A rather unique panel tracking more than 3,300 individuals from households in rural Kagera,
Tanzania, during 1991/1994–2010 shows that about one out of two individuals/households …

This paper investigates the relationship between child marriage and economic incentives in
a setting where the bride price–a transfer from the groom to the bride's parents at marriage …

When markets are incomplete, cultural norms may play an important role in shaping
economic behavior. In this paper, we explore whether the custom of bride price–a transfer …

Large rural‐urban wage gaps observed in many developing countries are suggestive of
barriers to migration that keep potential migrants in rural areas. Using long panel data …

This paper develops the concept of 'action space'as the range of possible destinations a
migrant can realistically move to at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set …

During the 1990s, the northwestern region of Tanzania experienced a large inflow of
refugees. Using panel data (pre-and post-refugee inflow), we estimate the labour market …

We exploit a 1991–2010 Tanzanian household panel to assess the effects of the temporary
refugee inflows originating from Burundi (1993) and Rwanda (1994). We find that the …

While reasons for out-migration are relatively well understood, little is known about why
people return to their rural origins. We contribute to filling this gap in the literature by using …

This article shows that the seasonality of food consumption during childhood, conditional on
average consumption, affects long-run human capital development. We develop a model …

Over the past 2 decades, more than half the population in our sample of rural Tanzanians
has migrated out of their home communities. We hypothesize that this powerful current of …