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7832: Investing in school readiness: an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia

Nozomi Nakajima, Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Sally Ann Brinkman, Menno Prasad Pradhan and Angela Kinnell

7831: Nonrenewable resources, income inequality and per capita GDP: an empirical analysis

Antonio Scognamillo, Gianluca Mele and Luca Sensini

7830: Trends and drivers of poverty reduction in Nepal: a historical perspective

Hiroki Uematsu, Akhmad Rizal Shidiq and Sailesh Tiwari

7829: Can the culture of honor lead to inefficient conventions ? experimental evidence from India

Benjamin A. Brooks, Karla Hoff and Priyanka Pandey

7828: Faraway or nearby ? domestic and international spillovers in patenting and product innovation

Claudio Bravo-Ortega, Ana Paula Cusolito and Daniel Lederman

7827: Russian Federation: how services contribute to competitiveness

Juan Sebastian Saez and Erik van der Marel

7826: Minimizing ecological damage from road improvement in tropical forests

Susmita Dasgupta and David R. Wheeler

7825: Does improved local supply of schooling enhance intergenerational mobility in education ? evidence from Jordan

Ragui Assaad and Mohamed Saleh

7824: Mobility and pathways to the middle class in Nepal

Sailesh Tiwari, Akhmad Rizal Shidiq and Carlos Balcazar

7823: From commodity discovery to production

Tehmina Khan, Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, Franziska Ohnsorge and Richard Schodde

7822: Shoeing the Children: the impact of the TOMS Shoe donation program in rural El Salvador

Bruce Wydick, Elizabeth G. Katz, Flor Calvo, Felipe Gutierrez and Brendan Janet

7821: Export competitiveness and FDI performance across the regions of the Russian Federation

Karlygash Serikovna Dairabayeva, Michael Joseph Ferrantino, Alberto Portugal-Perez and Gabriela Schmidt

7820: Are labor supply decisions consistent with neoclassical preferences ? evidence from Indian boat owners

Xavier Gine, Monica Martinez-Bravo and Marian Vidal-Fernandez

7819: The globe and the circle: geometry and economic geography as tribute to Thales and Nash

Kaushik Basu

7818: Preferential resource spending under an employment guarantee: the political economy of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh

Megan Britney Sheahan, Yanyan Liu, Christopher Barrett and Sudha Narayanan

7817: Combining preschool teacher training with parenting education: a cluster-randomized controlled trial

Berk Özler, Lia C. H. Fernald, Patricia Karol Kariger, Christin Mcconnell, Michelle J. Neuman and Eduardo Pinheiro Fraga

7816: The state of economics, the state of the world

Kaushik Basu

7815: Corporate borrowing and debt maturity: the effects of market access and crises

Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Tatiana Didier Brandao, Sergio L. Schmukler, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Tatiana Didier Brandao and Sergio L. Schmukler

7814: Will market competition trump gender discrimination in India ?

Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William Kerr

7813: On the ground or in the air ? a methodological experiment on crop residue cover measurement in Ethiopia

Frederic Kosmowski, James Stevenson, Jeff Campbell, Alemayehu Ambel and Asmelash Haile Tsegay

7812: Varietal identification in household surveys: results from an experiment using DNA fingerprinting of sweet potato leaves in southern Ethiopia

Frederic Kosmowski, Abiyot Aragaw, Andrzej Kilian, Alemayehu Ambel, John Ilukor, Biratu Yigezu and James Stevenson

7811: Sustainability of a residential CFL distribution program: evidence from Ethiopia

Issa Diaw, Raihan Elahi and Atsushi Iimi

7810: How many years have refugees been in exile ?

Xavier Devictor and Quy-Toan Do

7809: Are all trade agreements equal ? the role of distance in shaping the effect of economic integration agreements on trade flows

Rebecca Ann Freeman and Samuel Jaime Pienknagura

7808: Are minimum wages and payroll taxes a constraint to the creation of formal jobs in Morocco ?

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Abdoul Gadiry Barry and Jamal Guennouni

7807: Savings defaults and payment delays for cash transfers: field experimental evidence from Malawi

Lasse Florian Brune, Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang

7806: Uncertainty as a factor in investment decisions: the case of the Russian Federation's regions

Irina Levina, Gregory Kisunko, Israel I. Marques and Andrei Yakovlev

7805: On the impact of demographic change on growth, savings, and poverty

Syud Ahmed and Marcio Cruz

7804: The capabilities driving participation in global value chains

Vilas G. Pathikonda and Thomas Farole

7803: Unequal before the law: measuring legal gender disparities across the world

Sarah Iqbal, Asif Islam, Rita Ramalho and Alena Sakhonchik

7802: Prevalence, economic contribution, and determinants of trees on farms across Sub-Saharan Africa

Daniel Charles Miller, Juan Muñoz Mora and Luc Christiaensen

7801: Impact of social assistance on labor market mobility: the case of Turkey

Deniz Alcan, Raif Mokretar-Karroubi, Temel Taskin and William David Wiseman

7800: Predicting project outcomes: a simple methodology for predictions based on project ratings

Marc Blanc, Talib B. K. Esmail, Caroline Mascarell and Joseph Rukshan Rodriguez

7799: Can environmental policy reduce infant mortality ? evidence from the Ganga pollution cases

Quy-Toan Do, Shareen Joshi, Samuel Stolper, Quy-Toan Do, Shareen Joshi and Samuel Stolper

7798: Making the most of demographic change in Southern Africa

Syud Ahmed and Marcio Cruz

7797: Combining mentoring programs with cash transfers for adolescent girls in Liberia:baseline report

Kelly K. Hallman, Elizabeth Kelvin, Berk Özler, Juliette Seban, Erica Kuhlik, Cooper Alton, Joseph Kamara and Sarah Goodman

7796: Short- and long-term effects of a child-labor ban

Caio Piza and André Souza

7795: Understanding the dynamics of labor income inequality in Latin America

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Luis Lopez-Calva, Nora Lustig and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez

7794: Synergies in child nutrition: interactions of food security, health and environment, and child care

Emmanuel Skoufias

7793: Estimating poverty rates in target populations: an assessment of the simple poverty scorecard and alternative approaches

Alexis Diamond, Michael Gill, Miguel Angel Rebolledo Dellepiane, Emmanuel Skoufias, Katja Vinha and Yiqing Xu

7792: Hidden human capital: psychological empowerment and adolescent girls'aspirations in India

Sanchari Roy, Matthew H. Morton and Shrayana Bhattacharya

7791: Negative interest rate policies: sources and implications

Carlos Arteta, Ayhan Kose, Marc Stocker and Temel Taskin

7790: Global health workforce labor market projections for 2030

Jenny X Liua, Yevgeniy Goryakin, Akiko Maeda, Tim Allen Bruckner and Richard M. Scheffler

7789: Who uses electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa ? findings from household surveys

Masami Kojima, Xin-000438564 Zhou, Jeesun Han, Joerie Frederik De Wit, Robert W. Bacon, Christopher Philip Trimble, Masami Kojima, Xin-000438564 Zhou, Jeesun Han, Joerie Frederik De Wit, Robert W. Bacon and Christopher Philip Trimble

7788: Financial viability of electricity sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa: quasi-fiscal deficits and hidden costs

Christopher Philip Trimble, Masami Kojima, Ines Perez Arroyo and Farah Mohammadzadeh

7787: The distributional impact of taxes and transfers in Poland

Karolina Goraus and Gabriela Inchauste

7786: The microfinance business model: enduring subsidy and modest profit

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan J. Morduch

7785: Disaggregating the impact of the internet on international trade

Alberto Osnago and Shawn Tan

7784: Building long-term portfolio benchmarks for pension funds in emerging economies

Heinz P. Rudolph and Jorge Sabat

7783: Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size?productivity relationship ? longitudinal evidence from rural India

Klaus W. Deininger, Songqing Jin, Yanyan Liu and Sudhir Singh

7782: Inequality of opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Paolo Brunori, Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine

7781: The volatility of international trade flows in the 21st century: whose fault is it anyway ?

Federico Roberto Bennett, Daniel Lederman, Samuel Pienknagura and Diego Rojas

7780: Resource misallocation in Turkey

Ha Minh Nguyen, Temel Taskin and Ayberk Yilmaz

7779: Building voluntary pension schemes in emerging economies

Heinz P. Rudolph

7778: Dictators walking the Mogadishu line: how men become monsters and monsters become men

Shaun Larcom, Mare Sarr and Tim Willems

7777: Factor endowments, technology, capital mobility and the sources of comparative advantage in manufacturing

Shushanik Hakobyan and Daniel Lederman

7776: Global inequality: the implications of Thomas Piketty's capital in the 21st century

Christoph Lakner

7775: The effects of innovation on employment in developing countries: evidence from enterprisesurveys

Xavier Cirera and Leonard Sabetti

7774: Pathways to profits: identifying separate channels of small firm growth through business training

Stephen J. Anderson, Rajesh Chandy and Bilal Zia

7773: Not your average job: measuring farm labor in Tanzania

Vellore Arthi, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Amparo Palacios-Lopez

7772: International financial integration of East Asia and Pacific

Tatiana Didier Brandao, Ruth Llovet Montanes, Sergio L. Schmukler, Tatiana Didier Brandao, Ruth Llovet Montanes and Sergio L. Schmukler

7771: Geopolitics, aid, and growth: the impact of UN security council membership on the effectiveness of aid

Axel Dreher, Vera Eichenauer and Kai Gehring

7770: Quantifying uncertainties in global growth forecasts

Franziska Ohnsorge, Marc Stocker and Modeste Y. Some

7769: Vulnerability to Poverty in rural Malawi

Nancy Mccarthy, Josh Brubaker and Alejandro De La Fuente

7768: Feedback matters: evidence from agricultural services

Maria Ruth Jones and Florence Kondylis

7767: Services and innovation for the competitiveness of the Ecuadorian economy

Luis Rubalcaba, David Gago, Maria Ariano and Arvind Kumar Tripathi

7766: Modeling the impacts of climate change on future Vietnamese households: a micro-simulation approach

Julie Rozenberg and Stephane Hallegatte

7765: Exposure to floods, climate change, and poverty in Vietnam

Mook Bangalore, Andrew Smith and Ted Veldkamp

7764: The varying income effects of weather variation: initial insights from rural Vietnam

Ulf Gerrit Narloch

7763: Environmental risks and poverty: analyzing geo-spatial and household data from Vietnam

Ulf Gerrit Narloch and Mook Bangalore

7762: If it pays, it stays: can agribusiness internalize the benefits of malaria control ?

Richard Sedlmayr

7761: If politics is the problem, how can external actors be part of the solution ?

Shantayanan Devarajan and Stuti Khemani

7760: A randomized control trial of a peer adherence and nutritional support program for public sector antiretroviral patients

Frederik Le Roux Booysen, Damien de Walque, A. Over, Satoko Hashimoto and Chantell de Reuck

7759: Cheaper, faster, and more than good enough: is GPS the new gold standard in land area measurement ?

Calogero Carletto, Sydney Gourlay, Siobhan Murray and Alberto Zezza

7758: All that glitters is not gold: polarization amid poverty reduction in Ghana

Fabio Clementi, Vasco Molini and Francesco Schettino

7757: Pirates of Somalia: crime and deterrence on the high seas

Quy-Toan Do, Lin Ma and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

7756: Firm financing and growth in the Arab region

Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Soha Ismail Ahmed Aly Ismail, Sergio L. Schmukler, Juan Jose Cortina Lorente, Soha Ismail Ahmed Aly Ismail and Sergio L. Schmukler

7755: A comparative analysis of subsidy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Abdelkrim Araar and Paolo Verme

7754: Subsidy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: a review

Paolo Verme

7753: Assessing implementation of the principles for public credit guarantees for SMEs: a global survey

Pietro Calice

7752: Should I stay or should I go ? internal migration and household welfare in Ghana

Vasco Molini, Dan Pavelesku and Marco Ranzani

7751: Effects of multilateral support on infrastructure PPP contract cancellation

Darwin Marcelo Gordillo and Ruth Schuyler House

7750: Financial (Dis-)information: evidence from a multi-country audit study

Xavier Gine, Rafael Keenan Mazer, Xavier Gine and Rafael Keenan Mazer

7749: Does the 2015 peace accord in Mali reflect the priorities of households and local leaders ?

Julia Lendorfer and Johannes G. Hoogeveen

7748: Russian Federation, the World Trade Organization, and the Eurasian Customs Union: tariff and non-tariff policy challenges

Michael Joseph Ferrantino, Ian John Douglas Gillson and Gabriela Schmidt

7747: Do returns to education depend on how and who you ask ?

Pieter Serneels, Kathleen G. Beegle and Andrew Dillon

7746: On minimizing the risk of bias in randomized controlled trials in economics

Alex Eble, Peter Boone and Diana Elbourne

7745: Do consumers benefit from supply chain intermediaries ? evidence from a policy experiment in the edible oils market in Bangladesh

M. Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin

7744: How to measure whether index insurance provides reliable protection

Karlijn Morsink, Daniel Clarke and Shadreck Mapfumo

7743: Structural transformation in Africa: a historical view

Maria Enache, Ejaz Ghani and O'Connell,Stephen

7742: Technology strategies for low-carbon economic growth: a general equilibrium assessment

Ian Newel James Sue Wing and Govinda R. Timilsina

7741: Spatial development and agglomeration economies in services -- lessons from India

Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr

7740: Aging, trade, and migration

Richard Chisik, Harun Onder and Dhimitri Qirjo

7739: Inherited wealth and demographic aging

Harun Onder and Pierre Pestieau

7738: Euro currency risk and the geography of debt flows to peripheral European monetary union members

Eylem Ersal-Kiziler and Ha Minh Nguyen

7737: Sectoral productivity gaps and aggregate productivity

Rishabh Sinha

7736: Impact of climate change and aquatic salinization on mangrove species and poor communities in the Bangladesh Sundarbans

Susmita Dasgupta, Istiak Sobhan and David J. Wheeler

7735: Impacts of carbon pricing in reducing the carbon intensity of China's GDP

Jing Cao, Mun Ho and Govinda R. Timilsina

7734: The development impact of financial regulation: evidence from Ethiopia and antebellum USA

Nicola Limodio and Francesco Strobbe

7733: Financial regulation and government revenue: the effects of a policy change in Ethiopia

Nicola Limodio and Francesco Strobbe