Documents et rapports
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The Mismeasure of Weather : Using Remotely Sensed Earth Observation Data in Economic Contexts (anglais)
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11015 Date du document: 7 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Josephson,Anna,Michler,Jeffrey D.,Talip Kilic,Siobhan Murray
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Crops, Conflict and Climate Change (anglais)
This paper studies the welfare impacts of agricultural shocks on households with detailed heterogeneity, by taking consumption, land, and labor allocation choices into account. The underlying model is...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11018 Date du document: 7 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Erhan Artuc,Porto,Guido,Bob Rijkers
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Crisis Credit, Employment Protection, Indebtedness, and Risk (anglais)
This paper studies how credit guarantee and employment protection programs interact in assisting firms during crises times. The paper analyzes how these government programs influence credit allocation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10958 Date du document: 24 octobre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Huneeus,Federico,Kaboski,Joseph P.,Larrain,Mauricio,Sergio Schmukler,Vera,Mario
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It Takes a Village Election : Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies (anglais)
In many countries, local governments struggle with inefficiency and corruption, often perpetuated by entrenched elites. This paper explores how leadership changes affect local bureaucratic performance...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10920 Date du document: 19 septembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bazzi,Samuel,Hilmy,Masyhur,Marx,Benjamin,Mahvish Ifrah Shaukat,Stegmann,Andreas
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Small Area Estimation of Poverty in Four West African Countries by Integrating Survey and Geospatial Data (anglais)
The paper presents a methodology to generate experimental small area estimates of poverty in four West African countries: Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Niger. Due to the absence of recent census data in these...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10892 Date du document: 4 septembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie,David Newhouse,Tzavidis,Nikos,Schmid,Timo,Elizabeth Mary Foster,Hernandez,Angela Luna,Aissatou Ouedraogo,Aly Sanoh,Aboudrahyme Savadogo
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Private Management of African Protected Areas Improves Wildlife and Tourism Outcomes but With Security Concerns in Conflict Regions (anglais)
Protected areas can conserve wildlife and benefit people when managed effectively. African governments increasingly delegate the management of protected areas to private, non-governmental organizations...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10874 Date du document: 20 août 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Denny,Sean,Gabriel Englander,Hunnicutt,Patrick
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Private Provisioning of Employment Services : Experimental Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina (anglais)
This paper examines the effect of compensating a private sector provider of employment services for successful placement of jobseekers with employers. Within this program, active job matching, relative...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10826 Date du document: 26 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balavac-Orlic,Merima,John T. Giles,Siddharth Hari,Mirey Ovadiya
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The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women’s Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India (anglais)
Youth unemployment and gender gaps in labor market outcomes are key policy challenges across developing countries. Young job-seekers may struggle to find jobs because of their biased beliefs and unrealistic...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10808 Date du document: 18 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: S Anukriti,Herrera-Almanza,Catalina,Sophie Ochmann
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Thriving beyond Borders ? Understanding Refugee Children’s Life Outcomes (anglais)
By 2023, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, with children under 18 constituting 45 percent. This study examines the human development gaps between forcibly displaced migrant...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10765 Date du document: 6 mai 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hiller,Tatiana,Moya,Andrés,Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana
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Reviewing Assessment Tools for Measuring Country Statistical Capacity (anglais)
Country statistical capacity is increasingly recognized as crucial for development, but no academic study exists that reviews the available assessment tools. This paper offers the first review study that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10717 Date du document: 6 mars 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Pullinger,John James,Serajuddin,Umar,Stacy,Brian William
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Recording the Time Divide : A Comparative Study of Smartphone- and Recall-Based Approaches to Time Use Measurement (anglais)
Based on a randomized survey experiment in Malawi, this study examines how innovative techniques in time use data collection could sidestep measurement concerns with traditional recall-based time use measurement...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10695 Date du document: 7 février 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kilic,Talip,Koolwal,Gayatri B.,Vundru,Wilbert Drazi,Daum,Thomas Lothar Georg,Buchwald,Hannes,Seymour,Greg,Mvula,Peter Mathias,Munthali,Alister Chaundumuka,Kachinjika,Monice
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Are Regional Fiscal Multipliers on EU Structural and Investment Fund Spending Large ? A Reassessment of the Evidence (anglais)
The European Commission’s “NextGenerationEU” COVID-19 recovery package has underscored interest in the size of regional fiscal multipliers in Europe. While the objective of these funds is the long-term...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10658 Date du document: 9 janvier 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fiuratti,Federico Ivan,Nikolova,Desislava Enikova,Pennings,Steven Michael,Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias
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Containing Tariff Evasion (anglais)
To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10606 Date du document: 14 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anne,Clement Xavier Frederik,Chalendard,Cyril Romain,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Rijkers,Bob,Vicard,Vincent
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Using Large Language Models for Qualitative Analysis can Introduce Serious Bias (anglais)
Large Language Models (LLMs) are quickly becoming ubiquitous, but the implications for social science research are not yet well understood. This paper asks whether LLMs can help us analyse large-N qualitative...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10597 Date du document: 7 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ashwin,Julian,Chhabra,Aditya,Rao,Vijayendra
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The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises : Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan (anglais)
How do proven strategies to improve the economic conditions of ultra-poor households hold up against the increasing severity and co-incidence of economic, security, and climate shocks? Five years after...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10596 Date du document: 6 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Belyakova,Yulia,Coville,Aidan,Escande,Thomas,Isaqzadeh,Mohammad,Ndiaye,Aminata
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Influence of COVID-19 on Female Sex Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : A Mixed-Methods Analysis (anglais)
This study investigates how the landscape of sex work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, evolved in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic. Using a mixed-methods approach, the analysis triangulates data from quantitative...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10572 Date du document: 26 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balampama,Marianna,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Dow,William H.,Hémono,Rebecca
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Effect of a Lottery Intervention on Gender-Based Violence among Female Sex Workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Results from a Randomized Trial (anglais)
Financial incentives are a promising approach for HIV prevention. Some studies have shown that financial incentive interventions aimed to promote positive health and social behaviors have mixed or harmful...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10573 Date du document: 26 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hémono,Rebecca,Balampama,Marianna,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Mccoy,Sandra Irene,Dow,William H.
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Effects of a Lottery Incentive on Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Incidence among Female Sex Workers in Tanzania : Results from the RESPECT II Randomized Trial (anglais)
Female sex workers are a key population who experience a disproportionately high burden of HIV and sexually transmitted infections. A growing body of evidence suggests that financial incentives can reduce...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10571 Date du document: 25 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balampama,Marianna,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Dow,William H.,Hémono,Rebecca
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Savings Facilitation or Capital Injection ? Impacts and Spillovers of Livelihood Interventions in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire (anglais)
Policy makers grapple with the optimal design of multidimensional strategies to improve poor households’ livelihoods. To address financial constraints, are capital injections needed, or is savings mobilization...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10563 Date du document: 9 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Alicia C. Marguerie,Patrick Premand
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The Internationalization of China’s Equity Markets (anglais)
The internationalization of China’s equity markets started in the early 2000s but accelerated after 2012, when Chinese firms’ shares listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen gradually became available to international...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10513 Date du document: 28 juin 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cortina Lorente,Juan Jose,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad,Schmukler,Sergio L.,Xiao,Jasmine