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Left Behind : Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2010
shock to both household and community environment. We utilize the recent rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138271
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The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction : Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
Shiferaw, Admasu - 2009
This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153176
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Malaria : Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences
Gollin, Douglas - 2007
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes, causes over 300 million episodes of quot;acute illnessquot; and more than one million deaths annually. Most of the deaths occur in poor countries of the tropics, and especially sub-Saharan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776076
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The Impact of Hiv/Aids on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa : New Evidence
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic. We combine Demographic Health Survey data from 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825005
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Remittances and the Brain Drain : Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Bredtmann, Julia - 2016
microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys from five Sub-Saharan African countries that … ends of the migrant-origin household relationship and employing household fixed effects specifications that only use within-household … vanishes for migrants in OECD destination countries once characteristics of the origin household are controlled for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978947
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Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa : New Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2015
This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland confirmed the importance of start-up capital for sales. Women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016220
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Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Primer
Bhorat, H. - 2015
Although the sectors and fraction of workers covered are small given the low rates of formality and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as the number of covered workers grows wage regulation will become increasingly significant. We find that higher minimum wage values are associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016289
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Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Ouyang, Yusi - 2018
The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits cross-country poverty convergence using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923239
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Prenatal Exposure to Heat Waves and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bratti, Massimiliano; Frimpong, Prince Boakye; Russo, Simone - 2021
This paper investigates the consequences of prenatal exposure to hot temperatures on child health in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using a novel indicator of heat waves (the Heat Wave Magnitude Index daily). Leveraging several geo-referenced waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys merged with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223787
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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2010
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and institutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146481