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Historical Missionary Activity, Schooling, and the Reversal of Fortunes: Evidence from Nigeria
Okoye, Dozie; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
-level data with a newly constructed dataset on mission stations in Nigeria, we find that individuals whose ancestors were exposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112805
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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789919
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979
why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the problem of rural social structures recently. Up to now it was considered … and rural social spaces in Northern Nigeria. Applied to the results an empirical investigation of four Nupe villages in … Northern Nigeria in 1976, the proposed model reveals the early stages of a rural capitalist development, notably among rice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622095
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Why is the Workplace Racially Segregated by Occupation?
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260187
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Social diversification, injustices, and Pareto optimality with non-binary preferences
Berdellima, Arian; Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We prove the existence of a Pareto optimal state of a finite society that has socially differentiated persons, each with non-binary personal preferences that quasi-order a finite set of alternatives. Everybody engages in a volitional act of choice by maximization of non-binary preferences. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111129
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World on Fire? Democracy, Globalization and Ethnic Violence
Bezemer, Dirk J; Jong-A-Pin, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Recent studies suggest that democracy and globalization lead to ethnic hatred and violence in countries with a rich ethnic minority. We examine the thesis by Chua (2003) that democratization and globalization lead to ethnic violence in the presence of a market-dominant minority. We use different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617068
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The Gun-Slave Cycle in the 18th century British slave trade in Africa
Whatley, Warren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The trans-Atlantic slave trade is considered by many to have been a major shock to Africa, one that transformed African economies and contributed to long-term poverty. In this paper I combine data from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database and the Anglo-African Trade Statistics to document some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260695
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Towards Effective Emerging Infectious Diseases Surveillance: Evidence from Kenya, Peru, Thailand, and the U.S.­‐Mexico Border
Ear, Sophal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the political economy of emerging infectious disease (EID) surveillance programs. It provides lessons learned for U.S. military medical research laboratories collaborating with developing countries and is comprised of four case studies: Kenya (U.S. Army Medical Research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261057
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The African Slave Trade and the Curious Case of General Polygyny
Edlund, Lena; Ku, Hyejin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
General polygyny -- near universal marriage and polygyny -- is common in Africa. But why would men marry n wives for 1/n:th of the time instead of monogamously? Downsides include prolonged bachelorhood and a high degree of step-parenting. We point to the African slave trade which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107748
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Communitarianism, Oppositional Cultures, and Human Capital Contagion: Theory and Evidence from Formal versus Koranic Education
Dev, Pritha; Mberu, Blessing; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We analyze the implications of communitarianism-the tendency of people to organize into separate culturally homogeneous groups-for individual and group inequality in human capital accumulation. We propose a non-cooperative social interactions model where each individual decides how much time to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108835