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Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub–Saharan Africa
Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015
One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308525
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Adverse selection in the marriage market: HIV testing and marriage in rural Malawi
Angelucci, Manuela; Bennett, Daniel - 2020
Asymmetric information in the marriage market may cause adverse selection and delay marriage if partner quality is revealed over time. Sexual safety is an important but hidden partner attribute, especially in areas where HIV is endemic. A model of positive assortative matching with both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271316
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Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub Saharan Africa
Sievert, Maximiliane - 2024
Electrification is frequently said to foster women's development and contribute to a modernization of gender roles. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from rural areas in 22 Sub-Saharan countries collected between 1999 and 2014, this paper examines the role of electricity access in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528272
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Child ability and household human capital investment decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard; Bagby, Emilie; de Walque, Damien; … - 2010
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278808
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Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard; Bagby, Emilie; de Walque, Damien; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727775
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924315
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925496
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Comment les femmes concilient-elles mariage et travail à Dakar et à Lomé ?
Adjamagbo, Agnès; Antoine, Philippe; Beguy, Donatien; … - DIAL - 2006
(english) Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women’s role in household survival...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767569
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Comment les femmes concilient-elles mariage et travail à Dakar et à Lomé ?
Adjamagbo, Agnès; Antoine, Philippe; Béguy, Donatien; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women’s role in household survival strategies, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074508
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Immigration and Employment : Substitute Versus Complementary Labor in Selected African Countries
viseth, Arina - 2021
the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-SaharanAfrica. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa toexamine immigration's impact in …) employment allocation betweeninformal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The directionof …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315124