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Reformulating Index Insurance to Protect Women's Assets and Well-being : Evidence from Pastoralist Communities in Kenya

Arteaga, Julián; Carter, Michael R.; Hobbs, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The novel insurance contracts for crop losses and livestock mortality that have been developed in low income countries typically protect against shocks in the male sphere of economic activity. Often overlooked are women, the particularities of their indirect exposure to this risk, and their...

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Nomadic Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

McGuirk, Eoin F. - 2020

Arid regions of Africa are expanding by thousands of square kilometers a year, potentially disturbing pastoral routes that have been forged over a long period of time. This disturbance is often said to explain why "herder-farmer" conflicts have erupted in recent years, as pastoralists and...

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Cooperation in the Commons : Community-based Rangeland Management in Namibia

Coppock, D. Layne; Crowley, Lucas; Durham, Susan L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Classic theories suggest that common pool resources are subject to overexploitation. Community-based resource management approaches may ameliorate "tragedy of the commons" effects. Using a randomized evaluation in Namibia's communal rangelands, we find that a comprehensive four-year program to...

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Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics : On the Roles of Risk and Ability

Santos, Paulo - 2016

This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely in adverse states of nature. In favorable states, expected herd grow is quasi-linear and...

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The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2016

Does a person's historical lineage influence his or her current economic status? Motivated by a large literature in social sciences stressing the effect of an early transition to agriculture on current economic performance at the level of countries, we examine the relative contemporary status of...

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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana

McMillan, Margaret S. - 2019

We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …

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When Knowledge is not Enough : HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana

Levinsohn, James A. - 2006

increase vulnerability to infection? We use data from two recent household surveys in Botswana to address this question. We …

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Stuck in the Middle? Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Botswana

McCaig, Brian - 2015

This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by … that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …

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The Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy

Hayashi, Fumio - 2006

The question we address in this paper is why the Japanese miracle didn't take place until after World War II. For much of the pre-WWII period, Japan's real GNP per worker was not much more than a third of that of the U.S., with falling capital intensity. We argue that its major cause is a...

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