Rural poverty poses a significant developmental challenge in Kenya. Using a panel survey
in rural Kenya and qualitative material from focus groups and life history interviews from the …

To what extent did sub‐Saharan Africa's twentieth century schooling revolution benefit boys
and girls equally? Using census data and a cohort approach, we examine gender gaps in …

We examine the long-term impacts of drought exposure on women born in 19 countries in
sub-Saharan Africa, across four decades. We find that women who were exposed to drought …

This study examines the impact of cash crop cultivation on household income and migration
decisions, using survey data collected from low-income regions in China. Given farmers …

Research on the effect of climate change on violent armed conflict relies almost exclusively
on analysing annual variation in climatic conditions. A shortcoming of this approach is that it …

We use high-resolution weather data and rich Ethiopian household-and plot-level data in
2011/12, 2013/14, and 2015/16 growing seasons to investigate the impact of weather …

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global recession and mass unemployment. Through
reductions in trade and international tourism, the pandemic has particularly affected rural …

Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extrajudicial
interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when …

Promoting the coordinated development of new agricultural business entities and small
farmers is an important way to realize rural revitalization. It is undoubtedly of great …

This study uses rainfall variation as an instrumental variable for rice production to estimate
the impact of poverty on different types of crime across British colonies in South and South …