Forhad Shilpi

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1.

Estimating Import Demand Function in Developing Countries: A Structural Econometric Approach with Applications to India and Sri Lanka

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Aug 2007
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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import demand, foreign exchange rationing, virtual price, India, Sri Lanka, cointegration

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After the 'License Raj': Economic Liberalization and Aggregate Private Investment in India

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Aug 2003
M. Shahe Emran, M. Imam Alam and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, University of Northern Iowa - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Private Investment, India, Economic Liberalization, ARDL

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Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-Run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh

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Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-Run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Oct 2015
Claudia N. Berg, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
International Monetary Fund (IMF), George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Microfinance, Moneylenders, Microcredit, Interest Rates, Informal Borrowing, Long-run Effects, Bangladesh, Identification through Heteroskedasticity

Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-Run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2013
Claudia N. Berg, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
International Monetary Fund (IMF), George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Microfinance, Moneylenders, Microcredit, Competition, Interest Rate, Informal Borrowing, Bangladesh

Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-Run Effects of Mfis on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6619
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Claudia N. Berg, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
International Monetary Fund (IMF), George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Access to Finance, Debt Markets, Banks & Banking Reform, Economic Theory & Research, Emerging Markets

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Foreign Trade Regimes and Import Demand Function: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 May 2002
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Import Demand, Trade Policy, Sri Lanka, Cointegration, Intertemporal Substitution

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Marketing Externalities and Market Development

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Forhad Shilpi and M. Shahe Emran
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and George Washington University - Department of Economics
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Where to Sell? Market Facilities and Agricultural Marketing

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4455
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Forhad Shilpi and Dina Umali-Deininger
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Markets and Market Access, Transport Economics Policy & Planning, Debt Markets, Access to Markets, Housing & Human Habitats

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Job Fairs: Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8092
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 13 Jun 2017
Girum Tefera Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn and Forhad Shilpi
Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), University of Oxford, Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), University of Oxford and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Labor Policies, Rural Labor Markets

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The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization

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The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Aug 2007
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Structural Change, Agriculture, Crop Specialization, The Extent of the Market, Market versus Home Production, Commercialization

The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4534
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Transport Economics Policy & Planning, Markets and Market Access, Political Economy, Debt Markets, Crops & Crop Management Systems

The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization

Canadian Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 05 Sep 2010
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

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Admission is Free Only If Your Dad is Rich! Distributional Effects of Corruption in Schools in Developing Countries

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Admission is Free Only If Your Dad is Rich! Distributional Effects of Corruption in Schools in Developing Countries

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2013
M. Shahe Emran, Asad Islam and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, Monash University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Corruption, Bribes, Education, Schools, Inequality, Income Effect, Bargaining Power, Regressive Effects.

Admission is Free Only If Your Dad is Rich! Distributional Effects of Corruption in Schools in Developing Countries

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6671
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
M. Shahe Emran, Asad Islam and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, Monash University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Rural Poverty Reduction, Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures, Labor Policies, Inequality, Economic Theory & Research

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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India

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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 15 Apr 2020
M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, University of North Texas - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Gender Bias, Intergenerational Mobility, Education, Becker-Tomes Model, Complementarity, Son Preference, India, China, Coresidency Bias

Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from China and India

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9250
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 19 May 2020 Last Revised: 26 May 2020
M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, University of North Texas - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Educational Sciences, Gender and Development, Economics of Education, Rural Labor Markets, Labor Markets, Inequality

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Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2023
M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, University of North Texas - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Gender Bias, Intergenerational Mobility, Education, Becker-Tomes Model, Heterogeneity, Son Preference, Unwanted Girls, India, Patrilineal, Matrilineal, Coresidency Bias

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Gender, Geography and Generations: Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-Reform India

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Gender, Geography and Generations: Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-Reform India

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6055
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Population Policies, Primary Education, Education and Society, Population & Development, Rural Development Knowledge & Information Systems

Gender, Geography and Generations: Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-Reform India

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 Apr 2012
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Intergenerational Mobility, Education, Equality of Opportunity, Sibling Correlation, Intergenerational Correlation, Economic Liberalization, Rural-Urban Inequality, Gender Gap, India

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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in a Rural Economy

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Jul 2007
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Intergenerational Occupational Correlations, Non-Farm Participation, Gender effect, Cultural Inheritance, Selection on Observables, Selection on Unobservables

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Determinants of Choice of Migration Destination

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4728
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi
Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Population Policies, Economic Theory & Research, Transport Economics Policy & Planning, Inequality

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General Equilibrium Effects of Land Market Restrictions on Labor Market: Evidence from Wages in Sri Lanka

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General Equilibrium Effects of Land Market Restrictions on Labor Market: Evidence from Wages in Sri Lanka

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5461
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Transport Economics Policy & Planning, Political Economy, Population Policies, Urban Housing and Land Settlements, National Urban Development Policies & Strategies

General Equilibrium Effects of Land Market Restrictions on Labor Market: Evidence from Wages in Sri Lanka

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 07 May 2013
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Policy Restrictions in Land Market, Sales Restriction, Rental Restriction, Labor Market, Wages, General Equilibrium Effect, Interaction Effect, Travel Time, Malaria, Sri Lanka

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Estimating Intergenerational Mobility with Incomplete Data: Coresidency and Truncation Bias in Rank-Based Relative and Absolute Mobility Measures

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Estimating Intergenerational Mobility with Incomplete Data: Coresidency and Truncation Bias in Rank-Based Relative and Absolute Mobility Measures

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Aug 2017
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Rank correlation, Rank-based Absolute Mobility, Coresidency, Truncation Bias, Intergenerational Mobility, Developing Countries, Intergenerational Regression Coefficient (IGRC), Intergenerational Correlation (IGC), Bangladesh, India

Estimating Intergenerational Mobility with Incomplete Data: Coresidency and Truncation Bias in Rank-Based Relative and Absolute Mobility Measures

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8414
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Apr 2018
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Educational Sciences, Labor & Employment Law, Gender and Development, Inequality, Public Sector Management and Reform

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Gender, Generations, and Non-Farm Participation

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Jul 2003
M. Shahe Emran, Misuzu Otsuka and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Intergenerational Correlations, Non-Farm Participation, Gender Effect, Two Stage Conditional Maximum Likelihood

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Is Black Market Exchange Rate a Good Indicator of Equilibrium Exchange Rate? A Simple Test with Evidence from South Asia

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 15 Feb 2010
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Black Market Exchange Rate, Premium, Equilibrium Exchange Rate, India, Sri Lanka

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Transport Costs, Comparative Advantage, and Agricultural Development: Evidence from Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh

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Transport Costs, Comparative Advantage, and Agricultural Development: Evidence from Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 May 2018
Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Lu Xu
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), George Washington University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank
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Bridge, Jamuna River, Bangladesh, Land Reallocation, Technology Adoption, Cropping Intensity, Agricultural Development

Transport Costs, Comparative Advantage, and Agricultural Development: Evidence from Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8509
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Aug 2018
Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Lu Xu
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), George Washington University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank
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Transport Services, Climate Change and Agriculture, Crops and Crop Management Systems, International Trade and Trade Rules, Food Security, Hydrology

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The Spatial Division of Labor in Nepal

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Forhad Shilpi and Marcel Fafchamps
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss: Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 28 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2022
Md Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad Shilpi
Saint Louis University - Department of Economics, George Washington University - Department of Economics, University of North Texas - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Conditional Variance, Family Background, Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Risk Adjusted Mobility Measures, China, India, Indonesia

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Bridge to Bigpush or Backwash? Market Integration, Reallocation, and Productivity Effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh

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Bridge to Bigpush or Backwash? Market Integration, Reallocation, and Productivity Effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 May 2018
Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Lu Xu
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), George Washington University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank
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Core-Periphery, Density, Deindustrialization, Agricultural Productivity, Bridge, Bigpush, Backwash, Agglomeration

Bridge to Bigpush or Backwash? Market Integration, Reallocation, and Productivity Effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8508
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 28 Aug 2018
Brian Blankespoor, M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi and Lu Xu
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), George Washington University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank
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Food Security, Construction Industry, Common Carriers Industry, Food & Beverage Industry, Plastics & Rubber Industry, Pulp & Paper Industry, Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies, General Manufacturing, Textiles, Apparel & Leather Industry, International Trade and Trade Rules, Transport Services

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Spatial Specialization and Farm-Nonfarm Linkages

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4611
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Uwe Deichmann, Forhad Shilpi and Renos Vakis
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and The World Bank
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Transport Economics Policy & Planning, Rural Poverty Reduction, Crops & Crop Management Systems, Labor Policies

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Voting with Their Feet? Access to Infrastructure and Migration in Nepal

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7047
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Forhad Shilpi, Prem Sangraula and Yue Li
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank
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Social Cohesion

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When Measure Matters: Coresidency, Truncation Bias, and Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7608
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
M. Shahe Emran, William H. Greene and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, New York University Stern School of Business and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
Downloads 92 (477,552)
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Poverty Impact Evaluation, Educational Sciences, Poverty Assessment, Poverty Diagnostics, Poverty Monitoring & Analysis, Poverty Lines, Small Area Estimation Poverty Mapping

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Do Land Market Restrictions Hinder Structural Change in a Rural Economy? Evidence from Sri Lanka

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Do Land Market Restrictions Hinder Structural Change in a Rural Economy? Evidence from Sri Lanka

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Aug 2015
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Land Market Restrictions, Structural Change, Agriculture vs. non-farm, Migration Costs, Labor Market, Non-agricultural Employment, Poverty, Historical Malaria

Do Land Market Restrictions Hinder Structural Change in a Rural Economy? Evidence from Sri Lanka

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7525
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2018
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Communicable Diseases, Malaria, Cholera, Leprosy, Food Security, Employment and Unemployment, Common Carriers Industry, General Manufacturing, Construction Industry, Food & Beverage Industry, Textiles, Apparel & Leather Industry, Pulp & Paper Industry, Plastics & Rubber Industry, Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies, Regulatory Regimes, Legislation, Legal Reform, Judicial System Reform, Social Policy, Common Property Resource Development, Legal Products

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

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 01 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2023
Md Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang, Qingyang Han and Forhad Shilpi
Saint Louis University - Department of Economics, George Washington University - Department of Economics, University of North Texas - Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Sibling Correlation, Intergenerational Mobility, Education, Years of Schooling, Developing Countries, Intergenerational Share, Decomposition, DHS

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Migration, Sorting and Regional Inequality: Evidence from Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4616
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Forhad Shilpi
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Population Policies, Access to Finance, Rural Poverty Reduction, Poverty Lines, Debt Markets

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When Measures Conflict: Towards a Better Understanding of Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 Sep 2022
Md Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang, Orla Murphy and Forhad Shilpi
Saint Louis University - Department of Economics, George Washington University - Department of Economics, University of North Texas - Department of Economics, Dalhousie University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Relative Mobility, Alternative Measures, IGRC, IGC, Rank-Rank Slope, Conflicting Evidence, China, India, Indonesia, Policy Advice

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Beyond Dualism: Agricultural Productivity, Small Towns, and Structural Change in Bangladesh

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Beyond Dualism: Agricultural Productivity, Small Towns, and Structural Change in Bangladesh

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 Jan 2017
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Agricultural Productivity, Small Town Economy, Dualism, Employment in Large Firms, Employment Growth, Structural Transformation

Beyond Dualism: Agricultural Productivity, Small Towns, and Structural Change in Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8087
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2018
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Construction Industry, General Manufacturing, Textiles, Apparel & Leather Industry, Pulp & Paper Industry, Plastics & Rubber Industry, Food & Beverage Industry, Common Carriers Industry, Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies, Food Security, Educational Sciences, Employment and Unemployment, Health Care Services Industry

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Agricultural Productivity and Non-Farm Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7685
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2018
Forhad Shilpi and Shahe Emran
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Columbia University
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Construction Industry, Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies, Common Carriers Industry, Textiles, Apparel & Leather Industry, Pulp & Paper Industry, Plastics & Rubber Industry, Food & Beverage Industry, General Manufacturing, Labor Markets, Food Security, Employment and Unemployment

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The Rural-Urban Divide and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in a Developing Country: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Oct 2020
Md Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
St. Louis University, George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Rural-Urban Divide, Complementarity, Convexity, Returns to Education, School Quality, Peer and Role Model Effects, Coresidency, Sample Truncation, Ability Heterogeneity

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Do Consumers Benefit from Supply Chain Intermediaries? Evidence from a Policy Experiment in the Edible Oils Market in Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7745
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 Jul 2016
M. Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and Md. Khayer Uddin
George Washington University - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and University of Dhaka - Department of Accounting & Information Systems
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Food Security, Agricultural Trade, Trade and Agriculture

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Complementarities and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 06 Feb 2022
Md Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
St. Louis University, George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility, Complementarity, Convex Mobility Curve, School Quality, Rural-Urban Divide, Returns to Education, Coresidency, Sample Truncation, Ability Heterogeneity, Developing Countries, Indonesia

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Agricultural Productivity, Hired Labor, Wages, and Poverty: Evidence from Bangladesh

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2016
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Agricultural Productivity, Home Production, Market Work, Wage, Hired Labor, Labor Supply Response, Poverty

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Temporary Trade Shocks, Spatial Reallocation, and Persistence in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa

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Temporary Trade Shocks, Spatial Reallocation, and Persistence in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Jun 2019
M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi, Harold Coulombe and Brian Blankespoor
George Washington University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Temporary Trade Restrictions, Regional Development, Structural Change in Employment, Persistence, Path-Dependence, Built-up Density, Skill Agglomeration, Provision of Electricity, Night-Lights

Temporary Trade Shocks, Spatial Reallocation, and Persistence in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8962
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2019
M. Shahe Emran, Forhad Shilpi, Harold Coulombe and Brian Blankespoor
George Washington University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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International Trade and Trade Rules, Construction Industry, Common Carriers Industry, Food & Beverage Industry, General Manufacturing, Pulp & Paper Industry, Textiles, Apparel & Leather Industry, Plastics & Rubber Industry, Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies, Armed Conflict, Transport Services, Food Security

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Isolation and Subjective Welfare: Evidence from South Asia

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4535
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi
Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Transport Economics Policy &Planning, Economic Theory &Research, Health Monitoring &Evaluation, Consumption, Inequality

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Public Primary School Expansion, Gender-based Crowding Out, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 13 May 2022 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Md Nazmul Ahsan, Forhad Shilpi and M. Shahe Emran
Saint Louis University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and George Washington University - Department of Economics
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Public Schools, Intergenerational Mobility, Education, Theory-based Nonlinearity, Indonesia, Pitfalls of Linearity, Gender Bias, Social Norms, Big Data

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When Measure Matters: Coresident Sample Selection Bias in Estimating Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Aug 2015
M. Shahe Emran, William H. Greene and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, New York University Stern School of Business and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Coresidency, Sample Selection Bias, Intergenerational Mobility, Intergenerational Regression Coefficient (IGRC), Intergenerational Correlation (IGC), Bangladesh, India

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Distributional Effects of Corruption When Enforcement is Biased: Theory and Evidence from Bribery in Schools in Bangladesh

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2019
M. Shahe Emran, Asad Islam and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics, Monash University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Corruption, Bribes, Schools, Refusal to pay model, deterrence to bribe demand model, Inequality, Income Effect, Bargaining Power, Regressive Effects, Educational Mobility

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Understanding the Sources of Spatial Disparity and Convergence: Evidence from Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6519
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Forhad Shilpi
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Regional Economic Development, Housing & Human Habitats, Rural Poverty Reduction, Transport Economics Policy & Planning, Population Policies

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Land Market Restrictions, Women's Labor Force Participation, and Wages in a Rural Economy

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7524
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2018
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Communicable Diseases, Cholera, Leprosy, Malaria, Labor Markets, Rural Labor Markets, Regulatory Regimes, Legislation, Legal Reform, Judicial System Reform, Social Policy, Common Property Resource Development, Legal Products, Educational Sciences

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Agricultural Productivity, Hired Labor, Wages and Poverty: Evidence from Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7056
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
Columbia University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Employment and Shared Growth, Rural Labor Markets, Equity and Development, Social Protections & Assistance, Achieving Shared Growth, Labor Markets, Rural Poverty Reduction Strategies, Pro-Poor Growth, Rural Poverty Reduction

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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Jun 2017
M. Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin
George Washington University - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and University of Dhaka
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Intermediary, Supply Chain, Market Power, Credit Rationing, Pass-Through, Edible Oils, Bangladesh

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Gold Mining and Proto-Urbanization: Recent Evidence from Ghana

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7347
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Rene Koelle and Forhad Shilpi
Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, University of Oxford and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Urban Economic Development, Economic Theory & Research, City to City Alliances, Economic Growth, Urban Communities, National Urban Development Policies & Strategies, Urban Economics, Industrial Economics, Regional Urban Development

46.

Microfinance, Moneylenders, and Economic Shocks: An Assessment of the Bangladesh Experience

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Dec 2021
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Microfinance, Microcredit, Moneylenders, Interest rate, Cream Skimming, Economic Shocks, Flexible Loan Contract, Seasonal Hunger, Monga, Missing Markets

47.

Land Market Restrictions, Women's Labor Force Participation and Wages

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Aug 2014
M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi
George Washington University - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Land Market Restrictions, Labor Market, Women's Labor Force Participation, Wage, Sri Lanka, Historical Malaria

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Opportunity and Risk

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 09 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
Md Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad Shilpi
Saint Louis University - Department of Economics, George Washington University - Department of Economics, University of North Texas - Department of Economics and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Lifetime Risks, Conditional Variance, Intergenerational Mobility, Risk-adjusted Relative and Absolute Mobility, Education, China, India, Indonesia

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Subjective Welfare, Isolation and Relative Consumption

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6002
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Mar 2007
Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi
Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Subjective well-being, relative deprivation, rivalry

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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

NBER Working Paper No. w26615
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin
Columbia University, Boston University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and University of Dhaka
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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14272
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Jan 2020
Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin
Columbia University, Boston University - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and University of Dhaka
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Bangladesh, Credit rationing, Edible Oils, intermediary, market power, Pass-Through, Supply Chain

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Isolation and Subjective Welfare

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6001
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Mar 2007
Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi
Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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Geographical isolation, consumption adequacy, subjective well-being

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Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7407
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Sep 2009
Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi
Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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income differentials, migration, south Asia

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Education and Household Welfare

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9713
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 08 Nov 2013
Marcel Fafchamps and Forhad Shilpi
Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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child welfare, marriage market, Nepal, parental education, South Asia

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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Rural Economy: Evidence from Nepal and Vietnam

Journal of Human Resources, Forthcoming
Posted: 05 Sep 2010
Forhad Shilpi and M. Shahe Emran
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and George Washington University - Department of Economics

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Intergenerational Occupational Correlations, Non-Farm Participation, Gender effect, Cultural Inheritance, Selection on Observables, Selection on Unobservables