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Productive benefits of health : evidence from low-income countries

Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2005

components of health are equal. Evidence from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Brazil suggest that the health human capital effect on …

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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011-2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296187

Intrahousehold distribution and child poverty : theory and evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2011

Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and children's shares together with economies of scale,...

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Engel curves, spatial variation in prices and demand for commodities in Côte d'Ivoire

Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011

This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d'Ivoire. Using data from the 2002 Cote d'Ivoire Living Standard Survey and a theoretical framework developed by Crawford et al. (2003), we analyse price effects on the demand for groups...

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Regionalism in West Africa: do polar countries reap the benefits? : A role for migration

Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2005

In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...

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Parental risk preferences, maternal bargaining power, and the educational progressions of children : lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Côte D'Ivoire

Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gbakou, Monnet; … - 2022

We analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational expenses - elicited via lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Côte d'Ivoire - on the educational progression of boys and girls. Data from 135 couples and their children show that...

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Intra-household bargaining in Ivory Coast : experimental evidence from rural areas

Dimova, Ralitza; Abou, Edouard Pokou; Basu, Arnab K.; … - 2022

This paper proposes a novel experimental measure of women's relative bargaining power, relates this measure to expenditures on various household public goods, and studies its determinants. A key question we address in the process is whether higher bargaining power for women translates into...

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Assessing dishonesty in cocoa value chains : lab-in-the-field evidence from middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire

Boutin, Delphine; Jouvin, Marine; Olié, Louis - 2024

This study investigates dishonest behavior among cocoa middlemen in Côte d'Ivoire, focusing on the role of observability and financial penalties in deterring such behavior. Using on a modified version of the "die-under-cup task", we examine the cheating behaviors of 151 cocoa middlemen over...

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Multidimensional human capital, wages and endogenous employment status in Ghana

Blunch, Niels-Hugo (contributor) - 2008

skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by … ; cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; formal education ; adult literacy programs ; Ghana …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793530

Capital-skill complementarity : evidence from manufacturing industries in Ghana

Akay, Gokhan H.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009

purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants … in industry and aggregate level. We use an unbalanced panel of plant-level data for manufacturing firms in Ghana during … suggest that capital-skill complementarity holds in aggregate level and wood-furniture sector in Ghana. However, we reject the …

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