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174 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17887
How Organized Is the Informal Sector? The Role of Business Associations in Microenterprises in West Africa
Clement Joubert, Kathleen Beegle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17597
Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies
Uwe Jirjahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17500
The Fertility Impacts of Development Programs
Aletheia Donald, Markus Goldstein, Tricia Koroknay-Palicz, Mathilde Sage
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17481
Roots of Cultural Diversity
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17459
Shine a (Night)Light: Decentralization and Economic Development in Burkina Faso
Olivier B. Bargain, Rose Camille Vincent, Emilie Caldeira
published in: World Development, 2025, 187, 106851
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17433
Firm Ownership Control and Management Practices, with an Update on Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew Dabalen, Saumik Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17391
Family Planning and Ethnic Heritage: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Chiara Falco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17203
Inherited Inequality: A General Framework and a 'Beyond-Averages' Application to South Africa
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Pedro Salas-Rojo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17136
Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data: An Exploratory Analysis
Hai-Anh H Dang, Talip Kilic, Kseniya Abanokova, Calogero Carletto
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. 16738
Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17
Hai-Anh H Dang, Dhushyanth Raju, Tomomi Tanaka, Kseniya Abanokova
published as 'Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17: An Investigation Using Synthetic Panels' in: Scientific African, 2024, 25, e02282
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. 16507
Minimum Wages and Unemployment during Economic Shocks
Joshua D. Merfeld, Matthew Sharp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16466
Educational Assortative Mating and Harsh Parenting in Sub-Saharan Africa
Luca Maria Pesando, Elisabetta De Cao, Giulia La Mattina, Alberto Ciancio
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2024, 351, 116954
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16396
The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad
Remi Jedwab, Federico Haslop, Roman David Zarate, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16210
Roots of Inequality
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16101
Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16068
The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity
Oded Galor, Marc Klemp, Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16047
(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 243, 111921
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16043
Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look
Wim Naudé, Fiona Tregenna
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15966
The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change
Nicolas Büttner, Michael Grimm, Isabel Günther, Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen
published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1585–1611.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15873
Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements
Hai-Anh H Dang, Talip Kilic, Kseniya Abanokova, Calogero Carletto
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, 71 (1), e12714
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15778
Counting Missing Women – A Reconciliation of the 'Flow Measure' and the 'Stock Measure'
Cara Ebert, Stephan Klasen, Sebastian Vollmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15721
The Puzzle of Educated Unemployment in West Africa
Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Meango
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15684
Learning Inequalities during COVID-19: Evidence from Longitudinal Surveys from Sub-Saharan Africa
Hai-Anh H Dang, Gbemisola Oseni, Alberto Zezza, Kseniya Abanokova
published as 'Educational Inequalities during COVID-19: Results from Longitudinal Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa' in: International Journal of Education Development, 2025, 112, 103174 (without A. Zezza)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15518
Manufacturing Employment and Women's Agency: Evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014
Louise Grogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15466
Evaluating the Impacts of Minigrid Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sinem H. Ayhan, Giacomo Falchetta, Jan C. Steckel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15432
Reaping the Rewards Later: How Education Improves Old-Age Cognition in South Africa
Plamen Nikolov, Steve Yeh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15406
Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis
Ivette Contreras-Gonzalez, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Janneke Pieters, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15265
Mother Africa's Exceptionalism? Income and Fertility Redux
Mark Gradstein, Phoebe W. Ishak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15210
Are the East African Community's Countries Ready for a Common Currency?
Thomas Kigabo-Rusuhuzwa, Almas Heshmati
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. 14982
Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa
Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Andrea Smurra, Celine Zipfel
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36 (1), 81-100
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14861
Increasing Women's Empowerment: Implications for Family Welfare
Kate Ambler, Kelly M. Jones, Michael O’Sullivan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14760
Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen, Ann-Kristin Reitmann
published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14720
Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Takaaki Masaki, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Viviane Sanfelice
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (2), 235–256
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. 14424
Prenatal Exposure to Heat Waves and Child Health in Sub-saharan Africa
Massimiliano Bratti, Prince Boakye Frimpong, Simone Russo
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. 14100
Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity
Paolo Brunori, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Vito Peragine
published in: Matthew Adler and Ole Norheim (eds.), Prioritarianism in Practice, Cambridge: CUP, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14054
Experimental Evidence from an Integrated Early Childhood Parenting Program in Sierra Leone
Anjali Chandra, Subha Mani, Heather Dolphin, Meredith Dyson, Yembeh Marah
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13777
The Effect of Antimalarial Campaigns on Child Mortality and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joshua Wilde, Bénédicte Apouey, Joseph Coleman, Gabriel Picone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13773
Why Are Africa's Female Entrepreneurs Not Playing the Export Game? Evidence from Ghana
Charles G. Ackah, Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley, Cecília Hornok
published as 'Africa’s Businesswomen – Underfunded or Underperforming?' in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62 (3), 1051-1074
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13736
Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13687
The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Joan Costa-Font, Mario Gyori
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 220, 266, 113353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13658
Broadband Internet and Household Welfare in Senegal
Takaaki Masaki, Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
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. 13586
The Extractive Industry's Impact on Economic Growth in SADC Countries
Simeão Nhabinde, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13363
Measuring Monetary Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Data Gaps and Different Options to Address Them
Aziz Atamanov, Sharad Tandon, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena
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