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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

8097: Prices, Engel curves, and time-space deflation: impacts on poverty and inequality in Vietnam

John Gibson, Trinh Le and Bonggeun Kim

8096: Rural non-farm employment and household welfare: evidence from Malawi

Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Lenis Liverpool-Tasie, Alejandro De La Fuente and Rui Benfica

8095: Soft skills for hard constraints: evidence from high-achieving female farmers

Joao Montalvao, Michael Dr. Frese, Markus Goldstein and Talip Kilic

8094: Cities, slums, and early child growth: empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Dhushyanth Raju, Kyoung Yang Kim, Quynh T. Nguyen and Ramesh Govindaraj

8093: How important are spillovers from major emerging markets ?

Raju Huidrom, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge

8092: Job fairs: matching firms and workers in a field experiment in Ethiopia

Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Redmond Quinn and Forhad Shilpi

8091: Financial globalization and market volatility: an empirical appraisal

Tito Cordella and Anderson Ospino Rojas

8090: On-the-job training: returns, barriers to provision, and policy implications

Priyam Saraf

8089: Spatial autocorrelation panel regression: agricultural production and transport connectivity

Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You, Wood-Sichra,Ulrike, Atsushi Iimi, Liangzhi You and Wood-Sichra,Ulrike

8088: Port rail connectivity and agricultural production: evidence from a large sample of farmers in Ethiopia

Atsushi Iimi, Haileyesus Adamtei, James Markland and Eyasu Tsehaye

8087: Beyond dualism: agricultural productivity, small towns, and structural change in Bangladesh

M. Shahe Emran, Forhad J. Shilpi, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi

8086: Full-time teachers, students, and curriculum: the single-shift model in Rio de Janeiro

Tassia De Souza Cruz, Andre Loureiro and Eduardo Sa

8085: The labor market effects of financial crises: the role of temporary contracts in central and western Europe

Siddharth Sharma and Hernan Winkler

8084: Colombo: exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to floods

Archana Mahesh Patankar

8083: Information technology and provision of national identification cards by the Bolivian police: evidence from two randomized natural field experiments

Alberto Chong, Carlos Machicado Salas and Monica Yanez Pagans

8082: Credit composition, output composition, and external balances

Roumeen Islam

8081: A review of the anthropological literature on the civil service

Colin Brewster Hoag and Matthew Hull

8080: How do women fare in rural non-farm economy ?

Habtamu Neda Fuje

8079: In the mind, the household, or the market ? concepts and measurement of women's economic empowerment

Louise Fox and Carolina Romero

8078: Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets: evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries

Stephen Knack, Nataliya Biletska and Kanishka Kacker

8077: Does energy efficiency promote economic growth?: evidence from a multi-country and multi-sector panel data set

Ashish Rajbhandari and Fan Zhang

8076: Energy prices and international trade: incorporating input-output linkages

H. Ron Chan, Edward John Matlock Manderson and Fan Zhang

8075: Predicting conflict

Bledi Celiku and Aart Kraay

8074: Is consanguinity an impediment to improving human development outcomes ?

Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John Giles and Harold Alderman

8073: Societal poverty: a relative and relevant measure

Dean Jolliffe and Espen Beer Prydz

8072: Perceptions of distributive justice in Latin America during a period of falling inequality

German Jeremias Reyes and Leonardo Carlos Gasparini

8069: Where to create jobs to reduce poverty: cities or towns ?

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt, Ravi Kanbur, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

8068: The rise of the middle class and economic growth in ASEAN

Markus Brueckner, Dabla-Norris,Era, Mark Gradstein and Daniel Lederman

8067: Elections and embezzlement: experimental evidence from Burkina Faso

Malte Lierl

8066: Why do some oil-rich countries perform better than others ?

Farrukh Iqbal and Youssouf Kiendrebeogo

8065: Crossovers: female entrepreneurs who enter male sectors -- evidence from Ethiopia

Salman Alibhai, Niklas Buehren, Sreelakshmi Papineni and Rachael Susan Pierotti

8064: Status goods: experimental evidence from platinum credit cards

Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz, Gautam Rao, Leonardo A. Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz and Gautam Rao

8063: Effect of stress on later-life health: evidence from the Vietnam war draft

John Cawley, Damien de Walque and Daniel Grossman

8062: The entry of randomized assignment into the social sciences

Julian C Jamison

8061: To sew or not to sew ? assessing the welfare effects of the garment industry in Cambodia

Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina and Martha Tesfaye Woldemichae

8060: The effects of in-kind demand-side conditional transfers for improving uptake of maternal and child health services in Rwanda

Gil Shapira, Ina Kalisa, Jeanine Condo, James Humuza, Cathy Mugeni and Jeanette Walldorf

8059: Effects of performance incentives for community health worker cooperatives in Rwanda

Gil Shapira, Ina Kalisa, Jeanine Condo, James Humuza, Cathy Mugeni, Denis Nkunda and Jeanette Walldorf

8058: Compensation, diversity and inclusion at the World Bank Group

Jishnu Das, Clément Joubert and Sander Florian Tordoir

8057: Collecting the dirt on soils: advancements in plot-level soil testing and implications for agricultural statistics

Calogero Carletto, Ermias Aynekulu, Sydney Gourlay and Keith Shepherd

8056: Industrial policy, information, and government capacity

William Maloney and Gaurav Nayyar

8055: Documenting Myanmar's social transformation: insights from six rounds of research on livelihoods and social change in rural communities

Samuel James Pursch, Andrea Fitri Woodhouse, Michael Woolcock and Matthew Pierre Zurstrassen

8054: Do countries learn from experience in infrastructure PPP ? PPP practice and contract cancellation

Darwin Marcelo Gordillo, Ruth Schuyler House, Mandri-Perrott,Xavier Cledan and Jordan Z. Schwartz

8053: The influence of non-cognitive skills on wages within and between firms: evidence from Bangladesh's formal sector

Shinsaku Nomura and Samik Adhikari

8052: Industrial policies vs public goods under asymmetric information

Constantino Hevia, Norman Loayza and Claudia Maria Meza Cuadra Balcazar

8051: Who serves the poor ? surveying civil servants in the developing world

Daniel Rogger

8050: The misallocation of pay and productivity in the public sector: evidence from the labor market for teachers

Natalie Bau and Jishnu Das

8049: Child undernutrition in Pakistan: what do we know ?

Dhushyanth Raju, Ritika Dsouza, Dhushyanth Raju and Ritika Dsouza

8048: Does oil revenue crowd out other tax revenues ? policy lessons for Uganda

Vincent De Paul Tsoungui Belinga, Maximillien Kaffo Melou and Jean-Pascal Nganou

8047: Does the World Bank foster business ?

Raffaela Giordano and Patrizio Pagano

8046: What to do when foreign direct investment is not direct or foreign: FDI round tripping

Dilek Aykut, Apurva Sanghi and Gina Kosmidou

8045: Do private water utility operators care about regulatory agencies in developing countries ?

Salvador Bertomeu Sanchez, Daniel Camos and Antonio Estache

8044: Underreporting of gender-based violence in Kerala, India: an application of the list randomization method

George Joseph, Syed Usman Javaid, Luis Andres, Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Jennifer Solotaroff and Sebastian Irudaya Rajan

8043: Stronger together: intra-household cooperation and household welfare in Malawi

Nancy Mccarthy and Talip Kilic

8042: Economywide and sectoral impacts on workers of Brazil?s internet rollout

Mark Andrew Dutz, Lucas Ferreira Mation, Stephen O'Connell and Robert D. Willig

8041: Structural change, fundamentals, and growth: a framework and case studies

Margaret Mc Millan, Dani Rodrik and Claudia Paz Sepulveda

8040: Financial inclusion and inclusive growth: a review of recent empirical evidence

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer

8039: On the frontlines of scaling-up: a qualitative analysis of implementation challenges in a CDD project in rural India

Shruti Majumdar, Vijayendra Rao and Paromita Sanyal

8038: The economics of forced displacement: an introduction

Paolo Verme

8037: How much labor do South African exports contain ?

Massimiliano Calì and Claire Honore Hollweg

8036: They got mad skills: the effects of training on youth employability and resilience to the Ebola shock

Nina Rosas Raffo, Maria Cecilia Acevedo and Samantha Zaldivar Chimal

8035: Consumption smoothing and shock persistence: optimal simple fiscal rules for commodity exporters

Arthur Galego Mendes and Steven Michael Pennings

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 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 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