This paper investigates how the gold boom t h a t started in 2007 has affected socioeconomic outcomes in Burkina Faso. A simple theoretical model was developed to show the expected impacts, and these were validated by an empirical analysis. Results suggest that areas hosting gold extraction have...

We examined the impact of early childbearing on education, literacy, and labor-market outcomes of women in four African countries, using Demographic and Health Survey datasets. Cognizant of the endogeneity in this relationship, we identified the effect of teenage motherhood with individual...

We examined the labor-market participation, participation in formal jobs, and earnings of women who bore a child during their adolescent years. A woman’s decision to bear a child is influenced by such factors as her motivation and her own assessment of her productivity and labor-market...

CGE models are often combined with microsimulation (MS) models to perform distributive impact analysis for fiscal or structural policies, or external shocks. This paper describes a user-friendly Stata-based toolkit to perform microsimulations combined with CGE models in a top-down fashion. The...

Health is considered to be an extremely important component of human welfare. By the time India gained independence in 1947, achievement of good health had become an important national goal in its own right. Nevertheless, a vast public health infrastructure in India comprising of 145,000...