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Fenske, James; Zurimendi, Igor - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2015

height and increased BMI. These microeconomic impacts can be explained by macroeconomic responses to greater oil prices …

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Early Life Circumstance and Mental Health in Ghana

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Fenske, James; Nyshadham, Anant - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

We study the origins of adult mental health using early life income fluctuations. Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we show that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early life decreases the...

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Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children

Dercon, Stefan; Porter, Catherine - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2010

provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the famine twenty years later, on the height of young adults aged 17 …

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The height production function from birth to maturity

Cao, Elisabetta De - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

Height is the result of a complex process of growth that begins at birth and reaches the end in early adulthood. This … paper studies the determinants of height from birth to maturity. A height production function is specified whose structure … allows height to be the result of the accumulation of inputs (i.e., nutrition and diseases) over time. The empirical …

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Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS

Beegle, Kathleen; Weerdt, Joachim De; Dercon, Stefan - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2007

This paper uses a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and long-run consumption growth of surviving household members. Using unique data which tracks individuals from 1991 to 2004, we examine consumption growth, controlling for a set of...

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Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters

Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Serneels, Pieter - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

productivity by randomizing the temporal order at which piece-rate workers at a large sugarcane plantation in Nigeria are offered …

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Women's empowerment in action: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa

Bandiera, Oriana; Buehren, Niklas; Burgess, Robin; … - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

Women in developing countries are disempowered relative to their contemporaries in developed countries. High youth unemployment and early marriage and childbearing interact to limit human capital investment and enforce dependence on men. In this paper we evaluate an attempt to jump-start...

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Falling Off the Map: The Impact of Formalizing (Some) Informal Settlements in Tanzania

Collin, Matthew; Sandefur, Justin; Zeitlin, Andrew - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2015

When the Tanzanian government formalized over 200,000 informal land claims by granting leasehold titles to residents of unplanned settlements in Dar es Salaam in 2004, a few neighborhoods in the initial plan were excluded due to missing satellite photos. We examine the impact of this low-cost,...

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Entrepreneurial Saving Practices and Reinvestment: Theory and Evidence from Tanzanian MSEs

Beck, Thorsten; Pamuk, Haki; Uras, Burak R. - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014

What is the relationship between entrepreneurial saving practices and reinvestment? We develop a model of entrepreneurial finance and show that entrepreneurial reinvestment decisions depend on the efficiency of saving practices. Utilizing a novel micro & small enterprise survey from Tanzania we...

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Riding the Wave: Monetary Responses to Aid Surges in Low-Income Countries

Buffie, Edward; Adam, Christopher; O'Connell, Stephen; … - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2006

We focus on the management of highly persistent shocks to aid flows, including HIPC or MDG-related increases in net flows, in the presence of currency substitution by the domestic private sector. Such shocks have beneficent long-run effects, but when currency substitution is high they can...

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