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Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact on the precolonial market economy. Yet, current estimates substantially underestimate the volume of cowry imports.
María José Pont Cháfer
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Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The gender gap in non‐agricultural employment in developing countries is concentrated among rural married workers. Within‐family specialization is central: Married women spend more time on home production, work fewer market hours, and are less likely to incur fixed costs of entering non‐agriculture.
Huoqing Cao, Chaoran Chen, Xican Xi
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, 2018 In the West part of the Region of the Savannahs, animal production is part of ways of life rural of populations. If to be thirsty is agreed a source of lack of comfort for the animals, it was determined an emergence of conflicts between the different ...
Kankandja, Pouguinipo Malike
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Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Tephritidae family, or true fruit flies, comprises approximately 250 species recognized as economically significant due to their capacity to infest commercial fruits. These pests pose serious threats to both food security and trade, and are considered quarantine pests in areas where they are not yet established. In the European Union (EU),
Andrea Taddei +9 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
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Education and the Shadow Economy: A Panel Cointegration Analysis
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of education on the shadow economy across 132 countries over the period 1991–2020. To this end, panel cointegration and panel error‐correction models are employed. The results of the panel cointegration tests indicate a stable long‐term relationship among the selected variables.
Salvatore Ciucci
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov +2 more
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Threshold Regression for Fixed‐T$$ T $$ Panel Data with Interactive Fixed Effects
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper develops a new toolbox for estimation and inference in panel data threshold regression models with interactive fixed effects and a fixed number of time periods, T$$ T $$. The toolbox is designed to be simple, accurate, and computationally efficient.
Jan Ditzen +2 more
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Conflict, Climate, and Child Health: Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Many parts of the world are experiencing social and political instability, as well as ongoing climatic changes that are expected to accelerate in the years ahead. These changes can undermine children's health through multiple pathways, and the growing frequency of sociopolitical and environmental stressors increases the likelihood that ...
Brian C. Thiede +3 more
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Marital Dissolution, Repartnering, and the Realization of Fertility Desires in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Women who experience union disruption in sub‐Saharan Africa tend to have lower fertility than those in stable unions. It remains unclear, however, whether this pattern reflects lower fertility desires, constrained opportunities to achieve desired fertility, or both.
Ben Malinga John, Sara Yeatman
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