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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

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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