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Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa?
(2016-06)
We provide micro-level evidence on an important channel through which mineral resources may adversely affect development in the long-run: lower educational attainment. Combining Afrobarometer survey data with geocoded data ...
East African Community: Pre-conditions for an Effective Monetary Union
(2011-12)
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda signed the Treaty for the establishment of the East African Community (EAC) in 1999, which entered into force in July 2000. In 2007 it was signed by Burundi and Rwanda. According to the Treaty, ...
The Gender Gap in African Political Participation: Individual and contextual determinants
(2012-03)
The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors underlying the gender gap in African electoral and inter-electoral political participation. Drawing on new data covering over 27,000 respondents from 246 regions in 20 emerging ...
Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-06)
Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in African ...
Income Generation in the African and Coloured Population: Three essays on the origins of household incomes in South Africa
(2005)
The dissertation comprises three empirical analyses focusing on the origins of South African households’ income sources. The income sources are categorized to reflect the households’ varying extent of economic core sector ...
Essays on Development: Household Income, Education, and Female Political Participation and Representation
(2012-04-12)
The thesis consists of four self-contained papers.
Paper 1: The Push Towards UPE and the Determinants of the Demand for Education in Tanzania.
This paper uses household data to investigate the determinants of demand for ...
The rise of China: Competing or complementary to DAC aid flows in Africa?
(2016-09)
This study investigates if the relationship between bilateral DAC aid and Chinese aid allocation is better described as competing aid flows, or if Chinese aid has been mainly a
complement to DAC aid in Africa between the ...
Essays on Firm Turnover, Growth, and Investment Behavior in Ethiopian Manufacturing
(2006)
This thesis analyses the dynamics and investment behavior of Ethiopian manufacturing firms in post-reform period using establishment level industrial census panel data from 1996 to 2003. Three related topics such as firm ...
A Spatial Analysis of Foreign Aid and Civil Society
(2017-01)
We use a Spatial Durbin Model to examine the relationship between civil society aid projects and measures of civil society including membership and participation in community groups and satisfaction with democracy in Nigeria ...
The Poor and Their Neighbors: Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2013-09-24)
This thesis comprises of seven self-contained papers. While the papers are quite distinct
in the questions they address and each is based on its own dataset, there are
some relations between them either in the topic ...