Report NEP-AFR-2013-06-24

This is the archive for NEP-AFR, a report on new working papers in the area of Africa. Quentin Wodon issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Zuzana Brixiova & Thierry Kangoye, 2013. "Working Paper 175 - Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland," Working Paper Series 472, African Development Bank.
• Henderson, J. Vernon & Roberts, Mark & Storeygard, Adam, 2013. "Is urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa different ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6481, The World Bank.
• Musumba, Mark & Mjelde, James, 2013. "Remitter/Receiver Relations in Africa," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150123, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Pietro Calice, 2013. "Working Paper 174 - African Development Finance Institutions: Unlocking the Potential," Working Paper Series 470, African Development Bank.
• Kadjo, Didier & Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob E. & Alexander, Corinne E. & Tahirou, Abdoulaye, 2013. "Effects of Storage Losses and Grain Management Practices on Storage: Evidence from Maize Production in Benin," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150522, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Sheahan, Megan & Ariga, Joshua & Jayne, Thomas S., 2013. "Modeling the Effects of Input Market Reforms on Fertilizer Demand and Maize Production: A Case Study of Kenya," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150697, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Asgari, Mahdi & Nogueira, Lia, 2013. "Institutional Differences and Agricultural Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150611, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Berazneva, Julia, 2013. "Economic value of crop residues in African smallholder agriculture," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150367, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Mathenge, Mary K. & Smale, Melinda & Opiyo, Joseph, 2013. "Off-farm Work and Fertilizer Intensification among Smallholder Farmers in Kenya: A Cross-Crop Comparison," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150638, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Takeshima, Hiroyuki & Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O., 2013. "Fertilizer Subsidy, Political Influence and Local Food Prices in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Nigeria," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150327, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Brown, Molly & Higgins, Nathaniel & Hintermann, Beat, 2013. "A Model of West African Millet Prices in Rural Markets," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150714, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Kamau, Mercy W. & Smale, Melinda & Mutua, Mercy, 2013. "Farmer Demand for Soil Fertility Management Practices in Kenya’s Grain Basket," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150722, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Nicholas Apergis & Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne & Rangan Gupta, 2013. "The Long-Run Relationship between Consumption, House Prices and Stock Prices in South Africa: Evidence from Provincial-Level Data," Working Papers 201326, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
• Collins, Julia C. & Foltz, Jeremy D., 2013. "Gender Production Differentials In Africa," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150130, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Zeng, Di & Alwang, Jeffrey Roger & Norton, George W. & Shiferaw, Bekele & Jaleta, Moti & Yirga, Chilot, 2013. "Ex-Post Impacts of Improved Maize Varieties on Poverty in Rural Ethiopia," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 149823, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Müller, Marc & Sanfo, Safietou & Laube, Wolfram, 2013. "Impact of Changing Seasonal Rainfall Patterns on Rainy-Season Crop Production in the Guinea Savannah of West Africa," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150412, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Thomas Laurent & Fabrice Murtin & Geoff Barnard & Dean Janse van Rensburg & Vijay Reddy & George Frempong & Lolita Winnaar, 2013. "Policy Determinants of School Outcomes Under Model Uncertainty: Evidence from South Africa," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1057, OECD Publishing.
• Cook, Aaron M. & Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob E. & Sesmero, Juan P., 2013. "How do African households adapt to climate change? Evidence from Malawi," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150507, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Debnath, Deepayan & Elobeid, Amani E. & Carriquiry, Miguel A., 2013. "Modeling the impacts of adopting Bt cotton by African countries on world fiber and bioenergy crop markets," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 149828, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Fisher, Monica & Reimer, Jeffrey J. & Carr, Edward R., 2013. "Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income?," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 149924, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Murray, Anthony G & Mills, Bradford F, 2013. "Do Improved Groundnut Seeds Make African Farmers More Food Secure? Evidence From Uganda," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 149790, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Chiputwa, Brian & Kostandini, Genti & Erenstein, Olaf & Kassie, Girma Tesfahun, 2013. "Adoption of Improved Seed, Varietal Diversity and Their Effects on Maize Productivity in Kenya," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150300, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Fabrice Murtin, 2013. "Improving Education Quality in South Africa," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1056, OECD Publishing.
• Ragasa, Catherine & Berhane, Guush & Tadesse, Fanaye & Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, 2013. "Quality Matters and Not Quantity: Evidence on Productivity Impacts of Extension Service Provision in Ethiopia," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150487, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Han, Peter & Foltz, Jeremy D., 2013. "The Impacts of Climate Shocks on Child Mortality in Mali," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150395, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Nicola Branson & Murray Leibbrandt, 2013. "Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa, 1994-2010," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1022, OECD Publishing.
• Lubungu, Mary, 2013. "Welfare Effects Of Smallholder Farmers’ Participation In Livestock Markets In Zambia," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150606, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Hightower, Lisa S. & Brennan, Mark A., 2013. "Local Food Systems, Ethnic Entrepreneurs, and Social Networks," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 149696, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Shinyekwa, Isaac & Othieno, Lawrence, 2013. "Comparing the Performance of Uganda’s Intra-East African Community Trade and Other Trading Blocs: A Gravity Model Analysis," Research Series 150227, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).
• Saenz, Mariana, 2013. "Gender and Policy Effects on Technology Adoption in Zambia," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150176, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Foltz, Jeremy D. & Gars, Jared & Özdoğan, Mutlu & Simane, Belay & Zaitchik, Ben, 2013. "Weather and Welfare in Ethiopia," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150298, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Bategeka, Lawrence & Kiiza, Julius & Kasirye, Ibrahim, 2013. "Institutional Constraints to Agriculture Development in Uganda," Research Series 150228, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).
• Brauw, Alan de & Eozenou, Patrick & Gilligan, Daniel O. & Hotz, Christine & Kumar, Neha & Meenakshi, J.V., 2013. "Biofortification, crop adoption and health information: Impact pathways in Mozambique and Uganda," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150514, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Handschuch, Christina & Wollni, Meike, 2013. "Improved production systems for traditional food crops: The case of finger millet in Western Kenya," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150223, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Dadzie, Nicholas & Kraybill, David S., 2013. "An Empirical Examination of Food-for-work Effects on Household Crop Choices using data from Ethiopia," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150159, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Amanor-Boadu, Vincent & Ross, Kara & Tembo, Gelson, 2013. "Factors Influencing Smallholder Bean and Cowpea Producers’ Market Participation in Zambia," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150046, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Nicola Branson & Murray Leibbrandt, 2013. "Education Quality and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1021, OECD Publishing.
• Debebe, Z.Y. & Mebratie, A.D. & Sparrow, R.A. & Abebaw, D. & Dekker, M. & Alemu, G. & Bedi, A.S., 2013. "Coping with shocks in rural Ethiopia," ISS Working Papers - General Series 560, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
• Klasen, Stephan & Reimers, Malte, 2013. "Looking at Pro-Poor Growth from an Agricultural Perspective," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 149745, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Amankwah, Akuffo & Egyir, S. Irene, 2013. "Modeling The Choice Of Irrigation Technologies Of Urban Vegetable Farmers In Accra, Ghana," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 149772, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Musumba, Mark & Zhang, Yuquan W. & DeRosa, Kyle, 2013. "Sustainable Agricultural Intensification In Southern Tanzania – A Bio-Economic Model Approach," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150126, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Seitz McCarthy, Aine, 2013. "Experimental Spousal Financial Decisions in Rural Tanzania," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150415, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Carletto,Calogero & Kilic,Talip & Savastano,Sara & Zezza,Alberto & Carletto,Calogero & Kilic,Talip & Savastano,Sara & Zezza,Alberto, 2013. "Missing(ness) in action : selectivity bias in GPS-based land area measurements," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6490, The World Bank.
• Edirisa Nseera, 2013. "Working Paper 176 - Medium-Term Sustainability of Fiscal Policy in Lesotho," Working Paper Series 473, African Development Bank.
• Miteva, Daniela A. & Kramer, Randall A. & Brown, Zachary & Smith, Martin, 2013. "A spatial model of household fuelwood extraction in northern Uganda," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150523, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Pitoro, Raul & Maredia, Mywish K. & Jin, Songqing, 2013. "Status of land ownership, land conflict, and perceptions and knowledge about the land law in Mozambique: Analysis of nationally representative data to assess the impact of land policy monitoring and c," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150624, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Boysen, Ole, 2013. "High Food Prices and their Implications for Poverty in Uganda From Demand System Estimation to Simulation," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150700, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Abdoulaye, Ibrahim Djido & Sanders, John H., 2013. "A Matching Approach to Analyze the Impact of New Agricultural Technologies: Productivity and Technical Efficiency in Niger," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150434, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Ihli, Hanna Julia & Musshoff, Oliver, 2013. "Understanding the Investment Behavior of Ugandan Smallholder Farmers: An Experimental Analysis," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150331, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Hoddinott, John & Sandstrom, Susanna & Upton, Joanna, 2013. "The impact of cash and food transfers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Niger," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 149919, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.