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Landscapes of opportunity: Patterns of young people’s engagement with the rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa
While much has been said in recent years about the importance of engaging rural youth in sub-Saharan Africa’s development, the factual data about how African youth currently engage in rural economies remain sparse. We use recent nationally representati…
Structural transformation and gendered transitions to adulthood among rural youth: Cross-national evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Using frameworks on gendered transitions to adulthood, we analyse nationally-representative, sex-disaggregated data from 36 countries to examine how structural transformation (share of GDP from non-agriculture) and rural transformation (agricultural va…
Efficiency and status in polygynous pastoralist households
Decision-making structures may be different across polygynous and monogamous households, leading to different economic outcomes and requiring different targeting of anti-poverty programmes. We study efficiency in semi-nomadic pastoralist households in …
Taxing informality: Compliance and policy preferences in urban Zambia
What drives tax compliance among informal workers, and how does compliance affect their policy preferences? Informal workers in developing countries encounter multiple taxes levied by government authorities and non-state actors. Using an original surve…
Social protection, household size, and its determinants: Evidence from Ethiopia
We provide new evidence on the impact of social protection interventions on household size and the factors that cause the household size to change: fertility, child fosterage, and in and out migration related to work and marriage. Using data from an in…
Intertemporal choice and income regularity: Non-fungibility in the timing of income among Kenyan farmers
The optimal design of informal contracts in agricultural value chains depends on when farmers prefer to be paid for their output. While the evidence from time preference experiments suggests a preference for early payments, field studies often indicate…
Emigration and rising wages in Myanmar: Evidence from Mon State
School feeding or general food distribution? Quasi-experimental evidence on the educational impacts of emergency food assistance during conflict in Mali
This study relies on a unique precrisis baseline and five-year follow-up to investigate the effects of emergency school feeding and generalised food distribution (GFD) on children’s schooling during conflict in Mali. It estimates programme impact on ch…
Economic transfers and social cohesion in a refugee-hosting setting
There is increasing interest in understanding if social protection can foster social cohesion, particularly between refugees and host communities. Using a cluster randomised control trial, this study examines if a short-term transfer programme targeted…