This article aims to test whether existing theories of what factors underlie the gender gap in political participation apply in an African context. Empirical estimations drawing on recent data covering over 27,000 respondents across 20 African emerging democracies suggest that whereas several of...

Chinese firms operating in Africa are often accused of violating international labour standards and not adhering with national labour laws. Considering China's tendency to maintain control over development projects throughout the entire implementation phase, using Chinese contractors for work...

Considering the mounting criticisms concerning Chinese aid practices, the present paper investigates whether Chinese aid projects fuel local-level corruption in Africa. To this end, we geographically match a new geo-referenced dataset on the subnational allocation of Chinese development finance...

We consider long-term impacts of establishing school psychology offices in Norway, which introduced 'maturity testing' to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the normative age cut-off who reached school-starting age after...

Does wealth make people more generous? While this question has been at the center stage of the research on charitable giving, causal evidence is lacking. We offer winners and losers of a large Ethiopian housing lottery the opportunity to give to charities. Winners experience a very large...

We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using a regression discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the...