The growth literature has had problems explaining the "sub-Saharan African growth dummy" in cross-country regressions. Instead of taking the usual approach of focusing on long-run growth and assuming that sub-Saharan countries have homogenous parameters in growth regressions, we concentrate our...

Focuses on the inter-relationship between women's labour force participation and the sexual division of labour on the one hand and demographic behavior, especially fertility, on the other in the context of West Africa. Examines linkages between women's roles using data from biographies of women...