List of Accepted Papers

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The papers below are listed by their paper ID number. If the authors have confirmed the full paper for the programme then the paper title is a link to the full paper. '*' indicates who presented the paper.

ID Authors Paper
4 Jackson, K* Why Does Diversity Matter? - An Empirical Analysis of Water Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa.
7 Kali, R*; Reyes, J Growth Networks.
8 Agbor, J A*; Fedderke, J; Nicola, V Does Colonial Origin Really Matter for Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa?.
12 Aliyu, S U*; Yakub, M U; Sanni, G K; Duke, O O Exchange Rate Pass-through in Nigeria: Evidence from a Vector Error Correction Model.
14 Radwan, I*; Strauss, P Achieving the promise of African cultural exports.
24 Qureshi, M S* Trade and Thy Neighbor's War.
28 Etang, A*; Fielding, D; Knowles, S Does Trust Extend beyond the Village? Experimental Trust and Social Distance in Cameroon.
29 Chripanhura, B*; Mosley, P* Does the African 'political business cycle' cause institutional damage?
32 Seck, A* International Technology Diffusion: Explaining the Spillover Benefits to African and Other Developing Countries.
41 Seetanah, B; Sawkut, R; Sannasee, V; Seetanah, B* Stock Market Development and Economic Growth in Developing countries:Evidence from Panel VAR framework.
50 Coleman, S*; Cuestas, J C*; Mourelle, E A nonlinear analysis of the relationship between real exchange rates and oil prices in African countries.
52 Amikuzuno, J* Spatial Price Transmission and Market Integration between Fresh Tomato Markets in Ghana: Any Benefits from Trade Liberalization?.
56 Dontsop Nguezet, P M*; Aliou, D; Victor, O O Estimation of actual and potential adoption rates and determinants of improved rice variety among rice farmers in Nigeria: the case of Nericas.
59 Barr, A; Dekker, M*; Fafchamps, M Bridging the gender divide: An experimental analysis of group formation among men and women in 14 Zimbabwean villages.
62 Bernard, T*; Taffesse, A S* Measuring aspirations: design and test of a new instrument in Ethiopia
63 Ndiaye, A* The Role of Capital Flight in Fluctuations in Domestic Investment: Evidence from the African Countries in the Franc Zone.
68 Gollwitzer, S A* Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Africa.
72 Ackah, C*; Medvedev, D* Internal migration in Ghana: determinants and welfare impact.
77 Ley, E* Exhaustible Resources and Fiscal Policy: Copper Mining in Zambia.
81 de Brauw, A; Mueller, V* Do Limitations in Land Rights Transferability Influence Low Mobility Rates in Ethiopia?.
83 Bchir, M H*; Chemingui, M A; Sehili, S* The Impact of Doha Trade Liberalization on Poverty in North African Countries: Lessons from General Equilibrium Analysis.
85 Akpan, E O* Oil Resource Management and Food Insecurity in Nigeria.
86 Ajetomobi, J O*; Odeniyi, K; Ajagbe, F A Productivity Growth and Technological Change in ECOWAS Agricultural Sector: A Non Parametric Analysis
88 Bleaney, M; Halland, H* The Resource Curse and Fiscal Policy Volatility.
99 Devarajan, S; Le, T M; Raballand, G* Increasing public-expenditure efficiency in oil-rich economies: A modest proposal..
103 Marazyan, K* Assessing the Effect of Foster-Children Supply on Biological Children Education Demand: Some Evidence from Cameroon.
106 Kamdem, C B* Determinants of price received by cocoa farmers in Cameroon.
109 Iacovone, L*; Cadot, O; Rauch, F; Pierola, M D Success and failure of African businesses on export markets.
110 Dunne, J P*; Uye, M Military Spending and Economic Growth in Sub Saharan Africa.
111 Lucas, A M; Mbiti, I M* Access, Sorting and Achievement: The Short- Run Effects of the Free Primary Education in Kenya
113 di Falco, S; Bulte, E* Social Capital and Weather Shocks in Ethiopia: Climate Change and Culturally-Induced Poverty Traps.
114 Drabo, A* Impact of Income Inequality on Health: Does Environment Quality Matter?.
117 Ndoye Niane, A*; Burger, K Horticultural household profit optimization and efficiency of labour contract choice.
121 Asfaw, S*; Shiferaw, B; Simtowe, F Does Technology Adoption Promote Commercialization? Evidence from Chickpea Technologies in Ethiopia.
123 Soderbom, M*; Fafchamps, M The diffusion of technology and contractual practices among African manufacturing firms.
126 Molini, V; van den Boom, B*; Zikhali, P Safety nets and production systems: Evidence from a pseudo-panel of Ghanaian household data.
127 Kareem, F O* Trade Flows and Employment Outcomes in Nigeria .
133 Ramessur, T S* Which is more important for Poverty Reduction- Growth or Employment? The case of a service based island.
137 Holmqvist, G A* Fertility impact of social cash transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa: What about pensions?.
142 Vollrath, D* Measuring Aggregate Agricultural Labor Effort in Dual Economies.
151 Shiferaw, A*; Bedi, A The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?.
152 Cazzuffi, C; Moradi, A* Why Do Cooperatives Fail? Evidence from Ghanaian Cocoa Producers' Societies, 1930-36
154 Dagnelie, O* Too Young to Marry: Evidence from Senegal on Child Mortality.
155 Clist, P P* 25 Years of Aid Allocation Practice: Comparing Donors and Eras.
156 Leyaro, V* Trade and Growth: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?.
159 Agu, C* Not yet Uhuru! Leakages and the Limitations of Remittances as an Alternative to Conventional Sources of Development Finance in Nigeria.
168 Chanda, A*; Farkas, B Technology-Skill Complementarity and International TFP Differences.
172 de Hoop, J J* Keeping Children in School: Why School Quality Matters in Sub-Saharan Africa.
175 Duponchel, M* Who is the Alien? Xenophobia in South Africa.
177 Verpoorten, M* A Way Forward in Measuring Micro-Level Conflict: The Case of Rwanda
179 Djemai, E* How do Roads Spread AIDS in Africa? A Critique of the Received Policy Wisdom.
180 Carter, P* Foreign aid and taxation: further muddying of waters. .
182 Thurlow, J*; Zhu, T; Diao, X Impact of Climate Variability and Change on Economic Growth and Poverty in Zambia .
183 Hartwig, R*; Grimm, M An Assessment of the Effects of the 2002 Malawi Food Crisis on Children's Health.
191 Rigterink, A* The wrong suspect. An enquiry into the endogeneity of natural resource measures to civil war..
192 Wahhaj, Z*; Kazianga, H Gender, Social Norms and Household Production in Burkina Faso.
195 de Paoli, A S* The effect of schooling on fertility, labor market participation and children's outcomes, evidence from Ecuador.
196 Behar, A* Directed technical change, the elasticity of substitution and wage inequality in developing countries.
197 Kamande, M W* Technical and Environmental Efficiency of Kenya's Manufacturing Sector: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis.
202 Bonfatti, R* Foreign Influence and the International Trade in Natural Resources.
203 Harding, T* Does it matter to whom you export? .
215 Berthelemy, J*; Thuilliez, J Malaria and preventive behaviours: is there a malaria trap?.
219 Sonobe, T*; Otsuka, K Assessing the impacts of managerial skill training in Ghana and Kenya.
221 Muto, M* The impacts of mobile phone and personal networks on migration: evidence from Uganda.
240 Vigh, M*; Gunning, J; Elbers, C Investment under Risk with Discrete and Continuous Assets: Solution and Estimation.
241 Bangake, C*; Eggoh, J International Capital Mobility in African Countries: Do the legal origins matter?.
247 Schoer, V*; Rankin, N A Does the survey question matter? Different proxies of the network effect and their impact on wages..
248 Fowowe, B*; Abidoye, B A Quantitative Assessment of the Effect of Financial Development on Poverty in African Countries.
249 Proto, E* Commercial Revolution, Anonymity and Technological Progress.
251 Gadenne, L*; Lledo, V; Yackovlev, I A Tale of Procyclicality, Aid Flows and Debt : Government Spending in Sub-Saharan Africa .
254 Ndirangu, L K*; Mathenge, M W Decomposition of Regional Inequality in Rural Kenya.
256 Alem, Y*; Söderbom, M Household-Level Consumption in Urban Ethiopia: The Impact of Food Price Inflation and Idiosyncratic Shocks.
258 Kudo, Y* Heterogeneous Population and Labour Market Outcome in Urban Africa: Migrants' Earnings in Ghana and Tanzania.
260 Mathenge, M K*; Tschirley, D Agricultural Shocks and Off-farm Labor Market Decisions for Rural Households in Kenya.
261 Starosta de Waldemar, F* How costly is rent-seeking to diversification: an empirical approach.
264 Alsamara, M K* The Determinants of Real Exchange Rate Volatility In Syrian Economy .
267 Kouame, E B* Risk, Risk Aversion and Choice of Risk Management Strategies by Cocoa Farmers in Western Cote D’Ivoire.
269 Kebede, B*; Zizzo, D J Social preferences and agricultural innovation in Africa: An experimental case study from Ethiopia
270 Mijiyawa, A G* Democracy Rules: The Prevalence of Political Approach in Determining the Quality of Private Property Rights Institutions.
271 Di Falco, S*; Veronesi, M On Adaptation to Climate Change and Food Security in the Nile Basin, Ethiopia.
272 Ballo, Z* Determinants of political participation in Cote d'Ivoire: the case of voting.
275 Eberhardt, M*; Teal, F Growth and Development in an Empirical Dual Economy Model.
279 Ndambendia, H*; Njoupouognigni, M Transmission channels and impact of global financial crisis on Sub-Saharan Africa economies.
282 Woldehanna, T* The impact of idiosyncratic and area-wide shocks on child work in rural Ethiopia .
284 Woldehanna, T* Economic shocks and nutritional achievements of five-year old children in rural and urban Ethiopia.
286 Andrianarison, F* Getting Prices Right : Mobile Phone Diffusion , Market Efficiency and Inequality.
287 Vaillant, J* Economic and spatial mobility in rural Madagascar: how strong is the link?.
295 McGuirk, E F* The Illusory Leader: Natural Resources, Democracy and Accountability.
296 Adelman, S; Gilligan, D O; Lehrer, K* Childhood Interrupted: How Conflict-Induced Shocks Shape Human Capital Formation in Northern Uganda.
307 Davies, V A* Labour contracts in alluvial diamond mining in Africa
320 Valsecchi, M* Ethnic diversity, economic performance and civil wars.
324 Domingues, P* The Health Consequences of Mozambican Civil War: an Anthropometric Approach .
325 Aguero, J M; Ramachandran, M* The Inter-generational Effects of increasing Schooling: Evidence from Zimbabwe.
326 Rattsø, J; Stokke, H E* Regional income convergence, skilled migration and productivity response: Explaining relative stagnation in the periphery.
327 Isopi, A*; Owens, T* What Determines Donor Funding to NGOs in Uganda?
329 Wren-Lewis, L* Do infrastructure reforms reduce the effect of corruption? Evidence from electricity distribution in Latin America.
337 Gachassin, M*; Najman, B; Raballand, G Roads Impact on Poverty Reduction: A Cameroon Case Study.
339 Verpoorten, M*; Serneels, P The medium term economic impact of human capital destruction: the case of Rwanda
340 Grover, A; Burger, R*; Owens, T* Money, mission or need: How do Ugandan NGOs choose activities?.
347 Serneels, P M*; Bardasi, E; Beegle, K; Dillon, A Do returns to education depend on how labor questions are asked?
349 McKay, A* Agricultural Wage Labour as a Core Poverty Group: Evidence from Rwanda
350 Aron, J*; Leape, J; Thomas, L Foreign Portfolio Investment and Capital Markets in South Africa
351 Aker, J C*; Ksoll, C; Lybbert, T ABC, 123: The Impact of Mobile Phones on Adult Literacy in Niger
355 Kaminski, J* Contracting with Smallholders under Joint Liability
367 Booysen, F* Fit to Play but Goalless: Labour market behaviour in a cohort of public sector ART patients in Free State province, South Africa
368 Ebeke, C H*; Combes, J Remittances and Household Consumption Growth Volatility in Developing Countries.
373 Adewole, M A* Elites, Institutional Persistence, Institutional Change and Economic Development-Lessons for Africa
381 Raddatz, C* Debt relief through the eyes of financial markets .
382 Siba, E G* Returns to Capital and Informality.
385 Voors, M*; Nillisen, E; Verwimp, P; Bulte, E; Lensink, R; van Soest, D Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi.
390 Misch, F*; Gemmell, N; Kneller, R Is Dealing with Growth Constraints a Second-Best Policy Strategy? Evidence from an Endogenous Growth Model with Public Finance.
392 Arcand, J*; Jaimovich, D; Zec, S Macrostructure and microstructure: Evidence from overlapping village networks in the Gambia.
397 Kengne Kamga, A* Trade-off between Child Labour and Schooling in Urban and Rural areas: evidence from Cameroon.
399 Dito, B B* Intra Household Labor Supply, Shocks and Women's Bargaining Power in Rural Ethiopia.
405 Rolleston, M C* Educational Access and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Ghana 1991-2006.
406 Ehrhart, H* Elections and the structure of taxation in developing countries.
408 Lindskog, A* Primary Education in the Ethiopian Highlands: Sibling's effects, risk aversion, and diversification..
410 Burger, R P* Estimating South African industry production functions with measurement error and parameter heterogeneity.
412 Fox, L*; Steel, W Why "formalization" is irrelevent: Processes of income generation in the nano-business sector.
413 Zeitlin, A* Risk attitudes and perceived returns in the adoption of agricultural technology
414 Bleaney, M; Dimico, A* Multiple Conflicts.
416 Bambio, Y* Consumption smoothing: empirical evidence from rural Burkina Faso.
420 Kerr, A N*; Quinn, S R Returns to Education in Tanzania: exploiting a natural experiment.
423 Buyinza, F* Labour Mobility and Export Productivity Spillovers: A case for Uganda manufacturing firms.
427 Batista, C*; Vicente, P Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment.
436 Stanley, R L* Trends in Child Survival in Sierra Leone, 1961-2008.
439 Mugisha, F*; Orem, J N To what extent does recurrent health expenditure in Uganda reflect Health policy priorities?
445 Vicente, P C*; Aker, J; Collier, P Electoral Education Using Cell Phones: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mozambique
451 Olaniyan, O; Lawanson, A O* Health Expenditure and Health Status in Northern and Southern Nigeria: A Comparative Analysis using NHA Framework.
453 Richmond, C*; Klapper, L The Political Economy of Firm Size.
456 Mutasa, G* The disincentive effects of disability grant on labour supply in South Africa: A cohort study.
457 Hove, S* Do institutional structures really matter for inflation targeting in emerging market economies.
460 Bhalotra, S* Missing Girls and Household Status
464 Teal, F*; Falco, P; Rankin, N; Sandefur, J The Returns to Formality and Informality in Urban Africa.
468 Aker, J*; Fafchamps, M I can hear you now: Mobile Phones and Farmers' Welfare in Niger
470 Fayad, G E* Remittances and Dutch disease: Evidence from Two Panels of Net Labor Exporters and Importers in the Middle East and North Africa Region.
472 Sandefur, J*; Siddiqi, B Global Trade in Tasks
473 Sandefur, J*; Siddiqi, B*; Zeitlin, A The Rule of Law and the Rule of Men: Forum Shopping in Liberia's Dualistic Legal System
474 Barr, A*; Zeitlin, A Social preferences in the lab and in nature: Evidence from Ugandan schools
475 Clarke, D J* Reinsuring the Poor: Group Microinsurance Design and Costly State Verification.
479 Dercon, S* What to ask your mother and father: Migration and remittances in Tanzania
481 Dupas, P* Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products.
486 Diallo, F L* Analyse de la Pauvreté Multidimensional en Guinée par l'approche des Ensembles Flous.
487 Aziakpono, M* Interest Rate Pass-Through and Monetary Policy Regimes in South Africa.
488 Johnson, A A* Recourse to prenatal care in Togo. A comparative analysis on its demand in rural and urban areas..
489 Fomba Kamga, B* Taxation Of Goods And Services Of The Informal Sector In Cameroun.
490 Mangani, R D* The Effects of Monetary Policy in Malawi.
491 Ndjanyou, L; Djienouassi, S* Characteristics and determinants of child labour in Cameroon.
492 Siri, A* Monetary policy regulation: lessons learned from ECOWAS countries.
494 Bold, T* Coalition-Proof Dynamic Risk-Sharing: Theory and a Test
496 Berg, E* Are poor households liquidity-constrained or myopic? Evidence from South African panel data..
497 Porter, C*; Outes-Leon, I Risk and Early Child Development in rural Ethiopia.
498 Dzene, R* What drives efficiency on the Ghanian cocoa farm?.
499 Opoku, E*; Dzene, R; Jansky, P; Teal, F; Zeitlin, A "Short and long-term impacts of credit for agricultural inputs: the case of the Cocoa Abrabopa Association"
500 Appleton, S; Atherton, P*; Bleaney, M International School Test Scores and Economic Growth.

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