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10386: Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets

Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Jishnu Das and Amy Dolinger

10385: Land and Mortgage Markets in Ukraine: Pre-War Performance, War Effects, and Implications for Recovery

Klaus W. Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali

10384: Access to Credit and Bank Ownership: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Mario Di Filippo and Ugo Panizza

10383: Is Climate Change Slowing the Urban Escalator out of Poverty ? Evidence from Chile, Colombia, and Indonesia

Shohei Nakamura, Ksenia Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang, Shinya Takamatsu, Chunchen Pei and Dilou Prospere

10382: Services-Led Growth: Better Prospects after the Pandemic ?

Gaurav Nayyar and Elwyn Adriaan Robin Davies

10381: COVID-19 School Closures, Learning Losses and Intergenerational Mobility

João Pedro Azevedo, Alexandru Cojocaru, Veronica Sonia Montalva Talledo and Ambar Narayan

10380: China as an International Lender of Last Resort

Sebastian Andreas Horn, Bradley Christopher Parks, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

10379: Coping with Compounding Challenges in Conflict Crises: Evidence from North-east Nigeria

Wolfgang Stojetz and Tilman Brück

10378: Conscientiousness and Labor Market Returns: Evidence from a Field Experiment in West Africa

Mathias Allemand, Martina Kirchberger, Sveta Milusheva, Carol Newman, Brent Roberts and Vincent Thorne

10377: Who Suffers the Most from the Cost-of-Living Crisis ?

Michael Lokshin, Zurab Sajaia and Ivan Torre

10376: Man or Machine ? Environmental Consequences of Wage Driven Mechanization in Indian Agriculture

Arnold Behrer

10375: The Impact of Ethnic Fractionalization on Labor Productivity: Does Firm Size Matter?

Mohammad Amin and Usman Khalid

10374: Trade Promotion Organizations in the Pandemic World

Yewon Choi, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Arti Goswami Grover, Leonardo Iacovone and Marcelo Olarreaga

10373: Welfare and Climate Risks in Coastal Bangladesh: The Impacts of Climatic Extremes on Multidimensional Poverty and the Wider Benefits of Climate Adaptation

Jasper Verschuur, Olivia Rose Elizabeth Becher, Tom Schwantje, Mathijs Van Ledden, Swarna Kazi and Ignacio M. Urrutia Duarte

10372: Institutional Trust, Perceptions of Distributive Unfairness, and Income across Salvadoran Municipalities

Emilio Depetris Chauvin

10371: Offshoring Response to High-Skilled Immigration: A Firm-Level Analysis

Devaki Ghose and Zhiling Wang

10370: Leaning in at Home: Women's Promotions and Intra-household Bargaining in Bangladesh

Hannah Irmela Uckat

10369: Investment in Emerging Market and Developing Economy Regions: Trends, Prospects, and Policy Options

Sergiy Kasyanenko, Philip George Kenworthy, Franz Ruch, Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze, Dana Lauren Vorisek and Collette Mari Wheeler

10368: The Past and Future of Regional Potential Growth: Hopes, Fears, and Realities

Sergiy Kasyanenko, Philip George Kenworthy, Sinem Kilic Celik, Franz Ruch, Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze and Collette Mari Wheeler

10367: The Macroeconomic Implications of a Transition to Zero Net Emissions: A Modeling Framework

Stephane Hallegatte, Florent McIsaac, Hasan Dudu, Charl Jooste, Camilla Knudsen and Hans Anand Beck

10366: Synthesis of the Impacts of Covid-19 on India’s Labor Market: Looking at People, Places and Policies

Yiming Guo, Ambar Narayan, Pedro Olinto, Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Nayantara Sarma

10365: Exciting, Boring, and Nonexistent Skylines: Vertical Building Gaps in Global Perspective

Remi Jedwab and Jason Barr

10364: The Global Investment Slowdown: Challenges and Policies

Kersten Kevin Stamm and Dana Lauren Vorisek

10363: Unlocking SME Finance in Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations

Pietro Calice

10362: The Fragility and Resilience of Nations

Cem Karayalcin and Harun Onder

10361: Toward Environmentally Sustainable Public Institutions: The Green Government IT Index

Michael Lokshin and Eduardo Martin Widmar

10360: How Did Urban Household Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Fare during COVID-19 ? Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys

Wendy Cunningham, Feraud Tchuisseu, Mariana Viollaz, Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, David Newhouse and Federica Ricaldi

10359: How Well Do Internet-Based Surveys Track Labor Market Indicators in Middle-Income Countries ?

Vidhya Soundararajan, Sidiki Soubeiga, David Newhouse, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Utz Pape and Michael Weber

10358: How Do Borrowers Respond to a Debt Moratorium ? Experimental Evidence from Consumer Loans in India

Stefano Fiorin, Joseph Hall and Martin Kanz

10357: Modeling Transition Paths for the Energy and Transport Sectors: A Literature Review

Maria Vagliasindi

10356: Trade as an Engine of Growth: Sputtering but Fixable

Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge and Lucia Quaglietti

10355: Potential Growth Prospects: Risks, Rewards, and Policies

Sinem Kilic Celik, Ayhan Kose and Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge

10354: PRE working paper series: numbers 628 to 668

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10353: PRE working paper series: numbers 667 to 722

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10352: Growth and Transformative Effects of ICT Adoption: A Survey

Estefania Belen Vergara Cobos and Eduardo Malásquez

10351: The Impact of COVID-19 on Mobility and Congestion

Maria Vagliasindi

10350: The Impact of Infrastructure on Development Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis

Vivien Foster, Nisan Gorgulu, Dhruv Jain, Stephane Straub and Maria Vagliasindi

10349: Can Vaccination Incentives Backfire? Experimental Evidence That Offering Cash Incentives Can Reduce Vaccination Intentions in Some Contexts

William Hutchins Seitz, Eiji Yamada and Satoshi Shimizutani

10348: Improving Estimates of Mean Welfare and Uncertainty in Developing Countries

Joshua David Merfeld and David Newhouse

10347: Behavioral Aspects of Healthy Longevity

Ana Maria Rojas Mendez, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Ellen Elizabeth Moscoe, Julian C Jamison and Carlos Rumiallo Herl

10346: Data Transparency in the Middle East and North Africa

Asif Islam

10345: The Importance of Financial Education for the Effective Use of Formal Financial Services

Saniya Ansar, Leora Klapper and Dorothe Singer

10344: PRE working paper series: numbers 723 to 761

Anonymous

10343: The Impact of Infrastructure on Development Outcomes: A Qualitative Review of Four Decades of Literature

Vivien Foster, Nisan Gorgulu, Stephane Straub and Maria Vagliasindi

10342: Electoral Effects of Integrating Forced Migrants: Evidence from a Southern Country

Sandra Rozo, Alejandra Quintana and Maria Jose Urbina Florez

10341: Carbon Pricing and Transit Accessibility to Jobs: Impacts on Inequality in Rio de Janeiro and Kinshasa

Andrew David Nell, Daniel Herszenhut, Camilla Knudsen, Shohei Nakamura, Marcus Saraiva and Paolo Avner

10340: Sharing Parental Leave between Mothers and Fathers: Experimental Evidence from a Messaging Intervention in Uruguay

Martina Querejeta Rabosto, Cecilia Olivieri, Andrea Ailin Tomio, Jorge Luis Castaneda Nunez and Ana Maria Munoz Boudet

10339: Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports

Rabah Arezki, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Federico Merchán, Ha Nguyen and Tristan Reed

10338: Deep Trade Agreements and FDI in Partial and General Equilibrium: A Structural Estimation Framework

Mario Larch and Yoto Valentinov Yotov

10337: Not All That It Seems: Narrowing of Gender Gaps in Employment during the Onset of COVID-19 in Indo nesia

Daniel Zefanya Halim, Sean Hambali and Ririn Salwa Purnamasari

10336: Combatting Forest Fires in the Drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Tung Nguyen Huy, Guigonan Serge Adjognon and Daan van Soest

10335: Citizen Participation and Political Trust in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Machine Learning Approach

Natalia Gisel Pecorari and Jose Antonio Cuesta Leiva

10334: Poorer than Adults and Deprived in Almost All Counts: Welfare Status of Children in Nigeria

Caroline Schimanski and Mohammad Abul Kalam-1228442 Azad

10333: The Global Survey of Public Servants: A Foundation for Research on Public Servants around the World

Christian Schuster, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Daniel Oliver Rogger, Francis Fukuyama, Zahid Hasnain, Dinsha Mistree, Jan Meyer-Sahling, Katherine Bersch and Kerenssa Mayo Kay

10332: Trade and Local Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico: Disentangling the Channels and the Role of Geography, Sectors, and Trade Types

Emmanuel Vazquez and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler

10331: Child Labor Standards in Regional Trade Agreements: Theory and Evidence

Ryan Michael Abman, Clark Christopher Lundberg, John Edward Mclaren and Michele Ruta

10330: Energy Demand during a Pandemic: Evidence from Ghana and Rwanda

Justice Tei Mensah, Aimable Nsabimana, James Dzansi and Alexandre Nshunguyinka

10329: Assessing the Impact of Renewable Energy Policies on Decarbonization in Developing Countries

World Bank

10328: Estimating spatially disaggregated probability of severe COVID-19 and the impact of handwashing interventions: The case of Zimbabwe

George Joseph, Sveta Milusheva, Hugh James William Sturrock, Tonderai Mapako, Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling and Yi Rong Hoo

10327: The Importance of Maintenance: Geospatial Analysis of Cholera Risk and Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Harare, Zimbabwe

George Joseph, Sveta Milusheva, Hugh James William Sturrock, Faith Maidei Kashangura, Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling and Yi Rong Hoo

10326: Banking Sector Risk in the Aftermath of Climate Change and Environmental-Related Natural Disasters

Ou Nie, Martijn Gert Jan Regelink and Dieter Wang

10325: Take-Up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits

Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz and Andrea Weber

10324: Deep Trade Agreements and International Migration: The Role of Visa Provisions

Anthonin Levelu, Anna Maria Mayda and Gianluca Orefice

10323: Pursuing Environmental and Social Objectives through Trade Agreements

Francois Marie Jean Fernand Joseph Perrot De Champ, Bernard M. Hoekman, Miriam Manchin and Filippo Santi

10322: Revisiting the Trade-Creating Effects of Non-Tariff Barriers

Gabriel Johannes Felbermayr and Feodora Francesca Angelika Teti

10321: Deep Trade Agreements and Firm Ownership in GVCs

Peter Egger and Gerard Masllorens

10320: The Impacts of Intellectual Property–Related Preferential Trade Agreements on Bilateral Patent Applications

Jacob Howard, Keith Maskus and William Ridley

10319: Trade, Emissions, and Environmental Spillovers: Issue linkages in Regional Trade Agreements∗

Clark Christopher Lundberg, Daniel Anthony Szmurlo and Ryan Michael Abman

10318: The Climate Implications of Ending Global Poverty

Philip Randolph Wollburg, Stephane Hallegatte and Daniel Gerszon Mahler

10317: Quality and Inequality in Pre-Primary and Home Environment Inputs to Early Childhood Development in Egypt

Caroline Gould Krafft, Abbie Raikes, Samira Nikaein Towfighian and Rebecca Sayre Mojgani

10316: Human Capital and Climate Change

Noam Angrist, Kevin Winseck, Harry Patrinos and Joshua S. Graff Zivin

10315: Internal Conflicts and Shocks. A Narrative Meta-Analysis

Camille Laville and Pierre Jean-Claude Mandon

10314: Food Insecurity Erodes Trust

Woubet Kassa, Michael Dean Smith and Dennis Wesselbaum

10313: The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Jishnu Das and Quy-Toan Do

10312: Effective Tax Rates and Firm Size

Pierre Jean Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Roel Dom and Camille Marine Semelet

10311: Understanding Home Bias in Procurement: Evidence from National and Subnational Governments

Manuel Jose Garcia Santana and Marta Santamaría

10310: Long-Lived Consequences of Rapid Scale-Up ? The Case of Free Primary Education in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries

Deon Filmer

10309: Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills in Low-Income Countries: Measurement and Associations with Schooling and Earnings

Alice Madeleine Danon, Jishnu Das, Andreas de Barros and Deon Filmer

10308: The Effects of Differential Exposure to COVID-19 on Educational Outcomes in Guatemala

Andrés Ham, Emmanuel Vazquez and Monica Yanez Pagans

10307: Stock Market Liberalizations and Export Dynamics

Melise Jaud, Madina Kukenova and Martin Strieborny

10306: How Selling Online Is Affecting Informal Firms in South Asia

Maurizio Bussolo, Akshay Govind Dixit, Anne Marie Golla, Ananya Kotia, Jean Nahrae Lee and Siddharth Sharma

10305: Maternal Work and Children’s Development: Examining 20 Years of Evidence

Maria Lo Bue, Elizaveta Perova and Sarah Reynolds

10304: From Middle Class to Poverty: The Unequal Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Developing Countries

Mariana Viollaz, Daniel Vasconcellos Archer Duque, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, David Newhouse and Michael Weber

10303: The Aggregate Effects of Global and Local Supply Chain Disruptions: 2020–2022

George Alessandria, Shafaat Khan, Armen Khederlarian, Carter Mix and Kim Ruhl

10302: Measuring Poverty in Forced Displacement Contexts

Utz Pape and Paolo Verme

10301: Estimating House Prices in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies: A Big Data Approach

Daniela Monika Behr, Lixue Chen, Ankita Goel, Khondoker Tanveer Haider, Sandeep Singh and Asad Zaman

10300: Long COVID: The Evolution of Household Welfare in Developing Countries during the Pandemic

Ben James Brunckhorst, Alexandru Cojocaru, Ruth Hill, Yeon Soo Kim and Maurice Kugler

10299: Cross-Border Exchange of Information and Tax Revenue Mobilization in Africa

Mohamed Lamine Traore, Seydou Coulibaly and Yannis Arvanitis

10298: Natural Disasters and Fiscal Drought

Lazar Milivojevic

10297: Scalable Tracking of CO2 Emissions: A Global Analysis with Satellite Data

Susmita Dasgupta, Somik V. Lall and David Wheeler

10296: A Metadata Schema for Data from Experiments in the Social Sciences

Jack Cavanagh, Jasmin Claire Fliegner, Sarah Kopper and Anja Sautmann

10295: A Deeper Dive into the Relationship between Economic Development and Migration

Maheshwor Shrestha

10294: Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa

Margaret S. Mcmillan and Albert G. Zeufack

10293: Cash and Conflict: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger

Patrick Premand and Dominic Patrick Rohner

10292: Efficiency and Equity in Urban Flood Management Policies: A Systematic Urban Economics Exploration

Charlotte Liotta, Paolo Avner and Stephane Hallegatte

10291: Least Protected, Most Affected: Impacts of Migration Regularization Programs on Pandemic Resilience

Maria Jose Urbina Florez, Sandra Viviana Rozo Villarraga, Andres Moya and Ana Ibáñez

10290: Alternative Delivery Channels and Impacts: Agent Banking

Sinja Buri, Robert J. Cull and Xavier Gine

10289: Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in El Salvador

Britta Laurin Rude and Monica Robayo-Abril

10288: Returns to Education in the Marriage Market: Bride Price and School Reform in Egypt

Jingyuan Deng, Nelly Elmallakh, Luca Flabbi and Roberta V. Gatti

10287: Gender-Based Discounts on Taxes Related to Property: Role in Encouraging Female Ownership — A Case Study of Indian States and Cities

Rajul Awasthi, Katie Pyle, Namita Aggarwal and Parvina Sukhrobovna Rakhimova