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10587: Labor Market Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza

Jingyuan Deng, Nelly Youssef Louis William Elmallakh, Luca Flabbi and Roberta V. Gatti

10586: Informality in Indonesia: Levels, Trends, and Features

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?

Ben James Brunckhorst, Yeon Soo Kim and Alexandru Cojocaru

10584: Business Size, Development, and Inequality in Latin America: A Tale of One Tail

Marcela Eslava, Marcela Melendez Arjona, Laura Daniela Tenjo Galvis and Nicolas Urdaneta

10583: Geospatial Analysis of Displacement in Afghanistan

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

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

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

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

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

Paola Carolina Fajardo Heyward and Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva

10577: Reconceptualizing Global Multidimensional Poverty Measurement, with Illustration on Nigerian Data

Benoit Marie A Decerf and Kike Yra Fonton

10576: Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries

Eliana Carranza and David J. Mckenzie

10575: The Labor Market Effects of Disability Benefit Loss

Anikó Bíró, Cecília Hornok, Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz and Ágota Scharle

10574: Training Microentrepreneurs over Zoom: Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Elwyn Adriaan Robin Davies, Peter William Deffebach, Leonardo Iacovone and David J. Mckenzie

10573: Effect of a Lottery Intervention on Gender-Based Violence among Female Sex Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Results from a Randomized Trial

Rebecca Hémono, Marianna Balampama, Damien B. C. M. De Walque, Sandra Irene Mccoy and William Dow

10572: Influence of COVID-19 on Female Sex Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

Marianna Balampama, Damien B. C. M. De Walque, William Dow and Rebecca Hémono

10571: Effects of a Lottery Incentive on Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Incidence among Female Sex Workers in Tanzania: Results from the RESPECT II Randomized Trial

Marianna Balampama, Damien B. C. M. De Walque, William Dow and Rebecca Hémono

10570: Fiscal Policy Effects on Poverty and Inequality in Cambodia

Wendy Karamba, Michal Myck, Kajetan Wladyslaw Trzcinski and Kimsun Tong

10569: Inequality of Opportunity and Investment Choices

J. Michelle Brock and Maurizio Bussolo

10568: How to Deal with Exchange Rate Risk in Infrastructure and Other Long-Lived Projects

Luciano de Castro, Claudio R. Frischtak and Arthur Rodrigues

10567: Rebel with a Cause: Effects of a Gender Norms Intervention for Adolescents in Somalia

Rajdev Kaur Brar, Niklas Buehren, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Munshi Sulaiman

10566: Corruption as a Push and Pull Factor of Migration Flows: Evidence from European Countries

Andrea Bernini, Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez and Mattia Makovec

10565: Identifying Skills Needs in Vietnam: The Survey of Detailed Skills

Julia Granata, Harry Edmund Moroz and Nga Thi Nguyen

10564: Policy Uncertainty and Aggregate Fluctuations: Evidence from Emerging and Developed Economies

Haroon Mumtaz and Franz Ruch

10563: Savings Facilitation or Capital Injection ? Impacts and Spillovers of Livelihood Interventions in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire

Alicia C. Marguerie and Patrick Premand

10562: The Resilience of SMEs and Large Firms in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Decomposition Analysis

Mohammad Amin, Filip Jolevski and Asif Islam

10561: The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad

Remi Jedwab, Federico Haslop, Roman David Zarate Vasquez and Carlos Rodriguez Castelan

10560: Women’s Empowerment and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Burkina Faso

Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema and Monsoi Kenneth Colombiano Kponou

10559: Machine Learning Imputation of High Frequency Price Surveys in Papua New Guinea

Bo Andree and Utz Pape

10558: Could Sustainability-Linked Bonds Incentivize Lower Deforestation in Brazil’s Legal Amazon ?

Dieter Wang, Bryan O'Reilly Gurhy, Marek Hanusch and Philipp Kollenda

10557: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Firm Performance in Central Asia: The Role of Export Links and Digital Gains

Nicolo Dalvit, Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias, Martin Melecký and Nithya Srinivasan

10556: Masters of Disasters: The Heterogeneous Effects of a Crisis on Micro-Sized Firms

Arlan Zandro Ilagan Brucal and Arti Goswami Grover

10555: The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

Abhishek Arora, Siddharth George, Vijayendra Rao and Mr Sharan

10554: Anticipation, Disappointment and Adaptation: Evidence from a Home Upgrading Project

Xavier Gine, Meritxell Martinez Ruiz and Virginia Melo

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