Natural Resource Management in African Agriculture: Understanding and Improving Current Practices. Christopher Barrett, Frank Place and Abdillahi Aboud (eds). CAB International Publishing in association with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, 2002, 335 pp
Winter‐Nelson, Alex
Censored Quantile Regressions of Chronic and Transient Seasonal Poverty in Rwanda
It is crucial for social policy in Less Developed Countries to identify correlates of poverty at the household level. This has been done in the literature by estimating household poverty equations typically with Tobit and Probit models. However, when the errors in these equations are non‐normal...
Kovsted a , Jens; Pörtner b , Claus C.; Tarp a , Finn
This paper studies factors that influence child health in Bissau, the capital of Guinea‐Bissau. This environment is characterised by high infant mortality, but not by malnutrition. We show that although maternal education is important in determining child health and mortality this effect...
Price Discovery: The Case of Millet in Bamako, Mali
Bessler a , David A.; Kergna b , Alpha
Monthly time series data on millet prices from 12 markets in Bamako, Mali are studied in an error correction model. Contemporaneous correlation among innovations from this model are examined using directed acyclic graphs. Results suggest that price information is discovered in the Niarela and...
This paper investigates the main determinants of child labour and child schooling in Ghana, with special reference to their interaction. The study provides evidence on the impact of poverty and quality of schooling on child labour hours, taking into account their potential endogeneity. The...
Kovsted, Jens; Pörtner, Claus C.; Tarp, Finn
David A. Bessler, Alpha Kergna
Bypassing Health Centres in Tanzania: Revealed Preferences for Quality
Leonard a , Kenneth L.; Mliga b , Gilbert R.; Haile Mariam c , Damen
When patients bypass one health facility to seek care at another, strong preferences are revealed. The patterns of bypassing observed in Iringa Rural district in Tanzania show evidence of patients' understanding of various measures of quality at the facilities that they visit and bypass. We match...