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8197: Flies without borders: lessons from Chennai on improving India's municipal public health services

Monica Das Gupta, Rajib Dasgupta, P. Kugananthan, Vijayendra Rao, Trikkur V. Somanathan and K.N. Tewari

8196: Export quality in advanced and developing economies: evidence from a new data set

Christian Henn, Chris Papageorgiou, Jose Romero and Nikola L. Spatafora

8195: Short-term impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom's export of goods

Hiau Looi Kee, Alessandro Nicita, Hiau Looi Kee and Alessandro Nicita

8194: Financial globalization: a glass half empty ?

Sergio Schmukler and Facundo Abraham

8193: Why secondary towns can be important for poverty reduction -- a migrant's perspective

Bert Lodewijk M Ingelaere, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Ravi Kanbur, Bert Lodewijk M Ingelaere, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

8192: Could the debate be over ? errors in farmer-reported production and their implications for the inverse scale-productivity relationship in Uganda

Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic and David Lobell

8191: Optimal targeting under budget constraints in a humanitarian context

Chiara Gigliarano and Paolo Verme

8190: Preferential trade agreements and global value chains: theory, evidence, and open questions

Michele Ruta

8189: Shelter from the storm ? household-level impacts of, and responses to, the 2015 floods in Malawi

Nancy Mccarthy, Talip Kilic, Alejandro De La Fuente and Josh Brubaker

8188: Natural disaster damage indices based on remotely sensed data: an application to Indonesia

Emmanuel Skoufias, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit

8187: The impact of digital technologies on routine tasks: do labor policies matter?

Rita Almeida, Carlos H. L. Corseuil and Jennifer Poole

8186: Moving out and up: panel data evidence on migration and poverty in Uganda

Edouard Romeo Mensah and Michael O'Sullivan

8185: A bit far ? geography, international economic agreements, and foreign direct investment: evidence from emerging markets

Laura Gomez-Mera and Gonzalo Varela

8184: When is the government transfer multiplier large ?

Eric Giambattista and Steven Michael Pennings

8183: Investigating the transmission channels behind Dutch disease effects: lessons from Mongolia using a CGE model

Tehmina Shaukat Khan and Jan Gottschalk

8182: Child schooling and child work in the presence of a partial education subsidy

Jacobus Joost De Hoop, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal and Furio Rosati

8181: Bridging the intention-behavior gap ? the effect of plan-making prompts on job search and employment

Simon Martin Abel, Rulof Petrus Burger, Eliana Carranza and Patrizio Piraino

8180: Labor market discrimination and sorting: evidence from South Africa

Abel Simon Martin

8179: The many faces of deprivation: a multidimensional approach to poverty in Armenia

Diana Martirosova, Osman Kaan Inan, Moritz Meyer and Nistha Sinha

8178: Politics, public works and poverty: evidence from the Bangladesh employment generation programme for the poorest

Iffath Anwar Sharif and Ummul Hasanath Ruthbah

8177: Delivering education to the underserved through a public-private partnership program in Pakistan

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, David S. Blakeslee, Matthew Hoover, Leigh Linden, Dhushyanth Raju and Stephen P. Ryan

8176: Will elders provide for their grandchildren ?: unconditional cash transfers and educational expenditures in Bolivia

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Alberto Chong, Fernando Rios-Avila and Monica Yanez Pagans

8175: Longevity and lifetime education: global evidence from 919 surveys

Mohammad Mainul Hoque, Elizabeth King, Claudio Montenegro and Peter Orazem

8174: Modal choice between rail and road transportation: evidence from Tanzania

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys, Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu, Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys and Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu

8173: Rail transport and firm productivity: evidence from Tanzania

Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys, Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu, Atsushi Iimi, Richard Martin Humphreys and Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu

8172: Does arsenic-contaminated drinking water limit early childhood development in Bangladesh ?

Sabrina Sharmin Haque, George Joseph and Nazia Sultana Moqueet

8171: Revisiting the effect of food aid on conflict: a methodological caution

Paul J. Christian and Christopher Barrett

8170: Welfare-consistent global poverty measures

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

8169: The impact of strengthening agricultural extension services: evidence from Ethiopia

Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Ezequiel Molina and Julia Vaillant

8168: The nature of trade and growth linkages

Tatiana Didier Brandao and Magali Pinat

8167: Tracing back the weather origins of human welfare: evidence from Mozambique

Javier Eduardo Baez Ramirez, German Daniel Caruso and Chiyu Niu

8166: Buses, houses or cash ? socio-economic, spatial and environmental consequences of reforming public transport subsidies in Buenos Aires

Paolo Avner, Shomik Raj Mehndiratta, Vincent Viguie and Stephane Hallegatte

8165: Assessing forecast uncertainty: an information Bayesian approach

Fabian Mendez Ramos

8164: The poverty implications of alternative tax reforms: results from a numerical application to Pakistan

Andrew Feltenstein, Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina, David Newhouse and Gohar Sedrakyan

8163: Peer effects in the demand for property rights: experimental evidence from urban Tanzania

Matthew Collin

8162: Looking into the performance-based financing black box: evidence from an impact evaluation in the health sector in Cameroon

Damien de Walque, Paul Jacob Robyn, Hamadou Saidou, Gaston Sorgho and Maria Ward Steenland

8161: Does financial education impact financial literacy and financial behavior, and if so, when ?

Tim Kaiser and Lukas Menkhoff

8160: Online exports and the wage gap

Marcio Cruz, Emmanuel Milet and Marcelo Olarreaga

8159: Understanding the interactions between emissions trading systems and renewable energy standards using a multi-regional CGE model of China

Ying Fan, Jie Wu, Govinda R. Timilsina and Yan Xia

8158: Reducing traffic congestion in Beirut: an empirical analysis of selected policy options

Alex Anas, Sayan De Sarkar, Maya Abou Zeid, Govinda R. Timilsina and Ziad Salim El Nakat

8157: A cross-country database of fiscal space

Ayhan Kose, Sergio Andres Kurlat, Franziska Ohnsorge and Naotaka Sugawara

8156: Through the looking glass: can classroom observation and coaching improve teacher performance in Brazil ?

Barbara Bruns, Leandro Oliveira Costa and Nina Menezes Cunha

8155: Can business input improve the effectiveness of worker training? evidence from Brazil's Pronatec-MDIC

Stephen O'Connell, Lucas Ferreira Mation, Joao Bevilaqua Teixeira Basto and Mark Andrew Dutz

8154: Surveys, big data, and experiments: how can we best learn about LGBTI development outcomes ?

Dominik Koehler and Nicholas Menzies

8153: Natural resources, institutions, and economic growth: the case of Nigeria

Anna Raggl

8152: Rental regulation and its consequences on measures of well-being in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Gabriel Lara Ibarra, Vibhuti Mendiratta and Tara Vishwanath

8151: A proximity-based approach to labor mobility in CGE models with an application to Sub-Saharan Africa

Hans Lofgren and Martín Cicowiez

8150: Poverty-specific purchasing power parities in Africa

Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Tefera Bekele Degefu and Inyoung Song

8149: Regulating water and sanitation network services accounting for institutional and informational constraints

Daniel Camos and Antonio Estache

8148: Measuring women's agency

Aletheia Donald, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Jeannie Ruth Annan, Kathryn Falb and Markus Goldstein

8147: Measuring time use in development settings

Greg Seymour, Hazel Jean Malapit and Agnes Quisumbing

8146: Measuring ownership, control, and use of assets

Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran and Talip Kilic

8145: Productivity in the non-oil sector in Nigeria: firm-level evidence

Santiago Herrera and Wilfried Kouamé

8144: Arm's-length trade: a source of post-crisis trade weakness

Csilla Lakatos and Franziska Ohnsorge

8143: Pension funds and the impact of switching regulation on long-term investment

Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales, Olga Fuentes, Pamela Searle and Fiona Elizabeth Stewart

8142: Predicting school dropout with administrative data: new evidence from Guatemala and Honduras

Melissa Adelman, Francisco Haimovich, Andrés Ham and Emmanuel Vazquez

8141: Can job training decrease women?s self-defeating biases ? experimental evidence from Nigeria

Kevin Croke, Markus Goldstein and Alaka Holla

8140: Evidence for a presource curse ? oil discoveries, elevated expectations, and growth disappointments

James Cust and David Mihalyi

8139: Distributional impact analysis: toolkit and illustrations of impacts beyond the average treatment effect

Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Luca Bittarello, Jonathan Martin Villars Davis and Nikolas Karl Mittag

8138: Mission impossible? exploring the promise of multiple imputation for predicting missing GPS-based land area measures in household surveys

Talip Kilic, Ismael Yacoubou Djima and Calogero Carletto

8137: Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid

Brandon de la Cuesta, Helen V. Milner, Daniel Lafayette Nielson and Stephen Knack

8136: Pension funds, capital markets, and the power of diversification

Fiona Elizabeth Stewart, Romain Despalins and Inna Remizova

8135: Global inequality in a more educated world

Syud Ahmed, Maurizio Bussolo, Marcio Cruz, Delfin Go and Osorio-Rodarte,Israel

8134: Land productivity and plot size: is measurement error driving the inverse relationship ?

Sam Desiere and Dean Jolliffe

8133: Assessing the global economic and poverty effects of antimicrobial resistance

Syud Amer Ahmed, Enis Baris, Delfin Sia Go, Hans Lofgren, Osorio-Rodarte,Israel, Karen E. Thierfelder, Syud Amer Ahmed, Enis Baris, Delfin Sia Go, Hans Lofgren, Osorio-Rodarte,Israel and Karen E. Thierfelder

8132: Trains, trade and transaction costs: how does domestic trade by rail affect market prices of Malawi agricultural commodities ?

Wouter Zant

8131: Whose power gets cut ? using high-frequency satellite images to measure power supply irregularity

Brian Min, Zachary O'Keeffe and Fan Zhang

8130: The impact of electricity shortages on firm productivity: evidence from Pakistan

Corbett Alden Grainger and Fan Zhang

8129: The nexus of energy supply and human health

Govinda R. Timilsina

8128: Exchange rate and inflation dynamics in Zambia

Lionel Joshua Roger, Gregory Smith and Oliver Morrissey

8127: Farm size and productivity: a"direct-inverse-direct"relationship

Sara Savastano, Pasquale L. Scandizzo, Sara Savastano and Pasquale L. Scandizzo

8126: Services trade and global value chains

Cecilia Heuser, Aaditya Mattoo, Cecilia Heuser and Aaditya Mattoo

8125: Willing but unable ? short-term experimental evidence on parent empowerment and school quality

Elizabeth Ruth Beasley, Elise Huillery, Elizabeth Ruth Beasley and Elise Huillery

8124: Understanding the impact of windstorms on economic activity from night lights in Central America

Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Juan Jose Miranda Montero, Hongrui Zhang, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Juan Jose Miranda Montero and Hongrui Zhang

8123: Approximating income distribution dynamics using aggregate data

Aart Kraay and Roy van der Weide

8122: Tax administration practices and firms? perceptions of corruption: evidence from Europe and Central Asia

B. Ponomariov, Oleksii Balabushko, Gregory Kisunko, B. Ponomariov, Oleksii Balabushko and Gregory Kisunko

8121: "Create"or"buy": internal vs. external sources of innovation and firm productivity

Jieun Choi and Jieun Choi

8120: Unheard voices: the challenge of inducing women's civic speech

Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao, Nethra Palaniswamy, Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao and Nethra Palaniswamy

8119: Deliberative inequality: a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies

Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao, Nethra Palaniswamy, Ramya Parthasarathy, Vijayendra Rao and Nethra Palaniswamy

8118: The effect of local governance on firm productivity and resource allocation: evidence from Vietnam

Shawn Weiming Tan, Trang Thu Tran, Shawn Weiming Tan and Trang Thu Tran

8117: On the predictability of growth

Matthieu Claudio Ascagne Cristelli, Andrea Tacchella, Masud Z. Cader, Kirstin Ingrid Roster and Luciano Pietronero

8116: Education and health services in Uganda: quality of inputs, user satisfaction, and community welfare levels

Clarence Tsimpo, Alvin Etang Ndip and Quentin Wodon

8115: The effects of health insurance within families: experimental evidence from Nicaragua

Anne Fitzpatrick and Rebecca Thornton

8114: The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment: firm-level evidence for a global sample of cities

José-Daniel Reyes, Mark Roberts and Lixin Xu

8113: Biased policy professionals

Sheheryar Banuri, Stefan Dercon and Varun Gauri

8112: Well begun, but aiming higher: a review of Vietnam's education trends in the past 20 years and emerging challenges

Hai-Anh Dang and Paul Glewwe

8111: Beyond income poverty: nonmonetary dimensions of poverty in Uganda

Alvin Etang Ndip and Clarence Tsimpo

8110: Does the adoption of complex software impact employment composition and the skill content of occupations ? evidence from Chilean firms

Rita Kullberg Almeida, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Mariana Viollaz, Rita Kullberg Almeida, Ana Margarida Fernandes and Mariana Viollaz

8109: Are caste categories misleading ? the relationship between gender and Jati in three Indian states

Shareen Joshi, Nishtha Kochhar and Vijayendra Rao

8108: Cyclicality of fiscal policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: magnitude and evolution

Cesar Calderon, Chuhan-Pole,Punam and Lopez-Monti,Rafael Matias

8107: Fast, easy, and cheap job matching: social networks in Bangladesh

Norihiko Matsuda and Shinsaku Nomura

8106: Estimating the welfare costs of reforming the Iraq public distribution system: a mixed demand approach

Nandini Krishnan, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Racha Ramadan

8105: Employment multipliers over the business cycle

Ha Nguyen and Jiaming Soh

8104: But ? what is the poverty rate today? testing poverty nowcasting methods in Latin America and the Caribbean

German Daniel Caruso, Leonardo Ramiro Lucchetti, Eduardo Malasquez, Thiago Scot and R. Castañeda

8103: Scaling up distributed solar in emerging markets: the case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Dalia Abdelhamid Mahmoud Sakr, Joern Torsten Huenteler, Tyeler Marissa Matsuo and Ashish Khanna

8102: Heterogeneous effects of rural electrification: evidence from Bangladesh

Hussain A. Samad and Fan Zhang

8101: Bureaucratic blockages: water, civil servants, and community in Tanzania

Juli Bailey

8100: Should emerging markets worry about U.S. monetary policy announcements ?

Poonam Gupta, Oliver Masetti and David Rosenblatt

8099: Multidimensional poverty in the Philippines, 2004-13: do choices for weighting, identification and aggregation matter ?

Gaurav Datt

8098: Do individual investors ignore transaction costs ?

Deniz Anginer, Snow Xue Han and Celim Yildizhan