We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and...

In this paper, we study the effect of household shocks on the incidence of domestic violence using household survey microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households. We find that droughts lead to a considerable...

This paper investigates the impact of historical crude oil-price fluctuation on diverse economies. It employs the use of structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) and panel VAR methodologies as innovative paths of investigating oil-shock association. While evidence of linear and non-linear shock...

Using Australian general practitioners (GPs) as a case study, this paper examines the impact of a public subsidy withdrawal on provider behaviour. The removal of the joint injection item from public insurance provides an opportunity to examine behavioural changes in the context of the removal of...