women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing …

This paper presents new evidence on the power sharing layout of national political elites in a panel of African … monolithically controlling power, we show that African ruling coalitions are large and that political power is allocated …

. Succinctly, countries receive a commercial return on their soft power …

political power decides the allocation of resources. We show that Pareto efficient allocations take a quasi-Markovian structure … and can be represented recursively as a function of the identity of the group in power and updated Pareto weights. For … disappear and labor supply and consumption levels fluctuate over time. The labor supply of groups that are not in power are …