This paper aims to assess the impact on the budget of the main cereal crops in Romania, following the disruptions in the fertilizer market that led to accelerated price increases for this category of inputs. The income and expenditure budgets will be studied, both for the technological framework...

This article investigates women's returns to schooling by exploiting Burundi's free primary education policy (FPE) of 2005 as a natural experiment. Credibly exogenous variation in education is identified through a fuzzy regression discontinuity design (RDD). Our results show that while...

Is ethnic inequality associated with aversion to authoritarian regimes and increase support for democracy as a means of influencing redistribution? Using four rounds of Afrobarometer panel data, covering 29 African countries and 353 distinct ethnic groups, and an ordered logistic model, we show...