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Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2003
Proponents of trade liberalization argue that it will force firms to produce closer to the production possibility frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level. However intuitive the argument, empirical evidence is...
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Keeping It in the Family : Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa
Moscona, Jacob - 2017
We present evidence that the traditional structure of society is an important determinant of the scope of trust today. Within Africa, individuals belonging to ethnic groups that organized society using segmentary lineages exhibit a more limited scope of trust, measured by the gap between trust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455485
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Empowering Women : The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception
Andalón, Mabel - 2014
Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … extends beyond improved labor market outcomes and includes greater autonomy over their fertility …
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Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children
Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic … theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both …, fertility, and child education in female birth cohorts surrounding the onset of the region's fertility transition. Fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388830
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Sex, Power, and Adolescence : Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors
Shah, Manisha; Seager, Jennifer; Montalvao, Joao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goal setting activity to improve their sexual and reproductive health outcomes and offers their...
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Family Planning, Now and Later : Infertility Fears and Contraceptive Take-Up
Bau, Natalie; Henning, David J.; Low, Corinne; Millett … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take …
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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access
Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...
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The Economic Tragedy of the XXth Century : Growth in Africa
Artadi, Elsa V. - 2003
The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of per capita GDP for the continent as a whole and for subset of countries south of the Sahara desert. We document the worsening of various income inequality indexes and we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468832
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Growth Economics and Reality
Brock, William A. - 2000
This paper questions current empirical practice in the study of growth. We argue that much of the modern empirical growth literature is based on assumptions concerning regressors, residuals, and parameters which are implausible both from the perspective of economic theory as well as from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470690
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Why Not Africa?
Freeman, Richard B. - 1999
Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments in education as a prerequisite for more rapid growth is misplaced; that greater openness is far from sufficient to insure economic progress; that income inequality and urban bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471865