Foreign companies, including transnational corporations (TNCs), have shown disloyalty toward their hosts in sub-Saharan Africa by, among other things, scaling back strategic expansion plans, closing operations, and shifting income-generating activities to different countries. Therefore, the...

We quantify the relationship between Tanzanian and external maize markets while also accounting for domestic influences. We conclude that external influences on domestic prices originate from regional, rather than global, markets. We also show that, compared to external factors, domestic factors...

This paper estimates the short, medium and long term effects on health and the subsequent intergenerational transmission of exposure in childhood to the Tanzania Flood of 1993. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the disaster's geographic extent and timing, and the...

In developing countries, mobile telecom networks have emerged as major providers of financial services, bypassing the sparse retail networks of traditional banks. We analyze a large individual-level data set of mobile money transactions in Tanzania. Transactions can be classified as (i) money...

To have a freedom is a desire of every living organisms particularly on freedom of expression. This is undebatable because it is from such freedom people get to explain and know the concerns of others, so that they can be able to provide or be given an assistance when available and when required...

This PhD thesis contains three self-contained chapters, focusing on the long-term out- come of different childhood experiences. As children are vulnerable to early life experi- ences, whether they have a good or bad start has long-term implications on their life. For that reason, understanding...

Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania, given its unique natural assets, is an ideal candidate. However, despite being so richly endowed in touristic resources, Tanzania receives very few tourists and revenues from...

HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper examines novel intervention strategies that use incentives to discourage risky sexual behaviors. Widely-adopted conditional cash transfer programs that offer payments conditioning on...

We use a field experiment in Tanzania to compare the effectiveness on learning of two teacher performance pay systems. The first is a Pay for Percentile system (a rank-order tournament). The second rewards teachers based on multiple proficiency thresholds. Pay for Percentile can (under certain...