Jose Garcia Santana, Priit Jeenas, Enrique Moral Benito and Josep Pijoan-Mas

10521: The Monetary Value of Externalities: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Farmers

Benedetta Lerva

10520: Revisiting the Distributive Impacts of Fiscal Policy in Colombia

Juan Pablo Baquero, Maria Eugenia Davalos and Juan Manuel Monroy Barragan

10519: An Axiomatic Study Contrasting the Two Main Poverty Line Rules

Benoit Marie A Decerf

10518: Gender-Segmented Labor Markets and Trade Shocks

Carlos Andre Bezerra De Goes, Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo and Raymond Robertson

10517: Green Transmission: Context, Rationale, and Planning Methodology

Debabrata Chattopadhyay and Durreh Tabassum

10516: Steered Away from the Fields: Short-Term Impacts of Oxen on Agricultural Production and Intra-household Labor Supply

Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Aletheia Donald and Lea Marie Rouanet

10515: Air Pollution Reduces Economic Activity: Evidence from India

Arnold Behrer, Rishabh Choudhary and Dhruv Sharma

10514: Firms in Global Value Chains during Covid-19: Evidence from Indonesia

Devaki Ghose and Angella Montfaucon

10513: The Internationalization of China’s Equity Markets

Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Maria Martinez Peria, Sergio Schmukler and Jasmine Xiao

10512: Small Area Estimation of Poverty and Wealth Using Geospatial Data: What Have We Learned So Far ?

David Newhouse

10511: Experimental Evaluation of a Financial Education Program in Elementary and Middle School Grades

Caio Piza, Isabela Brandao Furtado and Vivian De Fatima Amorim

10510: Power Constraints and Firm-Level Total Factor Productivity in Developing Countries

Ablam Estel Apeti and Alpha Ly

10509: Female-Worker Representation Effect: Gender Pay Variation in the Kuwaiti Civil Service

Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Simon Bilo, Ha Nguyen, Ebtesam AlAnsari, Lama AlHumaidan and Faleh M F E Alrashidi

10508: Over-Drilling: Local Externalities and the Social Cost of Electricity Subsidies for Groundwater Pumping

Jesus Bueren, Xavier Gine, Hanan Jacoby and Pedro Mira

10507: Violent Discipline and Parental Behavior: Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers

Lelys Ileana Dinarte Diaz, Saravana Ravindran, Manisha Shah, Shawn Michael Powers and Helen Baker-Henningham

10506: Who Should Drive Green Technology Transitions in Developing Countries: State-Owned Enterprises versus Private Firms

Prudence Zowadan Dato, Frank Krysiak, Christian Nolde and Govinda R. Timilsina

10505: (Perceptions of) Inequality, Demand for Redistribution, and Group-Specific Public Goods: A Survey Experiment in India

Maurizio Bussolo and Akshay Govind Dixit

10504: Natural Disaster, Infrastructure, and Income Distribution: Empirical Evidence from Global Data

Ze Song, Gal Hochman and Govinda R. Timilsina

10503: Psychology, Skills, or Cash ? Evidence on Complementary Investments for Anti-Poverty Programs

Megan Elizabeth Lang, Edward Soule and Catherine H. Tinsley

10502: How Prevalent Are Credit-Constrained Firms in the Formal Private Sector ? Evidence Using Global Surveys

Asif Islam and Jorge Luis Rodriguez Meza

10501: A Survey of Judicial Effectiveness: The Last Quarter Century of Empirical Evidence

Erica Bosio

10500: Corporate Responses to Size-Based Tax Rates in Lithuania

Pablo Garriga and Thiago Scot

10499: The Early Career Dynamics of Informality and Underemployment: Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt

Samia Ferhat and Clement Jean Edouard Joubert

10498: Learning Poverty at the Local Level in Colombia

Gabriel Demombynes

10497: Considering Labor Informality in Forecasting Poverty and Inequality: A Microsimulation Model for Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Kelly Montoya Muñoz, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Cicero Augusto Silveira Braga

10496: The Impact of the Transition and EU Membership on the Returns to Schooling in Europe

Harry Patrinos and Angelica Rivera-Olvera

10495: Poverty and Inequality Implications of Fiscal Policies: The Case of Brazil

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Maynor Cabrera, Otavio Canozzi Conceicao and Ricardo Campante Cardoso Vale

10494: A Tale of Two Surveys: Comparing the Outcomes of an In-Person and Web-Based Survey of Mental Health in the West Bank and Gaza

Arden Jeremy Finn, Jessica Marie Anderson and Alia Jane Aghajanian

10493: Why Do People Move across State Borders ? Evidence from Mexico

Trinidad Berenice Saavedra Facusse and Gabriela Inchauste

10492: Filling the Gaps: Childcare Laws for Women's Economic Empowerment

S Anukriti, Lelys Ileana Dinarte Diaz, Marina Elefante, Maria Montoya Aguirre and Alena Sakhonchik

10491: The Economic Effects of Market Integration in the Western Balkans

Maria Del Mar Gomez Ortiz, Roman David Zarate Vasquez and Daria Taglioni

10490: Trade Elasticities in Aggregate Models: Estimates for 191 Countries

Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin Go and Sherman Robinson

10489: Returns to Soft Skills Training in Rwanda

Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman and Diego Ubfal

10488: How Do Agricultural Import Tariffs Affect Men and Women Smallholders ? Evidence from Bangladesh

Gayatri B. Koolwal, Caren Grown and Nasiruddin Ahmed

10487: Social Sustainability and the Development Process: What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and How Can It Be Enhanced ?

Patrick John Barron, Louise J. Cord, Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva, Sabina Anne Espinoza, Gregory Michael Larson and Michael Woolcock

10486: Measuring Total Carbon Pricing

Paolo Agnolucci, Carolyn Fischer, Dirk Heine, Mariza Montes De Oca Leon, Joseph Dixon Callisto Pryor and Stephane Hallegatte

10485: A Net Cure or Curse ? Tracking the Impact of E-Commerce on Urban Freight Transport Intensity in Bogotá and Buenos Aires

Aiga Stokenberga, Linda Ellin Maria Ivarsson Molina and Juan Ignacio Fulponi

10484: The COVID-19 Mark on Urban Mobility: A Tale of Two Cities’ Journey to Recovery

Aiga Stokenberga, Linda Ellin Maria Ivarsson Molina and Juan Ignacio Fulponi

10483: Can Digital Personalized Learning for Mathematics Remediation Level the Playing Field in Higher Education ? Experimental Evidence from Ecuador

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Ciro Avitabile and Marjorie H Chinen

10482: What Can We Learn from Pre-Primary Quality Assurance Systems ? Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt

Caroline Gould Krafft, Samira Nikaein Towfighian, Abbie Raikes and Rebecca Sayre Mojgani

10481: Consumer Surplus with Incomplete Markets: Applications to Savings and Microfinance

John Ashton Loeser

10480: Territorial Productivity Differences and Dynamics within Latin American Countries

Olivia Severine D'Aoust, Virgilio Galdo and Elena Ianchovichina

10479: Analysis of Teacher Stock versus Flow in Primary Education in East Asia and the Pacific Middle-Income Countries: A Simple Model and Results from Simulation between 2020 and 2030

Nobuyuki Tanaka and Lars M. Sondergaard

10478: Early Impacts of Indonesia’s Investment Reforms: A Preliminary Analysis

Angella Montfaucon, Victor Kidake Senelwa and Aufa Doarest

10477: Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes

Sabien Dobbelaere, Grace McCormack, Daniel Prinz and Sándor Sóvágó

10476: Distributional Effects of Carbon Tax in Ethiopia: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Govinda R. Timilsina and Samuel Sebsibie

10475: External Debt, Fiscal Consolidation, and Government Expenditure on Education

Elise Wendlassida Miningou

10474: Learning during the Pandemic: Evidence from Uzbekistan

Syedah Aroob Iqbal and Harry Patrinos

10473: Economics of Political Clientelism and Corruption — A Theoretical Pathway

Rasit Pertev

10472: The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ School Attendance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anna B Kis, Claire Elise Boxho, Isis Gaddis, Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube and Lea Marie Rouanet

10471: Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts ? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs

Aanchal Bagga, Marcus Erik Holmlund, Nausheen Khan, Subha Mani, Eric Mvukiyehe and Patrick Premand

10470: A New Distribution Sensitive Index for Measuring Welfare, Poverty, and Inequality

Aart C. Kraay, Christoph Lakner, Berk Özler, Benoit Marie A Decerf, Dean Jolliffe, Olivier Christian Brigitte Sterck and Nishant Yonzan

10469: Cholera Risk in Lusaka: A Geospatial Analysis to Inform Improved Water and Sanitation Provision

Peter William Gething, Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling, Josses Mugabi, Odete Duarte Muximpua, George Joseph and Solomon Sitinadziwe Kagulura

10468: Trade Credit: Theory and Evidence for Emerging Economies and Developing Countries

Robert J. Cull, Chorching Goh and L. Colin Xu

10467: Examining Business Reform Committees: Findings from a New Global Dataset

Dorina Peteva Georgieva, Varun Eknath and Michael Woolcock

10466: Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty and Inequality ? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis

Hai-Anh Dang, Minh Nguyen and Trong-Anh Trinh

10465: Trade and Civil Conflicts

Hoda Assem Mohammed G Hassan Ahmed

10464: Impact of the Russian Invasion on Ukrainian Farmers’ Productivity, Rural Welfare, and Food Security

Klaus W. Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Ming Fang

10463: Export Diversification from an Activity Perspective: An Exploration Using Occupation Data

Hagen Kruse, Marcel Timmer, Gaaitzen Johannes De Vries and Xianjia Ye

10462: Are Carbon Taxes Good for South Asia?

Valerie Anne Mercer-Blackman, Lazar Milivojevic and Victor Mylonas

10461: Protecting Who ? Optimal Social Protection Responses to Shocks with Limited Information

Carlos Gustavo Ospino Hernandez, Iamele P. Rigolini, Sarah Coll-Black and Ana Maria Oviedo Silva

10460: Measuring Tax Progressivity in Low-Income Countries

Alastair Geoffrey Arthur Thomas

10459: The Power of Religion: Islamic Investing in the Lab

Sheheryar Banuri, Lucia Milena Murgia and Imtiaz Ul Haq

10458: Bank Ownership and Firm Innovation

Francesca de Nicola, Martin Melecký and Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias

10457: Struggling with the Rain: Weather Variability and Food Insecurity Forecasting in Mauritania

Paul Blanchard, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Thibaut Humbert and Rafael Van Der Borght

10456: Using Paradata to Assess Respondent Burden and Interviewer Effects in Household Surveys: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Ardina Roosiany Hasanbasri, Talip Kilic, Gayatri B. Koolwal and Heather G. Moylan

10455: An Empirical Analysis of the Social Contract in the Middle East and North Africa: Region and the Role of Digitalization in Its Transformation

Farid Gasmi, Dorgyles Christ Maurel Kouakou, Paul Noumba Um and Pedro Rojas Milla

10454: Exporting and Technology Adoption in Brazil

Xavier Cirera, Diego Adolfo Comin, Marcio Cruz, Kyung Min Lee and Antonio Soares Martins Neto