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The uneven reach of the state: Using machine learning to map local state presence

How can we estimate state presence in areas where direct measurements are lacking? New research offers a solution to measuring state presence using machine learning techniques.

Methods & Measurement

Gustav Agneman Christoffer Cappelen Kasper Brandt David Sjöberg

Published

10.04.25

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How will climate change impact migration in Africa?

Population displacement may become an obvious adaptation margin to climate change in vulnerable regions like sub-Saharan Africa. How large will future climate-induced migration flows be? What could the associated welfare losses be, and what can polic...

Migration & Urbanisation

Bruno Conte

Published

28.03.25

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Why women in Africa’s services industry must outperform men to overcome customer bias

Workplace discrimination by customers directly, and negatively, impacts women’s outcomes in the service industry in sub-Saharan Africa.

Erin Kelley Gregory Lane Matthew Pecenco Edward Rubin

Published

07.02.25

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Smallholder farmers’ crop yields and productivity are failing to rise in sub-Saharan Africa

What has new evidence taught us about the evolution of smallholder agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa over recent decades?

Philip Wollburg Thomas Bentze Yuchen Lu Christopher Udry Douglas Gollin

Published

18.10.24

COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa

Insights from high-frequency phone survey data collection reveal that access, rather than hesitancy, prevents vaccine uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa

Philip Wollburg Yannick Markhof Alberto Zezza

Published

10.04.23

Polygyny and the economic determinants of family formation outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Changing economic conditions have differing impacts on women’s marital outcomes and family formation in polygynous vs non-polygynous areas

Institutions & Political Economy

Augustin Tapsoba

Published

13.02.23

Factor market failures and the adoption of irrigation in Rwanda

Land and labour market failures lead to inefficient adoption of otherwise promising irrigation technology

Maria Ruth Jones Florence Kondylis John Loeser Jeremy Magruder

Published

08.07.22

Bursting the bubble of population growth: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

The bulk of this century’s population growth lies in the exceptionally high demand for children of poorer households in sub-Saharan Africa

Céline Zipfel

Published

03.01.22

God insures those who pay: Formal insurance and religious offerings in Ghana

An experiment reveals that church members enrolled in formal insurance give less money to their church and to other charitable organisations

Institutions & Political Economy

Emmanuelle Auriol Julie Lassébie Amma Panin Eva Raiber Paul Seabright

Published

09.04.21

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