The study uses a sample of 3,876 youths to estimate the impact of Ghana's Labour Intensive Public Works (LIPW) program on youth employment and seasonal migration using the ‘doubly-robust' estimator that models both the treatment assignment and the outcome variable within the same framework....

Although barriers to international trade were removed during the 1990s, log prices remain inefficiently low in Ecuador. Oligopsonistic conditions, which prevailed in the forestry sector under protectionism, have not been relieved by increased competition. The problem is that new investment is...