Other NBER Working Papers Involving Africa

2011

w16854 Does Price Reveal Poor-Quality Drugs? Evidence from 17 Countries

w16830 School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

w16778 A Global View of Productivity Growth in China

w16774 Transition to FDI Openness: Reconciling Theory and Evidence

w16736 Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

w16721 Mobile Money: The Economics of M-PESA

w16699 How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels

w16677 U.S. International Equity Investment and Past and Prospective Returns



2010

w16654 Inflation Targeting

w16646 The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration

w16629 Unexploited Gains from International Diversification: Patterns of Portfolio Holdings Around the World

w16623 AGOA Rules: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions

w16616 New cellular networks in Malawi: Correlates of service rollout and network performance

w16614 Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Outcomes

w16610 The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World

w16600 Unilateral Tariff Liberalisation

w16597 African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations

w16594 Health Shocks and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Western Kenya

w16572 Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error: Evidence from the Human Development Index

w16571 Production Chains

w16568 Valuing Identity

w16559 Crisis "Shock Factors" and the Cross-Section of Global Equity Returns

w16557 Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments

w16552 Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa

w16548 A Note on Detecting Learning by Exporting

w16519 Efficiency Advantages of Grandfathering in Rights-Based Fisheries Management

w16512 The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization

w16481 The Decline and Rise of Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1961

w16479 How Big (Small?) are Fiscal Multipliers?

w16472 International Migration and Human Rights

w16462 Government, Openness and Finance: Past and Present

w16461 Understanding Transitory Rainfall Shocks, Economic Growth and Civil Conflict

w16449 You've Earned It: Combining Field and Lab Experiments to Estimate the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences

w16447 From the Great Moderation to the global crisis: Exchange market pressure in the 2000s

w16445 An International Comparison of Capital Structure and Debt Maturity Choices

w16441 Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

w16440 Climate and Civil War: Is the Relationship Robust?

w16426 Give Credit Where Credit Is Due: Tracing Value Added in Global Production Chains

w16425 Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality

w16415 Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

w16390 Does a Leapfrogging Growth Strategy Raise Growth Rate? Some International Evidence

w16368 Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

w16352 Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time

w16346 International Differences in Fiscal Policy During the Global Crisis

w16317 The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics

w16305 The Economics of Carbon Offsets

w16301 Specialization: Pro- and Anti-globalizing, 1990-2002

w16298 Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment

w16293 Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies across Countries and of Schools within Countries

w16292 To Join or Not to Join? Factors Influencing Employee Share Plan Membership in a Multinational Corporation

w16276 Protection Reduction and Diversion: PTAs and the Incidence of Antidumping Disputes

w16253 Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse: Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis

w16216 Law and Finance c. 1900

w16214 Why Don't Issuers Choose IPO Auctions? The Complexity of Indirect Mechanisms

w16203 An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA

w16196 Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities

w16171 The ABCDs of Health: Explaining the Reduction in AIDS in Uganda

w16126 Privatization and Nationalization Cycles

w16125 Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets: A Survey

w16115 HIV and Fertility Revisited

w16088 Trends in World Inequality in Life Span Since 1970

w16084 Are Free Trade Agreements Contagious?

w16069 Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative

w16047 Are Leading Indicators of Financial Crises Useful for Assessing Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Crisis

w16005 The Risk Content of Exports: A Portfolio View of International Trade

w16001 Deals versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It

w15981 Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War

w15960 Borders, Ethnicity and Trade

w15944 Theory, General Equilibrium and Political Economy in Development Economics

w15893 Quantifying the Impact of Financial Development on Economic Development

w15891 Understanding the mechanisms of economic development

w15863 Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda

w15856 The Politics of Monetary Policy

w15836 The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey

w15775 African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!



2009

w15433 Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income

w15280 Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions

w15199 Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

w15168 Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce

w15131 Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

w15000 The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys

w14998 Requiescat in Pace? The Consequences of High Priced Funerals in South Africa
Comment

w14918 Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

w14801 Civil War

w14783 The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa

w14707 Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

w14693 Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

w14690 Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development

w14637 Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa



2008

w14603 Endogenous Presidentialism

w14475 Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

w14467 The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

w14456 Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa

w14449 When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?

w14448 Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality

w14428 Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy

w14363 Can the West Save Africa?

w14248 HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

w14132 Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century

w14130 The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data

w14095 Is There a Market for Voluntary Health Insurance in Developing Countries?

w14050 Second-Best Institutions

w14045 Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?

w14039 Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain

w14033 When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence

w14024 China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa

w13838 The Cognitive Link Between Geography and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania

w13765 Trade and Empire

w13733 Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition: Learning from South Africa



2007

w13664 Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment

w13610 Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13541 Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries: Evidence from South Africa

w13442 Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

w13400 Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

w13396 "Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS Health Workers: Educating and Retaining the Workforce to Provide Antiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13395 Realizing the Gains From Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

w13367 The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades

w13332 Profit Sharing Between Governments and Multinationals in Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence From a Firm-Level Panel

w13317 Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

w13306 Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13300 Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya

w13247 Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

w13222 Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act

w13167 Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa

w13120 The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa: Benchmarking the Constraints

w13084 Takeoffs

w13070 Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria

w13050 On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate

w13049 HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?

w13034 Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

w12987 What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

w12971 Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?

w12892 Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology

w12837 On the Determinants of Mortality Reductions in the Developing World



2006

w12760 South African Trade Policy Matters: Trade Performance and Trade Policy

w12735 Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies

w12657 Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

w12610 Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

w12565 Understanding South Africa's Economic Puzzles

w12418 When Knowledge is not Enough: HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana

w12269 Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth

w12187 Debt Relief

w12181 AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa

w12108 Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions

w12038 Economic Transformation, Population Growth and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

t0333 Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit



2005

w11905 What You Export Matters

w11871 The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya

w11804 Market Structure, Outgrower contracs and Farm Output. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia

w11513 Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?

w11455 Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth

w11384 Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid

w11288 Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

w11242 Ex Ante Carrots instead of Ex Post Sticks: Two Examples

w11175 Globalization and Complementary Policies: Poverty Impacts in Rural Zambia

w11048 Does Food Aid Harm the Poor? Household Evidence from Ethiopia



2004

w10991 The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations

w10985 Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa

w10971 Incentives to Learn

w10750 Rule of Law, Democracy, Openness, and Income: Estimating the Interrelationships

w10680 Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

w10566 Growth Accelerations

w10498 Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

w10481 Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

w10438 Which Countries Have State Religions?

w10324 The Illusion of Sustainability

w10265 Does Illiquidity Alter Child Labor and Schooling Decisions? Evidence from Household Responses to Anticipated Cash Transfers in South Africa

w10230 Helping the Poor to Help Themselves: Debt Relief or Aid



2003

w10168 Competitive Liberalization and a US-SACU FTA

w10136 Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule

w10088 Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints

w10020 Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants

w10015 Addicted to Dollars

w9865 The Economic Tragedy of the XXth Century: Growth in Africa

w9846 New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000)

w9804 Addressing the Natural Resource Curse: An Illustration from Nigeria

w9797 Outcome Versus Service Based Payment in Health Care: Lessons from African Traditional Healers

w9671 Teacher Incentives

w9668 Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers

w9659 Does Competition Encourage Credit Provision? Evidence from African Trade Credit Relationships

w9490 Institutions Don't Rule: Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income

w9411 Fractionalization



2002

w9305 Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

w9213 Orphans in Africa

w9124 Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth

w9117 When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique

w9106 Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development

w8953 Odious Debt

w8933 The World Distribution of Income (estimated from Individual Country Distributions)

w8904 The Disturbing "Rise" of Global Income Inequality



2001

w8495 Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence from South African Pensions

w8481 Worms: Education and Health Externalities in Kenya

w8460 Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

w8438 Does Direct Foreign Investment Affect Domestic Firms' Credit Constraints?

w8390 Resource Curse or Debt Overhang?

w8124 Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa

w8119 Tropical Underdevelopment

w8114 Institutions and Geography: Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2000)



2000

w8061 Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation in South Africa

w8018 Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs: The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya

w8003 Bank Runs and Banking Policies: Lessons for African Policymakers

w7896 Outside Funding of Community Organizations: Benefiting or Displacing the Poor?

w7771 The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

w7743 Savings and the Terms of Trade Under Borrowing Constraints

w7717 Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part II: Design Issues

w7399 Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part I: Rationale

w7594 Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa

w7541 The Growth Costs of Malaria

w7530 Income-distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility



1999

w7399 Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Schools in South Africa

w7108 Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?

w6942 Why Not Africa?



1998

w6849 Geography and Economic Development

w6562 Trade Policy and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa



1997

1996

w5674 Elephants

w5572 Large Cash Transfers to the Elderly in South Africa



1995

w5398 Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth

w5216 Disease Complementarities and the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions



1994

w4805 How Many Monies? A Genetic Approach to Finding Optimum Currency Areas



1993

w4488 Population Increase, Extralegal Appropriation, and the End of Colonialism



1992

w3947 The Rush to Free Trade in the Developing World: Why So Late? Why Now? Will it Last?



1991

w3727 Do the Benefits of Fixed Exchange Rates Outweigh Their Costs? The Franc Zone in Africa



1990

1989

w3176 Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade Reform: Results from a CGE Model of Cameroon

w2887 Developing Country Borrowing and Domestic Wealth



1988

w1574 Collective Pegging to a Single Currency: The West African Monetary Union



1987

w2335 Taxation and Output Growth: Evidence from African Countries

w2220 Smuggler's Blues at the Central Bank: Lessons from Sudan