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Are Natural Disasters Good for Economic Growth?
(2013-02)
Natural disasters plague the populations of many countries, and the international commu-
nity often seeks to alleviate the human suffering by means of humanitarian aid. Do natural disasters also have negative effects on ...
The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
(2013-02)
Previous studies on improved cookstove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to adoption over time. We use ...
Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi
(2013-08)
The impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has received attention recently,
since changes in population structure can impact on future economic development. We
analyze the effect of AIDS on actual and ...
Relative Standing and Life-Satisfaction: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter?
(2013-12)
Unlike most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries, we use a fixed effects regression on three rounds of rich panel data to investigate the impact of relative standing on life satisfaction of respondents ...
Corruption along ethnic lines: A study of individual corruption experiences in 17 African countries
(2013-08)
While a growing literature relates macro variation in corruption to ethnic divisions, existing studies have paid little attention to the possible existence of systematic micro variation in corruption along ethnic lines. ...
Austerity Measures and Infant Health. Lessons from an Unexpected Wage Cut Policy
(2013-10)
We investigate the effects on health at birth of a shock generated by a major (25%) and unexpected wage cut austerity measure that affected all public sector employees in Romania in 2010. Our findings suggest an overall ...
Do Safety Nets Promote Technology Adoption? Panel data evidence from rural Ethiopia
(2013-02)
We use panel data from rural Ethiopia to investigate if participation in a safety net program enhances fertilizer adoption. Using a difference-in-difference estimator and inverse propensity score weighting we find that ...
Optimal Expectations and the Welfare Cost of Climate Variability
(2013-12)
Uncertainty about the future is an important determinant of well-being, especially in developing countries where financial markets and other market failures result in ineffective insurance mechanisms. However, separating ...
Poverty Persistence and Intra-Household Heterogeneity in Occupations: Evidence from Urban Ehtiopia
(2013-12)
Previous studies of poverty in developing countries have to a great extent focused on the characteristics of the household head and used these as proxies for the underlying ability of the household to generate income. This ...
Tangible Temptation in the Social Dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control
(2013-05)
The social dilemma may contain, within the individual, a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public ...