This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement …

behavior. This treatment is interacted with the option of opening a savings account at the screening of the movie. At the exit … of the screening, individuals in the financial education movie treatment are more likely to open a savings account than … individuals in the placebo movie treatment. However, the effects dissipate quickly. When savings and borrowing behavior is …

drought shocks. It analyzes mechanisms through which cash transfers contribute to resilience, such as savings facilitation … increase savings. They also help households protect earnings in agriculture and off-farm businesses when shocks occur. Few … poor households can foster resilience by facilitating savings and income smoothing …

lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

This paper examines the growth-inflation nexus in Franc zone currency unions. It aims at estimating the inflation …

This paper documents that structural change positively contributed to labor productivity growth in Guinea during 2006 …-15. However, the contribution of structural change to productivity growth was modest (about one percentage point per year on … of structural change to productivity growth has declined over time, mainly due to the increased labor market rigidity …

This paper examines the growth effects of different dimensions of international trade integration-notably, volume … trade dimensions for the region and the traditional sources of growth. Second, it empirically estimates the impact of trade … integration on growth per worker and the sources of growth; that is, growth of capital per worker and total factor productivity …

Ethiopia has achieved sustained high growth for more than a decade. At the same time, the country has been facing … economic growth. Currency undervaluation is a second-best policy intervention that can help offset some of the key constraints … to manufacturing growth prevalent in low-income countries and speed up structural transformation. However, exchange rate …