De Mel, Suresh, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff (2012). “The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka”, _American Economic Journal: Applied Economics_ , forthcoming.

De Soto, Hernando. (1989). _The Other Path_ , New York: Harper and Row Publishers.

Djankov, Simeon, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Schleifer (2002). “The Regulation of Entry,” _Quarterly Journal of Economics_ , 117(1): 1-37.

Fajnzylber, Pablo, William Maloney and Gabriel Montes-Rojas (2011). “Does formality improve micro-firm performance? Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES program”, _Journal of Development Economics_ 94: 262-76.

Fink, Günther, Margaret McConnell and Sebatian Vollmer (2012) “Testing for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Experimental Data: False Discovery Risks and Correction Procedures”, Mimeo. Harvard School of Public Health.

Gibson, John and David McKenzie (2007) “Using the Global Positioning System (GPS) in Household Surveys for Better Economics and Better Policy”, _World Bank Research Observer_ , 22(2): 21741.

Groh, Matthew, Nandini Krishnan, David McKenzie and Tara Vishwanath, (2012). “Soft skills or hard cash? The impact of training and wage subsidy programs on female youth employment in Jordan”, _World Bank Policy Research Working Paper_ no. 6141.

International Finance Corporation (IFC) (2009). _Doing Business 2010: Reforming through difficult times_ . IFC: Washington, D.C.

Jaramillo, Miguel, (2009). “Is there demand for formality among informal firms? Evidence from microfirms in downtown Lima”, German Development Institute Discussion Paper 12/2009.

Kaplan, David, Eduardo Piedra, and Enrique Seira. (2011). “Entry regulation and business startups: Evidence from Mexico” _Journal of Public Economics_ 95(11-12): 1501-15.

Klapper, Leora, Luc Laeven and Raghuram Rajan. (2006). “Entry regulation as a barrier to entrepreneurship”, _Journal of Financial Economics_ 82(3): 591-629.

Kling, Jeffrey and Jeffrey Liebman (2004). “Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth”, Working Paper 483, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University.

La Porta, Rafael and Andrei Shleifer. (2008). “The Unofficial economy and economic development”, _Brookings Papers on Economic Activity_ 2: 275-363.

Levy, Santiago, (2008), _Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico_ , Washington: Brookings Institution Press.

Maloney, William. (2004). “Informality Revisited”, _World Development_ 32(7): 1159-78.

McKenzie, David and Yaye Seynabou Sakho. (2010). “Does it pay firms to register for taxes? The impact of formality on firm profitability”, _Journal of Development Economics_ 91(1): 15-24.

Monteiro, Joana and Juliano Assunção (2011). “Coming out of the shadows? Examining the impact of bureaucracy simplification and tax cut on formality in Brazilian microenterprises”, _Journal of Development Economics_ , forthcoming.

Mullainathan, Sendhil and Philipp Schnabl, (2010). “Does less market entry regulation generate more entrepreneurs? Evidence from a Regulatory reform in Peru”, pp. 159-177 in Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar (eds.) _International Differences in Entrepreneurship_ , National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.

28