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- 10674: Closing the gap: Effect of a gender quota on women's access to education in Afghanistan

- Rafiuddin Najam
- 10673: Missing Evidence: Tracking Academic Data Use around the World

- 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

- Shireen AlAzzawi, Hai-Anh Dang, Vladimir Hlasny, Ksenia Abanokova and Jere Behrman
- 10671: Estimating Economic Costs of Unhealthy Diets: A Proposed Methodology

- 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

- Sarah Mohammad Osman Wahby and Ragui A Assaad
- 10669: The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times

- Yoonyoung Cho and Teresa Sacro Molina
- 10668: Costing Disasters: Hedonic Pricing, Neighborhood Effects, and the Nepal Gorkha Earthquakes

- Vincent Floreani and Martin Rama
- 10667: Are Global Value Chains Women Friendly in Developing Countries ? Evidence from Firm-Level Data

- Marize Kalliny and Chahir Zaki
- 10666: COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA

- Maciej Jan Jakubowski, Tomasz Janusz Gajderowicz and Harry Patrinos
- 10665: Trade, Outsourcing, and the Environment

- 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 ?

- Akuffo Amankwah, Pauline Castaing, Nkechi Owoo and Amparo Palacios-Lopez
- 10663: Could Digital Inclusion Close the Gender Economic Gap in the MENA Region ?

- Mahmoud Mohieldin and Racha Ramadan
- 10662: Leveraging Big Data to Understand Women’s Mobility in Buenos Aires

- 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

- Najat El Mekkaoui, Sara Loukili, Yeganeh Fourouheshfar and Nada Eissa
- 10660: The Impacts of Disasters on African Agriculture: New Evidence from Micro-Data

- 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

- Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft
- 10658: Are Regional Fiscal Multipliers on EU Structural and Investment Fund Spending Large ? A Reassessment of the Evidence

- 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

- Monica Robayo-Abril and Maynor Vinicio Cabrera
- 10656: Correcting Sampling and Nonresponse Bias in Phone Survey Poverty Estimation Using Reweighting and Poverty Projection Models

- Kexin Zhang, Shinya Takamatsu and Nobuo Yoshida
- 10655: How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes ? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics

- Oyebola M. Okunogbe and Gabriel Tourek
- 10654: Can Effective Policy Implementation Alter Political Selection ? Evidence from Female Legislators in India

- S Anukriti, Rossella Calvi and Abhishek Chakravarty
- 10653: Unraveling the Factors behind Women's Empowerment in the Labor Market in Colombia

- 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

- 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

- Tara Bedi, Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein and Tigist Assefa Ketema
- 10650: Spatial Misallocation of Complementary Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Brazil

- 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

- Seidu Dauda, Georgiana Pop and Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias
- 10648: What Explains Global Inflation

- 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

- He He and Chaeyoung Kim
- 10646: The Effect of COVID-19 on the Gender Employment Gap in Egyptian Manufacturing

- Amirah El-Haddad and Phoebe W. Ishak
- 10645: The Trade-Growth Nexus: Evidence of Causality from Innovative Instruments for Trade

- Ibrahim Nana, Sephooko Ignatius Motelle and Susan K. Starnes
- 10644: Firms and Climate Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

- Ana Goicoechea and Megan Elizabeth Lang
- 10643: Impacts and Sources of Air Pollution in Tbilisi, Georgia

- 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

- Devaki Ghose, Eduardo Pinheiro Fraga and Ana Margarida Fernandes
- 10641: Government Support and Firm Performance during COVID-19

- 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

- 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

- Juliana Londoño-Vélez and Dario Tortarolo
- 10638: Preparatory School Years and Maternal Employment in Romania

- Monica Robayo-Abril and Britta Laurin Rude
- 10637: Leveraging Trade for More and Better Job Opportunities in Developing Countries: A Framework for Policy

- Ben Shepherd and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler
- 10636: Productive Longevity: What Can Work in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

- 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

- Deborah Elisabeth Winkler, Hagen Kruse, Luis Alejandro Aguilar Luna and Maryla Maliszewska
- 10634: Quantifying Economic Impacts of Trade Agreements with Heterogeneous Trade Elasticities

- Hiau Looi Kee and Alessandro Nicita
- 10633: Disruptive Technologies and Finance: An Analysis of Digital Startups in Africa

- Marcio Cruz, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez and Edgar Salgado Chavez
- 10632: Banking in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges in Volatile Times

- Thorsten Beck, Robert J. Cull, Davide Salvatore Mare and Patricio Valenzuela
- 10631: Data Gaps in Microdata in the Context of Forced Displacement

- Takaaki Masaki and B. Madson
- 10630: The Valuation of Flexible Work Arrangements: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Malaysia

- 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

- 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?

- David J. Mckenzie
- 10627: Malnourished but Not Destitute: The Spatial Interplay between Nutrition and Poverty in Madagascar

- Dunstan Matekenya, Francis Muamba Mulangu and David Newhouse
- 10626: Migration, families, and counterfactual families

- 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

- 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

- 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

- Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Garima Vasishtha and Hakan Yilmazkuday
- 10622: Are the Poorest Catching Up ?

- James Cust, Paul Collier and Lexis Rivera-Ballesteros
- 10621: An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

- 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

- 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

- 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

- Phoebe Saad Wasfy Ishak, Alia Jane Aghajanian and Yashodhan Ghorpade
- 10617: Is Natural Capital a Complement to Human Capital ? Evidence from 46 Countries

- World Bank
- 10616: Updating Poverty in Afghanistan Using the SWIFT-Plus Methodology

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- Laurent Bossavie, Sandra Rozo and Maria Jose Urbina Florez
- 10611: Forecasting Industrial Commodity Prices: Literature Review and a Model Suite

- 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

- Muhammad Khudadad Chattha, Prabaning Tyas, Naranggi Pramudya Soko and Raka Rizky Fadilla
- 10609: Trade and Infrastructure Integration in Africa

- Lionel Fontagné, Mathilde Sylvie Maria Lebrand, Siobhan Murray, Michele Ruta and Gianluca Santoni
- 10608: Indonesia's Informal Economy: Measurement, Evidence, and a Research Agenda

- Christine Marie Jimenez Ablaza, Vinayak Alladi and Utz Pape
- 10607: Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net

- Jeffrey Richard Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis and Harrison Mitchell
- 10606: Containing Tariff Evasion

- 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?

- 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

- 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

- 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

- Indermit S. Gill and Brian R. Pinto
- 10601: Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade

- Lucas Zavala, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Ryan Haygood, Tristan Reed and Jose Daniel Reyes
- 10600: Endogenous Institutions and Economic Policy

- James Alan Robinson, Alexander Vostroknutov and Ekaterina Vostroknutova
- 10599: Alternative Paths for Yemen up to 2030: A CGE-Based Simulation Analysis

- Hans Lofgren, Martín Cicowiez and Gianluca Mele
- 10598: MiDES: New Data and Facts from Local Procurement and Budget Execution in Brazil

- 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

- Julian Ashwin, Aditya Chhabra and Vijayendra Rao
- 10596: The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

- 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

- Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Daniela Ruiz Zárate
- 10594: A Fish Cartel for Africa

- Gabriel Englander and Christopher Costello
- 10593: Is US Trade Policy Reshaping Global Supply Chains ?

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- John C. Keyser, Charles Kunaka and Peter Walkenhorst
- 10588: The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in Iraq

- Beenish Amjad, Maynor Vinicio Cabrera and Lokendra Phadera
- 10587: Labor Market Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza

- Jingyuan Deng, Nelly 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 Kikè Fonton
- 10576: Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries

- Eliana Carranza and David McKenzie
- 10575: The Labor Market Effects of Disability Benefit Loss

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