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Understanding Pareto Inefficient Intrahousehold Allocations

Akresh, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources within households is Pareto inefficient, contradicting the main assumption of most collective models of intrahousehold bargaining. He finds that among plots planted with the same crop in the same year, within a...

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Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa

Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...

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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …

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Braving the Waves: The Role of Time and Risk Preferences in Illegal Migration from Senegal

Arcand, Jean-Louis; Mbaye, Linguère Mously - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time and risk preferences and illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time...

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Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030

Ncube, Mthuli; Brixiova, Zuzana; Bicaba, Zorobabel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world … rate, especially if in part achieved by lowering inequality, the Africa region would meaningfully contribute to the global …

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African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Leaders are critical to a country’s success. They can influence domestic policy via specific measures that they enforce, and they can also influence international public opinion towards their country. Foreign Direct Investments are also essential for a country’s economic growth. Our...

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Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict

Akresh, Richard; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Thirumurthy, Harsha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's...

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A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa

Andalón, Mabel; Fields, Gary - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a …

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Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business environment. Moreover, the low-productive firms in the...

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Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the various labor market disadvantages faced by the Swazi youth, such as …

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