70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain without latrines analyzing a representative sample of 2000...

This study examines why cash grants fail to increase parental investment in child education, and what can be done to increase their effectiveness. The findings assert that designing interventions as cost-sharing schemes instead of a lumpsum grant scheme significantly increases the willingness of...

This study investigates whether disaster experience and vulnerability affect individual risk-taking and time-discounting behaviour using field experiments from Ethiopia. The study finds that experiencing drought raises risk aversion and motive for precautionary saving among vulnerable...

This paper investigates the preference of parents for inter-child allocation of education investment in Ethiopia. It mainly focuses on the roles played by non-price factors of investment in child education. The study uses unique survey and experimental dataset disaggregated by individual...

Reliable and comprehensive nationwide household-level consumption and expenditure data is crucial for tracking poverty, hunger, nutrition, and health/well-being outcomes. Such data can also provide an evidence-based road map on how these issues can be addressed from a policy standpoint. Data...

Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT...

Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each year. Using recent data only about bribe payers' actual experiences in paying bribes, we show that trade facilitation would only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency -...

One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...

Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of democracy in this region. This paper addresses the...

In this paper, we aim to analyse the learning by exporting hypothesis in the Mozambican context. Due to the presence of the born-global phenomenon among exporters, we address the endogeneity introduced by self-selection by combining a generalized BO approach with results from traditional...