The question whether and how climatic factors influence human migration has gained both
academic and public interest in the past years. Based on two meta-analyses, this paper …

Background Understanding relationships between substance use and suicidal ideation and
behaviour (SIB) has important public health implications for suicide prevention in low-and …

We explore the impact of reduced transaction costs on risk sharing by estimating the effects
of a mobile money innovation on consumption. In our panel sample, adoption of the …

Human migration attributable to climate events has recently received significant attention
from the academic and policy communities 1, 2. Quantitative evidence on the relationship …

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls'
dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The …

The conventional wisdom of Arthur Lewis's dual sector model says that households in the
agricultural (traditional) sector who can move out to a non-agricultural (modern) sector will …

Africa is likely to experience warming and increased climate variability by the late 21st
century. Climate extremes have been linked to adverse economic outcomes. Hence …

This paper addresses one of the major challenges in rural livelihood analysis to
quantitatively examine the dynamics of household livelihood strategies. It investigates the …

We study long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school
construction program. Exploiting variation across birth cohorts and districts in the number of …

Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and
non-agricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and …