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Malaria risk and civil violence
Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2017
Using high-resolution data from Africa over the period 1998-2012, this paper investigates the hypothesis that a higher exposure to malaria increases the incidence of civil violence. The analysis uses panel data at the 1ê grid cell level at monthly frequency. The econometric identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662694
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Malaria Control and Infant Mortality in Africa
Cogneau, Denis; Rossi, Pauline - 2019
Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 15 years? Using large household surveys collected in 16 countries and exploiting the spatial correlation in distribution campaigns, we estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114821
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The African tragedy: the effect of democracy on economic growth
Khodaverdian, Saeed - In: Empirical Economics 62 (2021) 3, pp. 1147-1175
We estimate the effect of democracy on economic growth for the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in comparison with other … countries. We find that in contrast to other countries, democracy in Africa benefits neither GDP per capita nor total GDP. We …. Both demographic changes relate to the finding that unlike in other countries, democracy does not reduce child mortality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014497589
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Weather Shocks, Age of Marriage and the Direction of Marriage Payments
Corno, Lucia; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Voena, Alessandra - 2016
In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i.e. prior to age 18) among young women in Africa and India. We show that rainfall shocks, a major source of income variation in these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739614
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The Myth of 'African Growth Tragedy' : Past, Present and Future
Zhang, Tianze - 2018
In the late 1990s, as economists looked back the development period in Africa since 1970s, they put forward the notion “African growth tragedy” , meaning that Africa's poor growth and resulting low income is associated with low schooling, political instability, underdeveloped financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910710
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Continental Free Trade Area of Africa : Challenges and Prospects
Disassa, Desalegn Deresso - 2019
The Africa countries signed Abuja treaty, which entered into force in 1994, with the aim establish an African Economic Community composed of all African states using preexisting Regional Economic Communities as a building block over a period of 34 years and using six stages of integration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895388
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A Demographic Study of African Attitudes on Bribery
Hernandez, Teresa - 2014
This paper examines ethical opinion on bribe taking in four African countries – South Africa, Ghana, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Nineteen demographic variables (gender, age, marital status, etc.) are also examined. Although all countries expressed a strong opposition to bribe taking, opposition was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055207
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Malaria risk and civil violence
Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2017
Using high-resolution data from Africa over the period 1998-2012, this paper investigates the hypothesis that a higher exposure to malaria increases the incidence of civil violence. The analysis uses panel data at the 1° grid cell level at monthly frequency. The econometric identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630952
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Malaria control and infant mortality in Africa
Cogneau, Denis; Rossi, Pauline - 2019
Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in in- fant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 15 years? Using large household surveys collected in 16 countries and exploiting the spatial correlation in distribution campaigns, we estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102425
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Marriage markets and single motherhood in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble Y. - 2006
This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is motivated by the low proportion of married among African mothers since 48% are never married. This means that the children of all these never married mothers have no access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350383