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55 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17597
Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies
Uwe Jirjahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17094
Comprehensive Assessment of the Impact of Mandatory Community-Based Health Insurance in Burkina Faso
Delphine Boutin, Laurene Petifour, Yvonne Allard, Souleymane Kontoubré, Valéry Ridde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17075
The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16734
What Drives Attitudes toward Immigrants in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Uganda and Senegal
Malte Becker, Finja Krüger, Tobias Heidland
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16434
Gains from Variety: Refugee-Host Interactions in Uganda
Rama Dasi Mariani, Furio C. Rosati, Pasquale Scaramozzino, Marco D'Errico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16075
Permanent Instability of Preferences after COVID-19 Crisis: A Natural Experiment from Urban Burkina Faso
Delphine Boutin, Laurene Petifour, Haris Megzari
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16069
The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education
Ahmed Elsayed, Alina Shirshikova
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103101
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15583
Intra-Household Bargaining in Ivory Coast: Experimental Evidence from Rural Areas
Ralitza Dimova, Edouard Pokou Abou, Arnab K. Basu, Romane Viennet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15578
Parental Risk Preferences, Maternal Bargaining Power, and the Educational Progressions of Children: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Rural Côte D'Ivoire
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova, Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou, Romane Viennet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15004
Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa
Linguère Mously Mbaye, Assi Okara, Massimiliano Tani
published in: Journal of African Economies, 2024, 23 (5), 457–488
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14692
The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana
Simone Schotte, Michael Danquah, Robert Osei, Kunal Sen
published in: Journal of African Economies, 2023, 32 (S2), ii10 - ii33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14545
Crowdsourcing Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Findings from a Machine Learning Contest
Wim Naudé, Amy Bray, Celina Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14157
When Distance Drives Destination, Towns Can Stimulate Development
Joachim De Weerdt, Luc Christiaensen, Ravi Kanbur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14151
Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa, Samantha Lach, Takaaki Masaki
published in: Technology in Society, 2022, 68, 101845
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14062
Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova
published in: Journal of African Economies, 2024, 33 (1), 20 - 45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13649
Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19
Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13609
The Impact of HIV/Aids on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Evidence
Luke Chicoine, Emily Lyons, Alexia Sahue
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (6), 842-852
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13402
Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling
Ahmed Elsayed, Olivier Marie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13188
When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short
Asadul Islam, Sungoh Kwon, Eema Masood, Nishith Prakash, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Deepak Saraswat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13071
Key Players in Economic Development
Ashani Amarasinghe, Roland Hodler, Paul A. Raschky, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 223, 40-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13011
Household Behavioral Preferences and the Child Labor-Education Trade-off: Framed Field Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Arnab K. Basu, Ralitza Dimova
published as 'Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia ' in: Journal of African Economis, 2024, 33 (1), 20 - 45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11941
Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing
Wim Naudé
published in: Journal of International Affairs, 2019, 72 (1), 143 - 158
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11438
Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria
James T. Bang, Aniruddha Mitra, Phanindra V. Wunnava
published in: Migration and Development, 2022, 11 (3), 543 - 559
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11388
Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
Yusi Ouyang, Abebe Shimeles, Erik Thorbecke
published in: World Development, 2019, 117 (C), 13 - 28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11380
Job Satisfaction among Young Workers in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis
Andy McKay, Andrew T. Newell, Cinzia Rienzo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11008
Spatial Differences in Stunting and Household Agricultural Production in South Africa: (Re-)Examining the Links Using National Panel Survey Data
Steffen Otterbach, Michael Rogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10855
Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10387
Free Primary Education, Schooling, and Fertility: Evidence from Ethiopia
Luke Chicoine
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (2), 480-498
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10338
Do Leaders' Characteristics and Regime Transitions in Africa Matter for Citizens' Health Status?
Luis Diaz-Serrano, Frank Gyimah Sackey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10117
Service Sector Development and its Determinants in Rwanda
Eric Uwitonze, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10099
'Even' After Access to Financial Services? Ricocheting Gender Equations
Shoba Arun, Samuel Annim, Thankom Gopinath Arun
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9916
Identifying National Level Education Reforms in Developing Settings: An Application to Ethiopia
Luke Chicoine
published as 'Schooling with Learning: The Effect of Free Primary Education and Mother Tongue Instruction Reforms in Ethiopia' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 94-107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9794
International Migration: Driver of Political and Social Change?
Michele Tuccio, Jackline Wahba, Bachir Hamdouch
published as 'International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1171 - 120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9521
Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9099
Quality of Higher Education and the Labor Market in Developing Countries: Evidence from an Education Reform in Senegal
Dorothée Boccanfuso, Alexandre Larouche, Mircea Trandafir
published in: World Development, 2015, 74, 412-424
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8775
Training Funds and the Incidence of Training: The Case of Mauritius
Oluyemisi Kuku, Peter F. Orazem, Sawkut Rojid, Milan Vodopivec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8774
Capital Account Policies, IMF Programs and Growth in Developing Regions
Zorobabel Bicaba, Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Mthuli Ncube
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8567
Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour
Delphine Boutin
published in: Revue d’Economie Politique, 2014, 124 (4), 625-638
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8564
Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8524
Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8295
Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Nkechi S. Owoo, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8008
Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7855
A Demographic Dividend for Sub-Saharan Africa: Source, Magnitude, and Realization
David E. Bloom, Salal Humair, Larry Rosenberg, J.P. Sevilla, James Trussell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7820
The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia
Getinet Astatike Haile, Ilina Srour, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Eurasian Business Review, 2017, 7, 1-23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7747
"To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria
David N. Margolis, Luis Miotti, El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Joël Oudinet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7042
Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa
Samuel Annim, Thankom Gopinath Arun, Philip Kostov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6601
Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project
Jacobus de Hoop, Furio C. Rosati
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 39, 78-96
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6267
How Large Is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets
Marco Stampini, Ron Leung, Setou M. Diarra, Lauréline Pla
revised version published in: South African Journal of Economics, 2013, 81 (1), 140-165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6265
Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households
Richard Akresh, Joyce J Chen, Charity Moore
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64(4), 661-696
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4674
Capital-Skill Complementarity: Evidence from Manufacturing Industries in Ghana
Gokhan H. Akay, Mutlu Yuksel
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