Despite the increasing attention on energy poverty due to its health implications, the South African story is yet to be told, while pathways of influence have received little empirical investigation in the extant literature. This study examines how energy poverty affects mental distress in...

This study examines the impact of financial literacy training on financial inclusion and its intensity using data collected from a randomised control trial. An additive index of financial inclusion is generated from four financial inclusion indicators. After testing for baseline balance and...

This paper investigates the effect of household remittance inflows on child education in Ghana using data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey Six (GLSS 6). Employing an instrumental variable approach and including children at the nursery and kindergarten levels in our study, the following...

Many households in developing countries seek to address poor learning outcomes by investing in private supplementary tutoring (PST). We examined the effects of PST expenditures on learning outcomes and possible heterogeneous effects related to the child’s gender and locality. We use...