Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 125
Cover Image
Gender, Ethnicity and Cumulative Disadvantage in Education : Evidence from Latin American and African Censuses
Taş, Emcet O. - 2017
This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973644
Cover Image
The Ethnicity Distraction? Political Credibility and Partisan Preferences in Africa
Keefer, Philip - 2017
Much of the research on ethnicity, development and conflict implicitly assumes that ethnic groups act collectively in pursuit of their interests. Collective political action is typically facilitated by political parties able to make credible commitments to pursue group interests. Other work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976635
Cover Image
"They are Not Like Us" : Understanding Social Exclusion
Lakhani, Sadaf - 2017
Negative attitudes toward groups in society are widespread and underpin systematic processes of social exclusion that marginalize people and deny them opportunities and dignity. This paper looks at the processes underlying social exclusion. It uses data covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973484
Cover Image
Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ( "pre-confirmatory bias" ) and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976669
Cover Image
Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? : Evidence from Nigeria
Okunogbe, Oyebola Motunrayo - 2018
service, the largest program of its kind in Africa. Comparing participants who served in a state where they are the ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909741
Cover Image
Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from Odesk and India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
This paper examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. The data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts. Despite oDesk minimizing many of the frictions that diaspora connections have traditionally overcome, diaspora...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974489
Cover Image
Diaspora Effects in International Migration : Key Questions and Methodological Issues
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2017
This paper reviews the existing literature on the impact of migrants networks on the patterns of international migration. It covers the theoretical channels at stake in the global effect of the networks. It identifies the key issues, namely the impact on size, selection and concentration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975906
Cover Image
The Welfare Effects of Slum Improvement Programs : The Case of Mumbai
Takeuchi, Akie - 2016
The authors compare the welfare effects of in situ slum upgrading programs with programs that provide slum dwellers with better housing in a new location. Evaluating the welfare effects of slum upgrading and resettlement programs requires estimating models of residential location choice, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748095
Cover Image
The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … socioeconomic development in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963654
Cover Image
The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964338