Using administrative criminal records from Texas, this paper shows how high temperatures affect the decision making of police officers, prosecutors, and judges. It finds that police reduce the number of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10776Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Behrer,Arnold Patrick ;
Bolotnyy,Valentin
Digital enablement and inclusion have proved to be the most impactful tools for transforming human interactions. Without disregarding demand-side enablement, one of the key supply-side considerations which...
Type: ReportReport#: 192128Date: May 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper explores the evolution and resilience of global value chains (GVCs) in the agrifood sector, which intensified since the 1994 Uruguay Round Agreement. Using unique data from the FactSet database,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10774Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Beck,Anne Helene ;
Lim, Sunghun ;
Taglioni,Daria
Established in 2014, the World Bank Tokyo Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Hub was launched in acknowledgement of the learning emerging from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Operating under...
Type: BriefReport#: 190257Date: May 15, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper investigates whether the minimum wage policy significantly reduced poverty in Java Island, Indonesia, between 2002 and 2014. Its identification strategy exploits variation in minimum wages over...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 197040Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Merdikawati, Nurina ;
Al Izzati, Ridho
Botswana has sprinted to become an upper-middle income (UMIC) economy largely thanks to strong institutions and mineral resource revenue. Living conditions have steadily improved since independence as...
Type: ReportReport#: 190489Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Victoria Monchuk ;
Elizabeth Ninan Dulvy ;
Saima Malik ;
Jutta Franz ;
Faith Makhosazana ;
Phelakwakhe Mamba ;
Kenneth Munge Kabubei ;
Usama Zafar
This article evaluates the impact of facilitated discussions about girls’ education on education outcomes for students in rural Zimbabwe. The staggered implementation of components of a randomized education...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 197047Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Cotton, Christopher S. ;
Nordstrom, Ardyn ;
Nanowski, Jordan ;
Richert, Eric
Adoption of digital technologies is widely acknowledged to boost productivity and employment, stimulate investment, and promote growth and development. Africa has already benefited from a rapid diffusion...
Type: ReportReport#: 190277Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Vargas Da Cruz,Marcio Jose
Although access to reliable electricity enables manufacturing companies to increase their output, there have been few studies of the distribution of output growth between export and domestic markets. Although...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10770Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Kaba,Kabinet ;
Tchana Tchana,Fulbert
Haba Haba, which means “bit by bit” in Swahili, is a voluntary pension scheme in Kenya for workers in informal employment and promises to be a scheme through which they can slowly but surely save for their...
Type: ReportReport#: 190258Date: May 15, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper explores new firm-level data to examine the gender gap in technology adoption and the associated effect on firm performance. The data show a small difference in technology sophistication between...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10771Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Cirera,Xavier ;
Vargas Da Cruz,Marcio Jose ;
Soares Martins Neto,Antonio ;
Lee,Kyungmin ;
Gomes Nogueira,Caroline
This paper investigates the effect of a unique child labor ban regulation on employment and school enrollment. The ban, implemented in Mexico in 2015, increased the minimum working age from 14 to 15, introduced...
The NUSAF project was implemented from 2016 – 2021 and the projectclosed in June 2021. A follow-up operation is under preparation that has expandedgeographic scope and expansion of disaster risk financing...
Despite evidence that women’s political preferences differ from those of men, women are less likely to participate in political and social discussions on Twitter and other social media. Following recent...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10769Date: May 14, 2024Author:
Heath,Rachel ;
Van Der Weide,Roy
The Guinea-Bissau Economic Update monitors significant recent economic developments in the country, highlighting the key structural challenges Guinea-Bissau faces in its pursuit of inclusive and sustained...
Type: Economic Updates and ModelingReport#: 190172Date: May 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
This course has been commissioned explicitly to examine three areas of occupational safety, occupational health, and violence and harassment from the perspective of gender and any differential risks that...
Type: BriefReport#: 190177Date: May 14, 2024Author:
World Bank
The significance of this diagnostic work stems from the fact that it is the first of its kind to be carried out under the One Health perspective in Sudan. The study aligns with the World Bank’s growing...
Type: ReportReport#: 190180Date: May 14, 2024Author:
Dora Nsuwa Cudjoe ;
Nada Amin
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