Countering COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
has been a challenge in Saudi Arabia, one of the countries
affected most by the pandemic in the Eastern Mediterranean
Region. Aims:...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189324Date: April 18, 2024Author:
Lim,Jungkyu Rhys ;
Moscoe,Ellen Elizabeth ;
Ada Alqunaibet ;
Pinzon Hernandez,Daniel Alejandro ;
Amaal Alruwaily ;
Chatila,Mohamad ;
Rasha Alfawaz ;
Zoratto,Laura De Castro ;
Afif,Zeina ;
Vakis,Renos ;
Berq J Hadi Al-Yasseri ;
Alsukait,Reem Fahad M ;
Nguyen,Son Nam ;
Herbst,Christopher H.
Where and when does export-led growth
work? This paper estimates the importance of inter-industry
productivity spillovers for the export-led growth of
developing countries....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189847Date: January 30, 2024Author:
Marijn A. Bolhuis
In 1992, Pakistan equalized admissions
criteria for women and men applying to medical schools,
causing a rapid increase in the female share of medical
graduates. Using...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189824Date: January 3, 2024Author:
Fatima Aqeel
There is growing awareness that actions
by policymakers and international organizations to reduce
poverty, and those to mitigate and adapt to climate change,
are inextricably...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 187523Date: December 30, 2023Author:
Lankes,Hans Peter ;
Macquarie, Rob ;
Soubeyran, Éléonore ;
Stern,Nicholas H.
How do agricultural productivity gains
affect the distribution of agricultural land? Exploiting
three waves of census data from the Philippines covering 21
years and...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189845Date: December 26, 2023Author:
Bequet,Ludovic Michel C
A supply chain is only as strong as its
weakest link. Firms are constantly managing uncertainties,
including unexpected delays in the provision of a critical
input that...
The paper examines the effect of a
primary education program in Benin on women’s
marital outcomes. The study leverages a sharp increase in
the construction of...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 187517Date: December 1, 2023Author:
Deschenes,Sarah Chloe ;
Hotte,Rozenn Anne Lucienne
This study estimates the effects of
South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant on
well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With household-level
data collected before...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189843Date: November 23, 2023Author:
Mo Alloush ;
Bloem,Jeffrey Richard ;
J. G. Malacarne
Many low, and middle-income countries
have introduced public works programs (PWPs) to fight
poverty. This paper provides the first evidence that
children from families...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189837Date: November 13, 2023Author:
Richard Freund ;
Favara,Marta ;
Lambert-Porter,Emma Catherine ;
Behrman,Jere R.
Resource misallocation has the potential
to reduce aggregate total factor productivity and undermine
industrial development. Aggregate productivity losses are
found...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189829Date: November 10, 2023Author:
Godfrey Kamutando ;
Edwards,Lawrence James
This paper investigates whether the 1998
Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from
14 to 16 lowered child labor and increased school attendance
and...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189827Date: November 8, 2023Author:
Piza,Caio ;
André Portela Souza ;
Patrick M. Emerson ;
Amorim,Vivian De Fatima
Interference across competing firms in
RCTs can be informative about market structure. An
experiment that subsidizes a random sub-set of traders who
buy cocoa from farmers...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 185247Date: October 16, 2023Author:
Casaburi,Lorenzo ;
Reed,Tristan
Health systems’ weakness
remains one of the primary obstacles towards achieving
universal access to quality healthcare in low-income
settings. Performance-based...
The Food Insecurity Experience Scale
(FIES), which combines three food-access dimensions into a
single indicator, is rapidly being incorporated into
national statistical...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189831Date: October 12, 2023Author:
Lain,Jonathan William ;
Tandon,Sharad Alan ;
Vishwanath,Tara
Despite decades of economic growth,
gender disparities in South Asia remain remarkably high.
Although not the only one, social norms are a crucial driver
of various...
Previous literature shows minor impacts
of in-person business training in developing countries, but
few papers study the effectiveness of digital training. A
research...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189838Date: September 22, 2023Author:
Estefan Davila,Manuel Alejandro ;
Martina Improta ;
Romina Ordoñez ;
Winters,Paul Conal
This study estimates the relative
importance of alternative supply and demand mechanisms in
explaining the rise of female labor-force participation
(FLFP) over the last...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 189826Date: September 7, 2023Author:
Bhalotra,Sonia Radhika ;
Manuel Fernández
This study explores whether hospitals
with higher increases in obesity levels have higher cesarean
section (CS) rates and the consequential effects on maternal
and newborn...
The main challenge in studying
inequality is limited data availability, which is
particularly problematic in developing countries. This study
constructs a measure of...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186393Date: August 25, 2023Author:
Jaqueson K. Galimberti ;
Stefan Pichler ;
Pleninger,Regina
This article revisits the Portfolio
Theory of Inflation (PTI), with a view to further
articulating its findings and implications. The article adds
to the micro-foundations...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 185263Date: August 11, 2023Author:
Bossone,Biagio
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