{"title":"Gendered Barriers to Formal Healthcare Utilization: Modelling Healthcare Demand in a Low-Resource Setting.","authors":"Elisa Cavatorta, Wendy Janssens, Alice Mesnard","doi":"10.1086/728096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper studies the relationship between national institutions and farming practices in Africa. The analysis exploits detailed geospatial data to compare farming practices across nearby plots exposed to the same underlying agroclimatic risk but belonging to adjacent countries with different national institutions. We develop a novel approach to measure crop risk without information on local prices, and use this methodology to assess how formal institutions affect decisions to cultivate “safer” versus “riskier” crops. The results show significant cross-border differences in outcomes. In countries with worse national institutions, farmers grew lower risk crops, diversified land across more different crops, and devoted more total land to agriculture. The findings cannot be attributed to cross-border differences in market access. Instead, the patterns are consistent with a setting in which differences in the expropriation of wealth and non-farm income affect how farmers respond to agroclimatic risk.
{"title":"National Institutions and Self-Insurance","authors":"Raphael Godefroy, Joshua Lewis","doi":"10.1086/728015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the relationship between national institutions and farming practices in Africa. The analysis exploits detailed geospatial data to compare farming practices across nearby plots exposed to the same underlying agroclimatic risk but belonging to adjacent countries with different national institutions. We develop a novel approach to measure crop risk without information on local prices, and use this methodology to assess how formal institutions affect decisions to cultivate “safer” versus “riskier” crops. The results show significant cross-border differences in outcomes. In countries with worse national institutions, farmers grew lower risk crops, diversified land across more different crops, and devoted more total land to agriculture. The findings cannot be attributed to cross-border differences in market access. Instead, the patterns are consistent with a setting in which differences in the expropriation of wealth and non-farm income affect how farmers respond to agroclimatic risk.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135648088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We estimate the effect of the Rwandan genocide on children born after the genocide using commune variation in genocide intensity and child work and schooling in the 2010 Demographic and Health Survey. We instrument for killings with the commune’s distance to the Ugandan border. Doubling killings per capita increases the probability of a child working by 3.35 percentage points and decreases the probability of a child attending school by 3.68 percentage points. Our results suggest a long-term impact of the genocide likely to affect Rwanda’s development into the future.
{"title":"The Long-Term Effects of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Work","authors":"Yoo-Mi Chin, Scott Cunningham, Pham Hoang Van","doi":"10.1086/720542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720542","url":null,"abstract":"We estimate the effect of the Rwandan genocide on children born after the genocide using commune variation in genocide intensity and child work and schooling in the 2010 Demographic and Health Survey. We instrument for killings with the commune’s distance to the Ugandan border. Doubling killings per capita increases the probability of a child working by 3.35 percentage points and decreases the probability of a child attending school by 3.68 percentage points. Our results suggest a long-term impact of the genocide likely to affect Rwanda’s development into the future.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135109330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuko Mori, Rajasekhar D., Manjula R., Takashi Kurosaki, Jun Goto
{"title":"Do Women Council Members Allocate More Public Goods? Evidence from Rural India","authors":"Yuko Mori, Rajasekhar D., Manjula R., Takashi Kurosaki, Jun Goto","doi":"10.1086/727799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727799","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134911773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychology, Soft Skills, or Cash? Evidence on Marginal Investments","authors":"Megan Lang, Edward Soule, Catherine Tinsley","doi":"10.1086/727787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135734212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richer and Healthier? Social Pensions and Unhealthy Consumption Behaviour in China","authors":"Xiaobing Wang, Xinyuan Lei, Yanjun Ren, Jianyu Yu","doi":"10.1086/727535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43372324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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