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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa

Brown, Caitlin S. - 2017

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

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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics

Chen, Xi - 2010

One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...

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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance : Evidence from Mexico

Kumler, Todd - 2013

A growing body of research suggests that difficulties in collecting taxes are an important constraint on economic performance in developing countries. Evidence from rich countries points to third- party reporting -- in particular, employer reports of employees' wages -- as a potential remedy. To...

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Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa

Heldring, Leander - 2012

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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How Is Power Shared In Africa?

Francois, Patrick - 2012

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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Kinship Structure and the Family : Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt

Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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

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Special Exchange Rates for Capital Account Transactions

Dornbusch, Rudiger - 1985

The exchange rate consistent with high employment and a balanced current account are rarely the same as the rates consistent with asset market equilibrium at interest rates policy makers wish to prevail. Whenever rates are freely determined the assets markets prevail and the results may be hard...

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Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in Growth-Oriented Adjustment Programs

Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 1987

The search for "growth-oriented adjustment programs" reflects a widespread malaise concerning IMF stabilization programs in countries suffering from external debt crises. A new orthodoxy is emerging from this search, which links recovery in the debtor countries to a shift to "outward-oriented"...

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Intergenerational Persistence in Child Mortality

Lu, Frances R.; Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the intergenerational persistence of inequality by estimating grandmother-mother associations in the loss of a child, using pooled data from 119 Demographic and Health Surveys in 44 developing countries. Compared with compatriots of the same age, women with at least one sibling who died...

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Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments

Corno, Lucia - 2017

particularly child marriage, in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India, where substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with … marriage: bride price across Sub-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in … two regions: in Sub-Saharan Africa, they increase the annual hazard into child marriage by 3%, while in India droughts …

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