study the effects of uncertainty in future income stream on household schooling decisions. The intuition is that households that face a more volatile income stream have more incentives to build up a buffer stock to insure against unforeseen adverse shocks, and non-enrollment can be part of such...

This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...