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assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …
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This paper presents new evidence on the power sharing layout of national political elites in a panel of African countries, most of them autocracies. We present a model of coalition formation across ethnic groups and structurally estimate it employing data on the ethnicity of cabinet ministers...
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OLS and a geographic regression discontinuity design along the matrilineal belt in Africa. Using over 50 DHS survey …
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explaining patterns of political centralization in Africa …
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In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context … negative effect on development in Africa. To develop this claim we distinguish between three sorts of colonies: (1) those which …
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This paper estimates a dynamic structural model of discrete R&D investment and quantifies its cost and long-run benefit … expected firm value generated by the R&D investment. It increases firm value by 6.7 percent for the median firm in high … innovation significantly raise investment rates and productivity while reductions in startup costs have little effect …
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six months, generating an expected net present value (NPV) of over $400 billion. A proportionate advance-investment …
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