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Trade Tax Evasion and the Tax Rate: Evidence from Transaction-level Trade Data 贸易逃税与税率：来自交易层面贸易数据的证据
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-03-31 DOI: 10.1093/JAE/EJAB005
A. Mengistu, K. G. Molla, G. Mascagni
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引用次数: 6
Africa's Latent Assets 非洲的潜在资产
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-03-29 DOI: 10.3386/W28603
Soeren J. Henn, James A. Robinson
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引用次数: 11
Impact of Index Insurance on Moral Hazard in the Agricultural Credit Market: Theory and Evidence from Ghana 指数保险对农业信贷市场道德风险的影响：来自加纳的理论和证据
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-03-03 DOI: 10.1093/JAFECO/EJAB003
John P. Dougherty, Richard A. Gallenstein, K. Mishra
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引用次数: 2
Estimating Demand for Third-party Quality Testing in Rural Grain Markets: Evidence from an Experimental Auction for Measuring Moisture Content in Kenya 估计农村粮食市场对第三方质量检测的需求:来自肯尼亚测量水分含量的实验拍卖的证据
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-03-02 DOI: 10.1093/JAE/EJAB002
A. Fuller, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert
{"title":"Estimating Demand for Third-party Quality Testing in Rural Grain Markets: Evidence from an Experimental Auction for Measuring Moisture Content in Kenya","authors":"A. Fuller, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert","doi":"10.1093/JAE/EJAB002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JAE/EJAB002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Traders in informal grain markets often lack incentives to sell grain dried to a moisture level that is safe for storage, due to weak regulations and lack of low-cost moisture testing technologies. This study estimated the demand for a third-party moisture testing service in western Kenya that can encourage safe drying and reduce asymmetric information between buyers and sellers. We utilised a Becker–DeGroot–Marschak (BDM) auction to obtain maize traders’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the moisture testing service and compared it with two alternative multiple price list (MPL) mechanisms for eliciting WTP. Traders had the opportunity to bid on the testing service with two different moisture metres. The first was a low-cost hygrometer that measures temperature and relative humidity and costs about $2.50. The second was a commercial moisture metre that costs $170 in USA but provides a more precise reading. Results suggest that the standard BDM auction and both MPL variants produced similar estimates of demand for our moisture testing service. On average, traders were willing to pay $0.28 to have their maize tested with the hygrometer and $0.39 with the moisture metre. An additional take-it-or-leave-it auction for the hygrometer itself revealed that traders were not sensitive to price changes around market price, although only 15% of the traders purchased the device. A service provider model using either device could be a way to make moisture testing accessible in rural grain markets in the absence of a supply chain that sells these devices directly.","PeriodicalId":51524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44286622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
What Factors Drive Transport and Logistics Costs in Africa? 驱动非洲运输和物流成本的因素是什么?
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-02-19 DOI: 10.1093/JAE/EJAA019
P. Plane
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引用次数: 5
Incomes and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990–2018 撒哈拉以南非洲的收入和儿童健康，1990-2018年
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-01-24 DOI: 10.1093/JAE/EJAA018
L. Grogan, L. Moers
{"title":"Incomes and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990–2018","authors":"L. Grogan, L. Moers","doi":"10.1093/JAE/EJAA018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JAE/EJAA018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper investigates the relationship between real incomes in Sub-Saharan African countries during 1990–2018 and child wellbeing. A new UNICEF-WHO-World Bank database of child growth and malnutrition and annual measures of child mortality from the World Development Indicators are employed. Changes in real incomes are related to changes in these measures. Real incomes are found to be strongly negatively conditionally associated with stunting, underweight and child mortality. The fraction of each country’s export revenue derived from major non-agricultural export commodities in 1990 is then used to construct a counterfactual value of export revenues. This measure is used to predict real incomes in a country in a year. The impact of incomes on child mortality outcomes is then assessed. Instrumental variables results suggest that improved incomes may have causally reduced neonatal and under-five mortality.","PeriodicalId":51524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41540316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Education, Access to Better Quality Work and Gender: Lessons from the Kagera Panel Data Set 教育、获得高质量工作和性别:来自Kagera面板数据集的经验教训
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-01-05 DOI: 10.1093/jae/ejaa011
A. Kamanzi, A. McKay, A. Newell, Cinzia Rienzo, Wiktoria Tafesse
{"title":"Education, Access to Better Quality Work and Gender: Lessons from the Kagera Panel Data Set","authors":"A. Kamanzi, A. McKay, A. Newell, Cinzia Rienzo, Wiktoria Tafesse","doi":"10.1093/jae/ejaa011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejaa011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 For many decades the worldwide expansion of supply and demand for skilled work has been at the heart of economic growth and development. In this paper, we use the 1991–2010 panel data from the Kagera Health and Development Survey in North West Tanzania to examine the work outcomes at the end of the panel of those who were young (7 to 24 years) in the baseline. First, we illustrate the significant extent to which advanced education and skilled work go hand in hand. We analyse specifically the baseline household factors enabling individuals to access more advanced education, and we find quite different results by gender. We then analyse, again by gender, how this education plus baseline characteristics matter for attaining skilled or professional work. We also study the importance of migration in the process and the degree of intergenerational mobility in skilled work. The results show vividly how some key household factors help young men advance in their education and career, while childcare in particular retards the progress young women can make.","PeriodicalId":51524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Economies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/jae/ejaa011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43551833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
OUP accepted manuscript OUP接受稿件
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/jae/ejab020
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引用次数: 1
OUP accepted manuscript OUP接受稿件
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/jae/ejab024
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引用次数: 1
OUP accepted manuscript OUP接受稿件
IF 1.6 3区 经济学
Journal of African Economies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/jae/ejab030
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引用次数: 2
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