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.
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.
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
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...
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
Does ambient infrastructural quality
affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing
countries? This paper investigates how the arrival of
high-speed internet in...
Why do richer countries spend a higher
share of their income on social protection than poor
countries? A newly assembled dataset on social protection
spending for 142...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186401Date: August 8, 2023Author:
Lokshin,Michael M. ;
Ravallion,Martin ;
Torre,Ivan
Biased beliefs about future labor-market
earnings are commonplace. Based on a longitudinal survey of
graduate work transitions in Mozambique, this study assesses
the...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 187529Date: July 27, 2023Author:
Jones,Edward Samuel ;
Santos,Ricardo Ribeiro ;
Gimelgo Xirinda
This paper presents a model where
misallocation in the agricultural factors of production is
caused by transportation costs to and from local markets,
which result in...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186391Date: July 6, 2023Author:
Bruno Morando
This paper assesses the impact of an
information dissemination intervention on the local-level
implementation of the rural public works program in India.
One key feature...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186256Date: April 29, 2023Author:
Upasak Das ;
Amartya Paul ;
Sharma,Mohit-000597229
Temporary migration is widespread
globally. While the literature has traditionally focused on
the impacts of permanent migration on destination countries,
evidence on...
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