assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …

OLS and a geographic regression discontinuity design along the matrilineal belt in Africa. Using over 50 DHS survey …

explaining patterns of political centralization in Africa …

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 …

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 …

six months, generating an expected net present value (NPV) of over $400 billion. A proportionate advance-investment …