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Colonisation, School and Development in Africa. An empirical analysis

Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003

cant differences in the levels of education attained under the different colonial powers in Africa during the colonial … control of some pre-colonial factors and have persisted over time until 1990. However, the education differential did not give … French colonies. Microeconomic data for the case-study countries show indeed that private returns to education tend to be …

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Who deserves aid? Equality of opportunity, international aid and poverty reduction

Naudet, Jean-David; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

We build and implement a normative procedure to allocate international aid based on equality of opportunity concerning the risk of poverty. This is an alternative to Collier and Dollar’s proposal (2001) which stresses the impact of aid on worldwide poverty reduction. The big problem with their...

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Colonization, Institutions and Inequality. A Note on Some Suggestive Evidence

Cogneau, Denis; Guénard, Charlotte - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003

What is the kind of institutions that affect economic inequalities? Using a database on national income inequality for 73 non-European countries, we show that 'good governance' not only contributes to the level of income but also to a more equal distribution by increasing the income share of the...

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Social Mobility and Colonial Legacy in Five African Countries

Bossuroy, Thomas; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

-agricultural jobs. In the former British colonies, the links between origin, migration, education and occupational achievement appear …

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Commodity Price Shocks and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Crisis in Côte d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

We look at the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Côte d'Ivoire and study to which extent cocoa producers' children su®ered from this severe aggregate shock in terms of school enrollment, labor, height stature and morbidity. Using pre-crisis (1985-88) and post- crisis...

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Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times

Moradi, Alexander; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

When European powers partitioned Africa, individuals of otherwise homogeneous communities were divided and found themselves randomly assigned to one coloniser. This provides for a natural experiment: applying a border discontinuity analysis to Ghana and Togo, we test what impact coloniser’s...

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Family Income and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Price Shock in Cote d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

We study the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Cote d’Ivoire and investigate the extent to which cocoa producers’ children suﬀered from this severe income shock in terms of school enrollment, increased labor, height stature and sickness. Comparing pre-crisis...

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Simulating Targeted Policies with Macro Impacts: Poverty Alleviation Policies in Madagascar

Cogneau, Denis; Robilliard, Anne-Sophie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

We present the framework of a macro-micro simulation model for the study of the impact of economic policies on income distribution and monetary poverty in Madagascar. Modelling options and choices are discussed for the micro-economic module and for the macro-micro linkages. Econometric...

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