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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

Maccini, Sharon - 2010

How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...

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Can at Scale Drug Provision Improve the Health of the Targeted in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Lucas, Adrienne - 2017

The single largest item in the United States foreign aid health budget is antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected epidemiological effects of this at scale drug provision. We provide...

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Fintech in Sub-Saharan Africa : What Has Worked Well, and What Hasn't

Yermack, David L. - 2018

The FinTech sector has begun to grow rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa. I document far greater adoption of social media, digital currency, ride sharing, and other FinTech applications in countries with a common law legal heritage compared to those with a civil law system, suggesting that legal...

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Schooling, Wealth, Risky Sexual Behavior, and Hiv/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lucas, Adrienne M. - 2018

Economic growth and development have improved human health in many regions, while sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag … behind. Economic theory and the existing empirical evidence suggest that development may not generate large reductions in the …

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Trade Policy and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rodrik, Dani - 2021

This study focuses on the role of trade and trade policy in achieving sustained long-term growth in Africa. One major conclusion is that trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa works much the same way that it does elsewhere. High levels of trade restrictions have been an important obstacle to exports...

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The Impact of the Aids Pandemic on Health Services in Africa : Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys

Case, Anne - 2012

We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunization for children born between...

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The African Growth Miracle

Young, Alwyn - 2012

Measures of real consumption based upon the ownership of durable goods, the quality of housing, the health and mortality of children, the education of youth and the allocation of female time in the household indicate that sub-Saharan living standards have, for the past two decades, been growing...

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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa

Rainer, Ilia - 2012

The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...

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How is Power Shared in Africa?

Francois, Patrick - 2012

This paper presents new evidence on the power sharing layout of national political elites in a panel of African countries, most of them autocracies. We present a model of coalition formation across ethnic groups and structurally estimate it employing data on the ethnicity of cabinet ministers...

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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin - 2012

population density appears to be considerably more important for banking sector development in Africa than elsewhere. To better … focus on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in recent years. We find a … that has hindered the development of inclusive financial sectors in many other African countries …

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