Search
Now showing items 1-8 of 8
Essays on Economic Behaviour: HIV/AIDS, Schooling, and Inequality
(2011-04-14)
Paper 1: Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We ...
Essays on institutions and economic outcomes
(2010-01-22)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Essays on Shocks, Welfare, and Poverty Dynamics: Microeconometric Evidence from Ethiopia
(2011-04-20)
Five self-contained papers constitute this thesis.
Paper 1: Does fertilizer use respond to rainfall variability? Panel data evidence from urban Ethiopia
In this article, we use farmers’ actual experiences with changes ...
Mining Booms in Africa and Local Welfare Effects: Labor Markets, Women’s Empowerment and Criminality
(2015-05-08)
The role that extractive industries can play in processes of economic development is
frequently described as, at best non-existent, or at worst, persistently negative. Extractive
industries, while focusing on unearthing ...