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8034: Migration and cross-border financial flows

Maurice Kugler, Oren Levintal and Hillel Rapoport

8033: Is Poverty in Africa mostly chronic or transient ? evidence from synthetic panel data

Hai-Anh H. Dang, Andrew L. Dabalen, Hai-Anh H. Dang and Andrew L. Dabalen

8032: Can public works programs reduce youth crime ? evidence from Papua New Guinea's urban youth employment project

Oleksiy Ivaschenko, Darian Naidoo, David Newhouse and Sonya M. Sultan

8031: Leveraging the potential of the services sector to support accelerated growth in Senegal

Matthias Cinyabuguma, Djibril Ndoye and Olumide Olusola Taiwo

8030: Implications of minimum wage increases on labor market dynamics lessons for emerging economies

Ximena Del Carpio and Laura M. Pabon

8029: Arithmetics and politics of domestic resource mobilization

Kimberly Blair Bolch, Lidia Ceriani and Luis Lopez-Calva

8028: Re-evaluating microfinance: evidence from propensity score matching

Inna Cintina and Inessa Love

8027: Heterogeneous technology diffusion and Ricardian trade patterns

William Kerr

8026: The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program: an illustration from PROGRESA/oportunidades

Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman and Afia Tasneem

8025: Sustainability of demand responsive approaches to rural water supply: the case of Kerala

Luis Alberto Andres, Saubhik Deb, Martin P. Gambrill, Elisa Giannone, George Joseph, Pramod Kannath, Manish Kumar, P.K. Kurian, Rajesh Many and Abdu Muwonge

8024: Precarious drop: reassessing patterns of female labor force participation in India

Luis Alberto Andres, Basab Dasgupta, George Joseph, Vinoj Abraham and Maria C. Correia

8023: Entry and exit, multi-product firms, and allocative distortions

Roberto Fattal Jaef

8022: Neighborhood effects in integrated social policies

Matteo Bobba and Jeremie D. Gignoux

8021: Relief from usury: impact of a community-based microcredit program in rural India

Vivian Hoffmann, Vijayendra Rao, Vaishnavi Surendra and Upamanyu Datta

8020: Savings, financial development, and economic growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt revisited

Khaled Hussein, Mahmoud Mohieldin and Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick Rostom

8019: Urbanization and development: is Latin America and the Caribbean different from the rest of the world?

Mark Roberts, Brian Blankespoor, Chandan Deuskar and Benjamin P. Stewart

8018: Ageing poorly?: accounting for the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012

Francisco Ferreira, Sergio Firpo and Julian Messina

8017: Gender-neutral inheritance laws, family structure, and women's status in India

Sulagna Mookerjee

8016: The distributive impact of terms of trade shocks

Maurizio Bussolo and Patrizia Luongo

8015: An employment guarantee as risk insurance ? assessing the effects of the NREGS on agricultural production decisions

Esther Gehrke

8014: Can parental migration reduce petty corruption in education ?

Lisa Sofie Hockel, Manuel Santos Silva and Tobias Stohr

8013: Improving the resilience of Peru's road network to climate events

Julie Rozenberg, Cecilia M. Briceno-Garmendia, Xijie Lu, Laura Bonzanigo and Harry Edmund Moroz

8012: Leaving, staying, or coming back ? migration decisions during the northern Mali conflict

Johannes G. Hoogeveen, Mariacristina Rossi and Dario Sansone

8011: How effective are active labor market policies in developing countries ? a critical review of recent evidence

David McKenzie

8010: Brexit: trade governance and legal implications for third countries

Martin Molinuevo

8009: All these worlds are yours, except India: the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal

Fabrice Defever, José-Daniel Reyes, Alejandro Riano and Gonzalo Varela

8008: Challenges in assessing the costs of household cooking energy in lower-income countries

Michael Toman and Randall Bluffstone

8007: Economic upgrading through global value chain participation: which policies increase the value added gains ?

Victor Kummritz, Daria Taglioni, Deborah Elisabeth Winkler, Victor Kummritz, Daria Taglioni and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler

8006: Assessing the role of international organizations in the development of the social enterprise sector

Angela Hoyos and Diego Angel-Urdinola

8005: Trade policy and redistribution when preferences are non-homothetic

Quy-Toan Do and Andrei Levchenko

8004: The motherhood penalty and female employment in urban India

Maitreyi B Das and Ieva Zumbyte

8003: Is there enough redistribution ?

Maya Eden

8002: Do foreign investors underperform ? An empirical decomposition into style and flows

Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales, Fredy Pulga, Jose Vasquez, Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales, Fredy Pulga and Jose Vasquez

8001: Are poor individuals mainly found in poor households ? evidence using nutrition data for Africa

Caitlin Brown, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

8000: Measuring skills in developing countries

Rachid Laajaj and Karen Macours

7999: Effects of public policy on child labor: current knowledge, gaps, and implications for program design

Ana Dammert, Jacobus Joost De Hoop, Eric Mvukiyehe and Furio Rosati

7998: Financial information in Colombia

Xavier Gine, Nidia Garcia, Jose Gomez-Gonzalez, Xavier Gine, Nidia Garcia and Jose Gomez-Gonzalez

7997: Municipal asset management in China's small cities and towns

Alessandra Campanaro, Joanna Mclean Masic, Olga Kaganova, Hongye Fan, Hazem Abdelfattah, Alessandra Campanaro and Joanna Mclean Masic

7996: Who should be at the top of bottom-up development ? a case study of the national rural livelihoods mission in Rajasthan, India

Shareen Joshi and Vijayendra Rao

7995: Deliberative democracy in India

Ramya Parthasarathy and Vijayendra Rao

7994: For India's rural poor, growing towns matter more than growing cities

John Gibson, Gaurav Datt, Rinku Murgai and Martin Ravallion

7993: Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs: a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya

David J. Mckenzie, Susana Puerto, David J. Mckenzie and Susana Puerto

7992: Antidiscrimination law and shared prosperity: an analysis of the legal framework of six economies and their impact on the equality of opportunities of ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities

Elaine Rene Elizabeth Panter, Tanya Primiani, Tazeen Hasan and Eduardo Calderon Pontaza

7991: Regional dimensions of recent weakness in investment: drivers, investment needs and policy responses

Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze, Gerard Kambou, Derek Hung Chiat Chen, Boaz Nandwa, Yohei Okawa and Dana Lauren Vorisek

7990: Weakness in investment growth: causes, implications and policy responses

Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge, Lei Sandy Ye and Ergys Islamaj

7989: Design of a multi-stage stratified sample for poverty and welfare monitoring with multiple objectives: a Bangladesh case study

Faizuddin Ahmed, Dipankar Roy, Monica Yanez Pagans and Nobuo Yoshida

7988: Are tobacco taxes really regressive ? evidence from Chile

Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky and Francisco Jalles Meneses

7987: Rising incomes and inequality of access to infrastructure among Latin American households

Marianne Fay and Stephane Straub

7986: Seasonality of rural finance

Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad and Shakeel Badruddoza

7985: Stocktaking of global forced displacement data

Zara Inga Sarzin

7984: Agent banking in a highly under-developed financial sector: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Robert Cull, Xavier Gine, Sven Harten and Anca Bogdana Rusu

7983: Special study on benchmarking the quality of project economic analysis for the South Asia Region

Kenechukwu Maria Ezemenari and Xiao Ye

7982: The direct and indirect costs of tax treaty policy: evidence from Ukraine

Oleksii Balabushko, Sebastian Beer, Jan Loeprick and Felipe Pinto Vallada

7981: Horizontal depth: a new database on the content of preferential trade agreements

Claudia Hofmann, Alberto Osnago and Michele Ruta

7980: Public mosquito abatement: a cluster randomized experiment

Josselin Thuilliez and Yves Dumont

7979: Agriculture in Africa -- telling myths from facts: a synthesis

Luc Christiaensen

7978: Does vertical specialization increase productivity ?

Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo, Michele Ruta, Ileana Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo and Michele Ruta

7977: A firm of one's own: experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice

Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Andrew Peter Brudevold-Newman, Maddalena Honorati, Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

7976: How is the internet changing labor market arrangements ? evidence from telecommunications reforms in Europe

Emmanuel Vazquez and Hernan Winkler

7975: Growth (but not only) is good for the poor: some cross-country evidence to promote growth and shared prosperity in Haiti

Kassia Belo Da Silva Antoine, Raju Singh and Konstantin Wacker

7974: Assessing the accuracy of electricity demand forecasts in developing countries

Jevgenijs Steinbuks

7973: Dynamics of child development: analysis of a longitudinal cohort in a very low income country

Emanuela Galasso, Ann Weber and Lia C. H. Fernald

7972: Are capital flows fickle? Increasingly ? and does the answer still depend on type?

Barry Eichengreen, Poonam Gupta and Oliver Masetti

7971: Government guarantees, transparency, and bank risk-taking

Tito Cordella, Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Robert Marquez

7970: Recovery from conflict: lessons of success

Hannes Mueller, Lavinia Piemontese and Augustin Tapsoba

7969: Estimating poverty using cell phone data: evidence from Guatemala

Marco Hernandez, Lingzi Hong, Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Enrique Frias-Martinez

7968: Distribution of consumption expenditure in East Asia

La-Bhus Jirasavetakul and Christoph Lakner

7967: Foreign banks and trade: bridging the information gap ?

Francesca de Nicola and Shawn Tan

7966: Toward labor market policy 2.0: the potential for using online job-portal big data to inform labor market policies in India

Shinsaku Nomura, Saori Imaizumi, Ana Carolina Areias, Futoshi Yamauchi, Shinsaku Nomura, Saori Imaizumi, Ana Carolina Areias and Futoshi Yamauchi

7965: Push and pull: a study of international migration from Nepal

Maheshwor Shrestha

7964: Services in the trans-pacific partnership: what would be lost?

Batshur Gootiiz, Aaditya Mattoo, Batshur Gootiiz and Aaditya Mattoo

7963: The impact of mass bed net distribution programs on politics: evidence from Tanzania

Kevin Croke

7962: The global role of the U.S. economy: linkages, policies and spillovers

Ayhan Kose, Csilla Lakatos, Franziska Ohnsorge and Marc Stocker

7961: Evaluation of an adolescent development program for girls in Tanzania

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Munshi Sulaiman and Venus Yam

7960: The impact of mining on spatial inequality recent evidence from Africa

Tony Addison, Amadou Boly and Anthony Mveyange

7959: Personality traits, technology adoption, and technical efficiency: evidence from smallholder rice farms in Ghana

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Derick Bowen and Klaus W. Deininger

7958: The changing structure of Africa's economies

Xinshen Diao, Kenneth Harttgen and Margaret McMillan

7957: Impact of oil price fluctuations on financial markets since 2014

Ha Minh Nguyen, Huong Nguyen and Anh Pham

7956: What do teachers know and do ? does it matter ? evidence from primary schools in Africa

Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, Gayle Martin, Ezequiel Molina, Christophe Rockmore, Brian Stacy, Jakob Svensson and Waly Wane

7955: Social learning about environmental innovations: experimental analysis of adoption timing

Julian C Jamison, David Owens and Glenn Woroch

7954: Can solar lanterns improve youth academic performance ? experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Yuya Kudo, Abu Shonchoy and Kazushi Takahashi

7953: Firms'export decisions: demand trumps financial shocks

Francesca de Nicola and Shawn Tan

7952: Long-term growth scenarios for Bangladesh

Rishabh Sinha

7951: Costing household surveys for monitoring progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity

Talip Kilic, Umar Serajuddin, Hiroki Uematsu and Nobuo Yoshida

7950: Breaking into tradables: urban form and urban function in a developing city

Anthony Venables

7949: Taxing the good ? distortions, misallocation, and productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Xavier Cirera, Roberto N. Fattal Jaef, Hibret Belete Maemir, Xavier Cirera, Roberto N. Fattal Jaef and Hibret Belete Maemir

7948: How is the slowdown affecting households in Latin America and the Caribbean ?

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, Raul Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, German Jeremias Reyes and Liliana Sousa

7947: Deep integration and UK-EU trade relations

Alen Mulabdic, Alberto Osnago and Michele Ruta

7946: Death scares: how potential work-migrants infer mortality rates from migrant deaths

Maheshwor Shrestha

7945: Get rich or die tryin': perceived earnings, perceived mortality rate and the value of a statistical life of potential work-migrants from Nepal

Maheshwor Shrestha

7944: Pedagogy versus school readiness: the impact of a randomized reading instruction intervention and community-based playgroup intervention on early grade reading outcomes in Tonga

Kevin Macdonald, Sally Ann Brinkman, Wendy Jarvie, Myrna Machuca-Sierra, Kristen Andrew Mcdonall, Souhila Messaoud-Galusi, Siosiana Tapueluelu and Binh Thanh Vu

7943: Gender-differentiated impacts of tenure insecurity on agricultural performance in Malawi's customary tenure systems

Klaus W. Deininger, Fang Xia and Stein Holden

7942: Can media interventions reduce gender gaps in political participation after civil war ? evidence from a field experiment in rural Liberia

Eric Mvukiyehe

7941: Reforming village-level governance via horizontal pressure: evidence from an experiment in Zimbabwe

Kate Baldwin, Shylock Muyengwa and Eric Mvukiyehe

7940: Conditionality as targeting?: participation and distributional effects of conditional cash transfers

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

7939: The impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Chile

Sandra Natalia Martinez Aguilar, Alan Fuchs Tarlovsky, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Giselle Eugenia Del Carmen Hasbun

7938: On the structural transformation of rural Africa

Christopher Barrett, Luc Christiaensen, Megan Britney Sheahan and Abebe Abebe

7937: Foreign banks and international transmission of monetary policy: evidence from the syndicated loan market

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint Horvath and Harry Huizinga

7936: Can tax incentives for electronic payments reduce the shadow economy?: Korea's attempt to reduce underreporting in retail businesses

Myung Jae Sung, Rajul Awasthi and Hyung Chul Lee

7935: With a little help: shocks, agricultural income, and welfare in Uganda

Ruth Hill and Carolina Mejia-Mantilla