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Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities
Glennerster, Rachel - 2010
Scholars have pointed to ethnic and other social divisions as a leading cause of economic underdevelopment, due in part to their adverse effects on public good provision and collective action. We investigate this issue in post-war Sierra Leone, one of the world's poorest countries. To address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462461
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Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race, and political ideology. We measure cultural distance between two groups as the ability to infer an individual's group based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452950
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Collective Pegging to a Single Currency : The West African Monetary Union
de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 1985
The paper presents a model of a monetary union designed to illuminate monetary and exchange rate policy in the West African Monetary Union (UMOA). Emphasis is placed on the interaction of the members of UMOA with each other, through the common central bank, and on their interaction with France...
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Dust and Death : Evidence from the West African Harmattan
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Using two decades of data from twelve low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating behaviors. Despite these efforts, surviving children still...
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Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers
Gilbert, Christopher L. - 2003
Liberalization of tropical agricultural markets has brought globalization, in the sense that all producers now face world rather than domestic prices. Producer prices have tended to rise as a share of fob prices as intermediation costs and tax has declined. However, in conjunction with inelastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469030
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Reinventing the Wheel : The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa
Chaves, Isaías N. - 2013
One of the great puzzles of Sub-Saharan African economic history is that wheeled transportation was barely used prior to the colonial period. Instead, head porterage was the main method of transportation. The consensus among historians is that this was a rational adaption to the underlying...
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The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa : Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes)
Boone, Peter - 2013
We conducted a survey covering 20% of villages with 200-1000 population in rural Guinea-Bissau. We interviewed household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of...
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Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors : Evidence from Colonial West Africa
Dupas, Pascaline; Falezan, Camille; Mabeu, Marie Christelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial … villages were more exposed to forced labor historically, there is more temporary male migration to Côte d'Ivoire up to today …-skill circular migration for adult men reduced the reliance on subsistence farming and the accompanying need for child labor. We can …
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Racial Concordance and the Quality of Medical Care : Evidence from the Military
Frakes, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
One explanation for insufficient use of primary care in the U.S. is a lack of trust between patients and providers - particularly along racial lines. We assess the role of racial concordance between patients and medical providers in driving use of preventive care and the implications for patient...
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The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on the Take-up of Disability Benefits by Race and Ethnicity
Staiger, Becky; Helfer, Madeline S.; Van Parys, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Public disability programs provide financial support to 12 million working-age individuals per year, though not all eligible individuals take up these programs. Mixed evidence exists regarding the impact of Medicaid eligibility expansion on program take-up, and even less is known about the...
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