Ghana experienced a sharp fall in fertility of rural women after the year 1993. We believe the massive rural electrification in 1992 plays a major role in the falling fertility rates. To ascertain the role electrification plays in this fertility transition, we obtain data from the Ghana Living...

We believe the massive rural electrification, which began in 1992, played a significant role in the varying fertility rates across rural Ghana. Rural households with electricity, tend to have fewer children ever born to a woman than households without electricity. Using control function...

Experiments measuring risk and time preferences in developing countries have tended to have relatively small samples and geographically concentrated sampling. This largescale field experiment uses a Holt-Laury mechanism to elicit the preferences of 1289 randomly selected subjects from 94...