Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …

inflation expectations among 145 tenured economics professors in Germany and exploit the 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine as a … natural experiment to identify the effect of a global political shock on expectations about national inflation rates. We find …

How costly are droughts to individuals’ nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite …

migration intentions in Senegal, Niger and Ivory Coast. The effect on international migration intentions are only significant in …

The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic …

analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright …

analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the World Bank and China does not increase …

networks. In this paper we incorporate production barriers induced by COVID-19 shock into a Ricardian model with sectoral … shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined …. Moreover, we show that global production linkages have a clear role in magnifying the effect of the production shock. Finally …