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Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Niger’s 1986 Meningitis Epidemic
Belinda Archibong and Francis Annan - 18 June 2018 in Frontiers in African Economic History

Climate change might worsen social inequity by widening gender gaps in human capital investment   What is the impact of climate-induced health shocks on gender inequality? In almost every country in the...
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Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria
Vellore Arthi and James Fenske - 26 September 2016 in Frontiers in African Economic History

How have households in developing countries historically coped with shocks to their labor supply? Time is often the most valuable resource available to poor households, and its allocation across labor and other...
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Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980

Alexander Moradi, Gareth Austin and Jörg Baten

Posted in Working Papers

While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agricultural-export colony, scholars have queried whether it was sustained, and how far its benefits were widely distributed, socially and regionally. Using...
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