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Food access and subjective welfare in a developing countryUnderstanding the relationship between food access and welfare is critical in the design of social welfare policies, but the literature on this relationship is scarce. Employing the framework by Van Praag (1968) to a household survey data on Ghana...
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Identity Documents, Welfare Enhancement, and Group Empowerment in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Book Chapter
Marital trajectories and women's wellbeing in SenegalPart of Book Towards Gender Equity in Development
Working Paper
Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global SouthThis paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological...
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Marital trajectories and women’s wellbeing in SenegalDivorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous marital trajectories affect women’s wellbeing. Women’s marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with measures of...
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Can information campaigns reduce last mile payment delays in public works programme?Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We present experimental evidence in the context of a rural public works programme in India, where we assess the impact of an intervention...
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Inclusion amid ethnic inequalityPolicy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework. In recent...
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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in GhanaThe financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to...
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Clientelism, corruption and the rule of lawPart of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development
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Gender preference at birthInvestigating preference for sons is a continuing focal area of development economics and demographic research. Son preference presents a challenge in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of ‘no poverty’, ‘good health and...
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Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in AfricaAgricultural activities in many African countries are bedevilled by a range of risk factors. Using micro-level household datasets from a range of countries in Africa, we examine the drivers of agricultural risks, while exploring the role of context...
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Dynastic measures of inter-generational mobility with empirical evidence from IndonesiaWe suggest a simple and flexible criterion to assess inter-generational mobility. It accommodates different types of outcomes (continuous outcomes such as potential earnings, or discrete ones such as education groups) and captures dynastic...
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Clientelism, public goods provision, and governanceIt is widely believed that clientelism—the giving of material goods in return for electoral support—is associated with poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of clientelism on development...
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Rural financial intermediation and poverty reduction in GhanaThe financial sector in rural areas, where most of the poor people in sub-Saharan Africa are found, has transformed massively in recent times, notably through the increased penetration of several types of rural financial intermediaries in addition to...
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Do gender wage differences within households influence women’s empowerment and welfare?Using household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the effect of gender wage differences within households on women’s empowerment and welfare in Ghana. The...
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Agricultural input subsidy and farmers outcomes in TanzaniaThis paper examines the impact of the government input subsidy—the National Agriculture Input Voucher—on farmers’ production and welfare in Tanzania as well as the factors that influence agricultural production in the country. The analysis is based...
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