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From drug trafficking to state capture: The dynamics of criminal governance, political violence, and crime diversification

Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana - 2025

This article develops and tests a theory of criminal governance, examining how drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) use bribery and violence to dominate resource-rich regions and counter state interventions. The study draws on data on over 500 political assassinations and 156 lethal attacks on...

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The power to choose: Gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in India

Nordman, Christophe; Sharma, Smriti - 2016

approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education … educational spending; (ii) this bargaining power is associated positively (negatively) with education spending in urban (rural …

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Social transfer programmes and school enrolment in Malawi: A micro-simulation

Nanivazo, Malokele - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of social transfer programmes on school enrolment and child labour in Malawi utilizing a micro-simulation evaluation method. Four hypothetical cash transfer programmes, differentiated in terms of their conditions on children's enrolment and gender, are...

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

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Gender bias in education during conflict: Evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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Are you what you consume? Impact of food, soft drinks, and coffee on cognitive and non-cognitive test scores

Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2019

Cognitive and non-cognitive tests are key factors in many aspects of economics, especially within labour market analysis. Non-cognitive tests and personality traits are increasingly used, as these are found to be as critical as cognitive abilities for labour market outcomes, while they might be...

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Education, skill, and earnings: Further evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles; Turkson, Festus; … - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

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A unified structural equation modelling approach for the decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health

Kessels, Roselinde; Erreygers, Guido - 2015

We present a unified structural equation modelling framework for the regression-based decomposition of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural equation modelling framework forms the basis for a...

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Intergenerational mobility of education in Vietnam: Evidence from the Vietnam War

Vu, Khoa; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2019

Vietnam's education system has recently attracted international attention for exceptional learning outcomes and success … suggest that Vietnam's recent success in education is not caused by the rise in the schooling of the parents of today …

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Efficiency of commercial banks in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative analysis of domestic and foreign banks

Kiyota, Hiroyuki - 2011

Utilizing the stochastic frontier approach, this study conducts a comparative analysis of profit efficiency and cost inefficiency of commercial banks operating in 29 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries by bank ownership (domestic bank, SSA foreign bank or non-SSA foreign bank), as well as by the...

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