The over-60 population in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades, tripling between 2020 … support older populations. Further, little research in economics has specifically examined aging in Sub-Saharan Africa, though … the design of health care systems, pensions, and other public support programs to prepare for an aging Africa …

Does combating corruption reduce clientelism? We examine the impact of a prominent anti-corruption program on …

. In a large electorate, the numerical advantage of the majority becomes irrelevant: democracy is undone by the market …

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and …. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral traditions across the world, we find that ethnic groups further away from East Africa …, phenotypic, and phonemic traits along the Out of Africa migration routes, setting conditions for the emergence and proliferation …

"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that … often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be … uncorrelated with ex-post firm-level responses, further evidence that deals rather than rules prevail in Africa. Strikingly, the …

Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that … often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be … uncorrelated with ex-post firm-level responses, further evidence that deals rather than rules prevail in Africa. Strikingly, the …