This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …

Ghana, using evidence from four focus group discussions. It analyzes how the focus group participants think about various …

larger than a simple OLS regression would suggest. Hence, policies to expand education in Sub-Saharan Africa, should not …

portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data …

by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …

particularly useful and continue to actually construct such a measure for all countries in Africa. Finally, using this measure of … Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …

This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …