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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

10286: Does Market Integration Increase Rural Land Inequality ? Evidence from India

Claudia N. Berg, Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi

10285: Growing Up Together: Sibling Correlation, Parental Influence, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Developing Countries

Md. Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang, Qingyang Han and Forhad J. Shilpi

10284: Firms’ Digitalization during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Tale of Two Stories

Edgar Itamar Avalos Almanza, Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz, Leonardo Iacovone, Denis Medvedev, Gaurav Nayyar and Santiago Reyes Ortega

10283: Understanding the Global Drivers of Inflation: How Important Are Oil Prices ?

Jongrim Ha, Ayhan Kose, Franziska Lieselotte Ohnsorge and Hakan Yilmazkuday

10282: Gendered Laws and Women’s Financial Inclusion

Caroline Sabine Marie Perrin and Marie Caitriona Hyland

10281: Do Cash Transfer Programs Protect from Poverty in the Case of Aggregate Shocks ? A Study on Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines

Tobias Pfutze

10280: Digital Technology Uses among Microenterprises: Why Is Productive Use So Low across Sub-Saharan Africa ?

Izak Atiyas and Mark Andrew Dutz

10279: Job Displacement and Reallocation Failure: Evidence from Climate Shocks in Morocco

Federica Alfani, Vasco Molini, Giacomo Pallante and Alessandro Palma

10278: Outcomes for Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Kirsten Schuettler and Quy-Toan Do

10277: Deep Trade Agreements and Heterogeneous Firms Exports

Matteo Neri--Lainé, Gianluca Orefice and Michele Ruta

10276: What Makes an Investment Promotion Agency Effective ? Findings from a Structural Gravity Model

Victor Steenbergen

10275: The Evolution of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Panel Survey Data

Philip Randolph Wollburg, Yannick Markhof, Shelton Sofiel Elisa Kanyanda and Alberto Zezza

10274: Bayesian Impact Evaluation with Informative Priors: An Application to a Colombian Management and Export Improvement Program

Leonardo Iacovone, David McKenzie and Rachael Meager

10273: Bank Bailouts and Fiscal Contingent Liabilities

Davide Salvatore Mare, Martin Melecký and Hanna Murina

10272: Droughts and Welfare in Afghanistan

Nishtha Kochhar and Erwin Willem Yvonnick Leon Knippenberg

10271: Trade Policies and Sea and Air freight: The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Imports and Exports

Socrates Kraido Majune and Angella Montfaucon

10270: Climate Change Regulations: Bank Lending and Real Effects

Faruk Miguel Liriano, Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

10269: Cartels, Antitrust Enforcement, and Industry Performance: Evidence from Mexico

Tristan Reed, Mariana De La Paz Pereira Lopez, Ana Francisca Urrutia Arrieta and Leonardo Iacovone

10268: Understanding the Distributional Impacts of Increases in Fuel Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Paraguay

Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza, Lyliana Gayoso de Ervin, Juan José Galeano and Juan Pablo Baquero

10267: Dreams and Barriers: Aspirations, Expectations, and Schooling Outcomes of Indonesian Students

Hillary C. Johnson and Noel Muller

10266: Global Bank Lending under Climate Policy

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Alvaro Enrique Pedraza Morales, Fredy Pulga and Claudia Ruiz Ortega

10265: Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes

Anikó Bíró, Réka Branyiczki, Attila Lindner, Lili Márk and Daniel Prinz

10264: Machine Learning and Sensitivity Analysis Approach to Quantify Uncertainty in Landslide Susceptibility Mapping

Mohammed Adam Abbaker Basheer, Thomas Oommen, Masatsugu Takamatsu and Sachi Suzuki

10263: Policy Options for Broadband Infrastructure Strategies: A Simulation Model for Affordable Universal Broadband in Africa

Edward J. Oughton

10262: Are All State-Owned Enterprises Equal ? A Taxonomy of Economic Activities to Assess SOE Presence in the Economy

Andrea Mario Dall'Olio, Tanja K. Goodwin, Martha Martinez Licetti, Ana Cristina Alonso Soria, Maciej Adam Drozd, Jan Alexander Kazimierz Orlowski, Fausto Andres Patino Pena and Dennis Sanchez Navarro

10261: Using ORBIS to Build a Global Database of Firms with State Participation

Andrea Mario Dall'Olio, Tanja K. Goodwin, Martha Martinez Licetti, Jan Alexander Kazimierz Orlowski, Fausto Andres Patino Pena, Francis Ralambotsiferana Ratsimbazafy and Dennis Sanchez Navarro

10260: Factors Explaining Child Work and Education in Myanmar

Chiara Dall'Aglio, Emilie Bernadette Perge and Clarence Tsimpo

10259: The Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Latin America: Long-Run Implications for Poverty and Inequality

Jessica Roxana Bracco, Matías Ciaschi, Leonardo Carlos Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni and Guido Neidhöfer

10258: How Do Rising U.S. Interest Rates Affect Emerging and Developing Economies ? It Depends

Carlos Arteta, Steven Brian Kamin and Franz Ulrich Ruch

10257: Integrating Survey and Geospatial Data to Identify the Poor and Vulnerable: Evidence from Malawi

Melany Gualavisi and David Newhouse

10256: Capacity Building as a Route to Export Market Expansion: A Six-Country Experiment in the Western Balkans∗

Ana Paula Cusolito, Ornella Darova and David McKenzie

10255: Fewer Questions, More Answers: Truncated Early Stopping for Proxy Means Testing

Tim Julian Ohlenburg, Juul Pinxten, Daniel Fricke and Fabio Caccioli

10254: Combining Remote Sensing and Cell Phone Users’ Mobility Data to Monitor the Impact of Transportation on NO2 Concentrations in India

Corbett Alden Grainger, Adam Eliot Theising and Fan Zhang

10253: Capturing the Educational and Economic Impacts of School Closures in Poland

Tomasz Gajderowicz, Maciej Jakubowski, Harry Patrinos and Sylwia Michalina Wrona

10252: Program Targeting with Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data: Evidence from an Anti-Poverty Intervention in Afghanistan

Emily L. Aiken, Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Joshua Evan Blumenstock and Aidan Coville

10251: Asset Transfers and Anti-Poverty Programs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Sarah Jane Baird, Craig Mcintosh, Berk Özler and Utz Pape

10250: Field and Natural Experiments in Migration

David McKenzie and Dean Yang

10249: Did the 2018 Trade War Improve Job Opportunities for US Workers ?

Beata Javorcik, Katherine Anne Stapleton, Benjamin Robert Kett and O’Kane,Layla

10248: Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru's Anchoveta Fishery

Aaron Gabriel Ratliffe Englander

10247: Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Rural Sudan

Haseeb Ali, Alvin Etang Ndip, Habtamu Neda Fuje and Sering Touray

10246: Reversing the Trend of Stunting in Sudan: Opportunities for Human Capital Development through Multisectoral Approaches

Alvin Etang Ndip and Sering Touray

10245: Women Empowerment for Poverty and Inequality Reduction in Sudan

Eiman Adil Mohamed Osman, Alvin Etang Ndip and Daniel John Kirkwood

10244: Towards a More Inclusive Economy: Understanding the Barriers Sudanese Women and Youth Face in Accessing Employment Opportunities

Alvin Etang Ndip, Jonna Maria Lundvall, Eiman Adil Mohamed Osman and Jennifer Solveig Wistrand

10243: Shocks and Household Welfare in Sudan

Alvin Etang Ndip and Sering Touray

10242: Interviewer Design Effects in Household Surveys: Evidence from Sudan

Alvin Etang Ndip, Habtamu Neda Fuje and Christopher Nathanael Root

10241: A Proxy Means Test for Targeted Social Protection Programs in Sudan

Alvin Etang Ndip, Paul Alan Ervin and Suleiman Namara

10240: Wave Reduction by Mangroves during Cyclones in Bangladesh: Implementing Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Resilience

Alejandra Gijón Mancheño, Vincent Vuik, Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck, Jonkman,S.N. (Bas), Roelof Moll, Swarna Kazi, Ignacio M. Urrutia Duarte and Mathijs Van Ledden

10239: The Effects of Childcare on Women and Children: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Burkina Faso

Kehinde Ajayi, Aziz Dao and Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube

10238: Legacies of Conflict: Experiences, Self-efficacy and the Formation of Conditional Trust

Niklas Buehren, Markus P. Goldstein, Imran Rasul and Andrea Smurra

10237: Scarcity Nationalism during COVID-19: Identifying the Impact on Trade Costs

Peter Egger, Gerard Masllorens, Nadia Patrizia Rocha Gaffurri and Michele Ruta

10236: Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Cities

Charl Jooste, Ted Paul Loch Temzelides, James Sampi and Hasan Dudu

10235: Give Me a Pass: Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia

Lasse Florian Brune, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

10234: Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment ? Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Martin Abel, Eliana Carranza, Kimberly Jean Geronimo and Maria Elena Ortega Hesles

10233: Deconstructing the Missing Middle: Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kaleb Girma Abreha, Xavier Cirera, Elwyn Adriaan Robin Davies, Roberto Fattal Jaef and Hibret Maemir

10232: An Exploration of Climate-Related Financial Risks for Credit Guarantee Schemes in Europe

Pietro Calice and Jan Reinders

10231: Outlier Detection for Welfare Analysis

Federico Belotti, Giulia Mancini and Giovanni Vecchi

10230: Evening the Credit Score ? Impact of Psychometric Loan Appraisal for Women Entrepreneurs

Aly Salman Alibhai, Rachel Margaret Cassidy, Markus P. Goldstein and Sreelakshmi Papineni

10229: Revisiting Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

David B. Audretsch, Marcio Cruz and Jesica Torres Coronado

10228: Customer Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from Online Sales

Erin Munro Kelley, Gregory Lane, Matthew Giovanni Pecenco and Edward Rubin

10227: Latin America’s Growth: Looking through the Demand Glass

Augusto de la Torre and Alain Ize

10226: Cartels in Infrastructure Procurement — Evidence from Lebanon

Mounir Mahmalat and Wassim Maktabi