eleven Sub-Saharan African countries. The focus of the paper is on identifying those entrepreneurs' attributes and firm … ; Africa …

renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognized, much less is known about progress in living conditions. This book … from a pan-African perspective, key economies-particularly Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa-are not among the better …

We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from … large degree of spatial variation in both attitudes and actions of violence against women. Using rich individual survey and … high-resolution georeferenced data, we find systematically less violence against women in traditionally sea-fishing areas …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … estimates based on a longitudinal survey of over 27000 women conducted in 2005 and 2012, and using the conditional logistic … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by …