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10674: Closing the gap: Effect of a gender quota on women's access to education in Afghanistan Downloads
Rafiuddin Najam
10673: Missing Evidence: Tracking Academic Data Use around the World Downloads
Brian William Stacy, Lucas Kitzmüller, Xiaoyu Wang, Daniel Gerszon Mahler and Umar Serajuddin
10672: Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Typology Downloads
Shireen AlAzzawi, Hai-Anh Dang, Vladimir Hlasny, Ksenia Abanokova and Jere Behrman
10671: Estimating Economic Costs of Unhealthy Diets: A Proposed Methodology Downloads
Susan E. Horton, Patrizia Fracassi, Kendra Siekmans, Tomoko Kato and Giles Hanley-Cook
10670: Job Finding and Separation among Syrian refugees in Jordan and Their Hosts during the COVID-19 Pandemic Downloads
Sarah Mohammad Osman Wahby and Ragui A Assaad
10669: The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times Downloads
Yoonyoung Cho and Teresa Sacro Molina
10668: Costing Disasters: Hedonic Pricing, Neighborhood Effects, and the Nepal Gorkha Earthquakes Downloads
Vincent Floreani and Martin Rama
10667: Are Global Value Chains Women Friendly in Developing Countries ? Evidence from Firm-Level Data Downloads
Marize Kalliny and Chahir Zaki
10666: COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA Downloads
Maciej Jan Jakubowski, Tomasz Janusz Gajderowicz and Harry Patrinos
10665: Trade, Outsourcing, and the Environment Downloads
Erhan Artuc and Konstantin Heinrich Ludwig Sommer
10664: Labor Market Participation and Employment Choice in Ghana: Do Individual Personality Traits and Gender Role Attitudes Matter ? Downloads
Akuffo Amankwah, Pauline Castaing, Nkechi Owoo and Amparo Palacios-Lopez
10663: Could Digital Inclusion Close the Gender Economic Gap in the MENA Region ? Downloads
Mahmoud Mohieldin and Racha Ramadan
10662: Leveraging Big Data to Understand Women’s Mobility in Buenos Aires Downloads
Aiga Stokenberga, Linda Ellin Maria Ivarsson Molina, Juan Ignacio Fulponi and Karla Dominguez Gonzalez
10661: For Labor or for Divorce ? Unilateral Divorce Laws and Women’s Labor Outcomes Downloads
Najat El Mekkaoui, Sara Loukili, Yeganeh Fourouheshfar and Nada Eissa
10660: The Impacts of Disasters on African Agriculture: New Evidence from Micro-Data Downloads
Philip Randolph Wollburg, Yannick Markhof, Thomas Patrick Bentze and Giulia Ponzini
10659: Connecting People to Projects: A New Approach to Measuring Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa Downloads
Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft
10658: Are Regional Fiscal Multipliers on EU Structural and Investment Fund Spending Large ? A Reassessment of the Evidence Downloads
Federico Ivan Fiuratti, Desislava Enikova Nikolova, Steven Michael Pennings and Marc Tobias Schiffbauer
10657: Reassessing Welfare Impacts of Bulgarian Fiscal Policy through a Child Poverty Perspective Downloads
Monica Robayo-Abril and Maynor Vinicio Cabrera
10656: Correcting Sampling and Nonresponse Bias in Phone Survey Poverty Estimation Using Reweighting and Poverty Projection Models Downloads
Kexin Zhang, Shinya Takamatsu and Nobuo Yoshida
10655: How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes ? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics Downloads
Oyebola M. Okunogbe and Gabriel Tourek
10654: Can Effective Policy Implementation Alter Political Selection ? Evidence from Female Legislators in India Downloads
S Anukriti, Rossella Calvi and Abhishek Chakravarty
10653: Unraveling the Factors behind Women's Empowerment in the Labor Market in Colombia Downloads
Ana María Iregui-Bohórquez, Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra, Maria Ramirez-Giraldo, Ana Tribin and Héctor M. Zárate-Solano
10652: The Macroeconomic Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from Brazil Downloads
Arthur Galego Mendes, Wataru Miyamoto, Thuy Lan Nguyen, Steven Michael Pennings and Leo Feler
10651: Shifting Spousal Decision-Making Patterns: Whom You Target in an Agricultural Intervention Matters Downloads
Tara Bedi, Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein and Tigist Assefa Ketema
10650: Spatial Misallocation of Complementary Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Brazil Downloads
Fidel Pérez-Sebastián, Rafael Serrano Quintero and Jevgenijs Steinbuks
10649: Does State Ownership Have Limits in Romania ? An Assessment of Firm Performance and Market Outcomes Downloads
Seidu Dauda, Georgiana Pop and Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias
10648: What Explains Global Inflation Downloads
Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge
10647: Vehicle and Fuel Taxation for Transport Demand Management: Learnings from the Literature through a Development Lens Downloads
He He and Chaeyoung Kim
10646: The Effect of COVID-19 on the Gender Employment Gap in Egyptian Manufacturing Downloads
Amirah El-Haddad and Phoebe W. Ishak
10645: The Trade-Growth Nexus: Evidence of Causality from Innovative Instruments for Trade Downloads
Ibrahim Nana, Sephooko Ignatius Motelle and Susan K. Starnes
10644: Firms and Climate Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Downloads
Ana Goicoechea and Megan Elizabeth Lang
10643: Impacts and Sources of Air Pollution in Tbilisi, Georgia Downloads
Sandra Baquie, Arnold Behrer, Xinming Du, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Natsuko Kiso Nozaki
10642: Fertilizer Import Bans, Agricultural Exports, and Welfare: Evidence from Sri Lanka Downloads
Devaki Ghose, Eduardo Pinheiro Fraga and Ana Margarida Fernandes
10641: Government Support and Firm Performance during COVID-19 Downloads
Miriam Bruhn, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Dorothe Singer
10640: Are Ride-Hailing Services and Public Transport Complements or Substitutes ? Evidence from the Opening of Jakarta’s MRT System Downloads
Maarten Bosker, Mark Roberts, Sailesh Tiwari, Putu Sanjiwacika Wibisana, Maria Monica Wihardja and Ramda Yanurzha
10639: Revealing 21% of GDP in Hidden Assets: Evidence from Argentina Downloads
Juliana Londoño-Vélez and Dario Tortarolo
10638: Preparatory School Years and Maternal Employment in Romania Downloads
Monica Robayo-Abril and Britta Laurin Rude
10637: Leveraging Trade for More and Better Job Opportunities in Developing Countries: A Framework for Policy Downloads
Ben Shepherd and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler
10636: Productive Longevity: What Can Work in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? Downloads
Sara Johansson De Silva and Indhira Vanessa Santos
10635: Linking Trade to Jobs, Incomes, and Activities: New Stylized Facts for Low- and Middle-Income Countries Downloads
Deborah Elisabeth Winkler, Hagen Kruse, Luis Alejandro Aguilar Luna and Maryla Maliszewska
10634: Quantifying Economic Impacts of Trade Agreements with Heterogeneous Trade Elasticities Downloads
Hiau Looi Kee and Alessandro Nicita
10633: Disruptive Technologies and Finance: An Analysis of Digital Startups in Africa Downloads
Marcio Cruz, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez and Edgar Salgado Chavez
10632: Banking in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges in Volatile Times Downloads
Thorsten Beck, Robert J. Cull, Davide Salvatore Mare and Patricio Valenzuela
10631: Data Gaps in Microdata in the Context of Forced Displacement Downloads
Takaaki Masaki and B. Madson
10630: The Valuation of Flexible Work Arrangements: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Malaysia Downloads
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Alyssa Farha Binti Jasmin and Amanina Binti Abdur Rahman
10629: Social Insurance for Gig Workers: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Malaysia Downloads
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Amanina Binti Abdur Rahman and Alyssa Farha Binti Jasmin
10628: Is There Still A Role for Direct Government Support to Firms in Developing Countries? Downloads
David J. Mckenzie
10627: Malnourished but Not Destitute: The Spatial Interplay between Nutrition and Poverty in Madagascar Downloads
Dunstan Matekenya, Francis Muamba Mulangu and David Newhouse
10626: Migration, families, and counterfactual families Downloads
Simone Bertoli, David McKenzie and Elie Murard
10625: Asking Better Questions: The Effect of Changing Investment Organizations’ Evaluation Practices on Gender Disparities in Funding Innovation Downloads
Amisha Miller, Saurabh A. Lall, Markus Goldstein and Joao Montalvao
10624: Stuck in a Conflict Trap: The Case of the Central African Republic Civil War Downloads
Pierre Jean-Claude Mandon, Vincent Remi Nossek and Diderot Guy D Estaing Sandjong Tomi
10623: Energy Price Shocks and Current Account Balances: Evidence from Emerging Market and Developing Economies Downloads
Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Garima Vasishtha and Hakan Yilmazkuday
10622: Are the Poorest Catching Up ? Downloads
James Cust, Paul Collier and Lexis Rivera-Ballesteros
10621: An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa Downloads
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Clément Gorin, Shohei Nakamura, Mark Roberts and Benjamin P. Stewart
10620: Where Is Poverty Concentrated ? New Evidence Based on Internationally Consistent Urban and Poverty Measurements Downloads
Shohei Nakamura, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Robin Moellerherm, Charlotte Genevieve Julka Robert, Mark Roberts, Benjamin Stewart and Slava Yakubenko
10619: Counting People Exposed to, Vulnerable to, or at High Risk From Climate Shocks — A Methodology Downloads
Miki Khanh Doan, Ruth Hill, Stephane Hallegatte, Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Ben James Brunckhorst, Minh Nguyen, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez and Esther G. Naikal
10618: Changes in Household Dynamics in South Yemen Downloads
Phoebe Saad Wasfy Ishak, Alia Jane Aghajanian and Yashodhan Ghorpade
10617: Is Natural Capital a Complement to Human Capital ? Evidence from 46 Countries Downloads
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10616: Updating Poverty in Afghanistan Using the SWIFT-Plus Methodology Downloads
Oscar Eduardo Barriga Cabanillas, Parth Chawla, Silvia Redaelli and Nobuo Yoshida
10615: Building Public Support for Reducing Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Evidence across 12 Middle-Income Countries Downloads
Christopher Alexander Hoy, Yeon Soo Kim, Minh Nguyen, Mariano Ernesto Sosa and Sailesh Tiwari
10614: Reassessing the Impacts of Exports on Local Labor Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective — Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt Downloads
Pablo Antonio Tillan, Deeksha Kokas, Carlos Andre Bezerra De Goes and Gladys C. Lopez-Acevedo
10613: Too Rare to Dare ? Leveraging Household Surveys to Boost Research on Climate Migration Downloads
Calogero Carletto, Marco Letta, Pierluigi Montalbano, Adriana Paolantonio and Alberto Zezza
10612: Impacts of Extremist Ideologies on Refugees' Integration: Evidence from Afghan Refugees in Tajikistan Downloads
Laurent Bossavie, Sandra Rozo and Maria Jose Urbina Florez
10611: Forecasting Industrial Commodity Prices: Literature Review and a Model Suite Downloads
Francisco Arroyo Marioli, Jeetendra Khadan, Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge and Takefumi Yamazaki
10610: Improving Consumption-Based Tax Compliance: Evidence from Point of Sale Usage in Subnational Governments in Indonesia Downloads
Muhammad Khudadad Chattha, Prabaning Tyas, Naranggi Pramudya Soko and Raka Rizky Fadilla
10609: Trade and Infrastructure Integration in Africa Downloads
Lionel Fontagné, Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Siobhan Murray, Michele Ruta and Gianluca Santoni
10608: Indonesia's Informal Economy: Measurement, Evidence, and a Research Agenda Downloads
Christine Marie Jimenez Ablaza, Vinayak Alladi and Utz Pape
10607: Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net Downloads
Jeffrey Richard Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis and Harrison Mitchell
10606: Containing Tariff Evasion Downloads
Clement Xavier Frederik Anne, Cyril Romain Chalendard, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Bob Rijkers and Vincent Vicard
10605: How Have Gender Gaps in the Colombian Labor Market Changed during the Economic Recovery? Downloads
Maria Davalos, Diana Isabel Londono Aguirre and Daniel Medina Gaspar
10604: Economic Sentiments and Expectations in Sub-Saharan Africa in a Time of Multiple Shocks Downloads
Philip Randolph Wollburg, Thomas Patrick Bentze and Talip Kilic
10603: Digital Payments and the COVID-19 Shock: The Role of Preexisting Conditions in Banking, Infrastructure, Human Capabilities, and Digital Regulation Downloads
Robert J. Cull, Vivien Foster, Dean Jolliffe, Daniel Lederman, Davide Salvatore Mare and Malarvizhi Veerappan
10602: Making the Low-Income Country Debt Sustainability Framework Fit for Purpose Downloads
Indermit S. Gill and Brian R. Pinto
10601: Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade Downloads
Lucas Zavala, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Ryan Haygood, Tristan Reed and Jose Daniel Reyes
10600: Endogenous Institutions and Economic Policy Downloads
James Alan Robinson, Alexander Vostroknutov and Ekaterina Vostroknutova
10599: Alternative Paths for Yemen up to 2030: A CGE-Based Simulation Analysis Downloads
Hans Lofgren, Martín Cicowiez and Gianluca Mele
10598: MiDES: New Data and Facts from Local Procurement and Budget Execution in Brazil Downloads
Ricardo Dahis, Bernardo Ricca, Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda, Nathalia Sales and Lucas Nascimento Moreira
10597: Using Large Language Models for Qualitative Analysis can Introduce Serious Bias Downloads
Julian Ashwin, Aditya Chhabra and Vijayendra Rao
10596: The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan Downloads
Guadalupe Bedoya, Yulia Belyakova, Aidan Coville, Thomas Escande, Mohammad Isaqzadeh and Aminata Ndiaye
10595: Exports to Jobs: Morocco’s Trade Patterns and Local Labor Market Outcomes Downloads
Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Daniela Ruiz Zárate
10594: A Fish Cartel for Africa Downloads
Gabriel Englander and Christopher Costello
10593: Is US Trade Policy Reshaping Global Supply Chains ? Downloads
Caroline Freund, Aaditya Mattoo, Alen Mulabdic and Michele Ruta
10592: Assessing the Efficiency and Fairness of the Fit for 55 Package toward Net Zero Emissions under Different Revenue Recycling Schemes for Italy Downloads
Carlo Orecchia, Valerio Ferdinando Cala, Fabiana de Cristofaroa and Hasan Dudu
10591: What I Really Want: Policy Maker Views on Education in East Asia Pacific Downloads
Noah Yarrow, Paul Marie Michel Cahu, Mary Breeding and Rythia Afkar
10590: The Fine Line between Nudging and Nagging: Increasing Take-up Rates through Social Media Platforms Downloads
Andres Moya, Sandra Rozo and Maria Jose Urbina Florez
10589: Health Crisis, Mobility Restrictions, and Group Trade: Evidence from Small-Scale Cross-Border Transactions in the Great Lakes Region Downloads
John C. Keyser, Charles Kunaka and Peter Walkenhorst
10588: The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in Iraq Downloads
Beenish Amjad, Maynor Vinicio Cabrera and Lokendra Phadera
10587: Labor Market Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza Downloads
Jingyuan Deng, Nelly Elmallakh, Luca Flabbi and Roberta V. Gatti
10586: Informality in Indonesia: Levels, Trends, and Features Downloads
Indira Maulani Hapsari, Shu Yu, Utz Pape and Wael Mansour
10585: Tracing Pandemic Impacts in the Absence of Regular Survey Data: What Have We Learned from the World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys? Downloads
Ben James Brunckhorst, Yeon Soo Kim and Alexandru Cojocaru
10584: Business Size, Development, and Inequality in Latin America: A Tale of One Tail Downloads
Marcela Eslava, Marcela Melendez Arjona, Laura Daniela Tenjo Galvis and Nicolas Urdaneta
10583: Geospatial Analysis of Displacement in Afghanistan Downloads
Anais Dahmani Scuitti, Erwin Willem Yvonnick Leon Knippenberg, Walker Turnbull Kosmidou-Bradley and Johanna Lee Belanger
10582: Capital Controls in Emerging and Developing Economies and the Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy Downloads
Jongrim Ha, Haiqin Liu and John Rogers
10581: Trading in Clusters and the Future of Small-Scale Trade in the Borderlands of the Great Lakes Region of Africa Downloads
Célestin B. Bucekuderhwa, Charles Kunaka, Nyembezi Mvunga and Douglas Amuli Ibale
10580: Does Informality Depress Investments and Job Recovery ? Firm-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in South Asia Downloads
Arti Goswami Grover and Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez
10579: Do Shocks Perpetuate Disparities within and across Informal Firms ? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Asia Downloads
Arti Goswami Grover and Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez
10578: Assessing the Success of National Human Rights Action Plans through a Political Economy Lens: The Case of Chile Downloads
Paola Carolina Fajardo Heyward and Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva
10577: Reconceptualizing Global Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, with Illustration on Nigerian Data Downloads
Benoit Marie A Decerf and Kikè Fonton
10576: Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries Downloads
Eliana Carranza and David McKenzie
10575: The Labor Market Effects of Disability Benefit Loss Downloads
Anikó Bíró, Cecília Hornok, Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz and Ágota Scharle
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