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CREDIT produces research papers largely comprised by Internal and External Research Fellows. They are available for viewing or downloading in PDF format.

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2024

CREDIT 24/03: Implications of AfCFTA tariff reductions for EAC exports to Africa

Description: Evious Zgovu and Oliver Morrissey

CREDIT 24/02: Affirmative action and private education expenditure by disadvantaged groups: Evidence from India

Description: Athira Vinod

CREDIT 24/01: Direct and indirect effects of the Right to Education Act on the enrolment of disadvantaged groups in India

Description: Athira Vinod

2023

CREDIT 23/05: Taxation and Accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

Description: Roel Dom, Oliver Morrissey and Abrams Tagem

CREDIT 23/04: Social status and egalitarianism in non-lineage-based, agrarian communities in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of funeral attendance

Description: Abigail Barr and Mattea Stein

CREDIT 23/03: The long term effects of a medical intervention: Determinants and implications of orthotic equipment failure

Description: Aisha Abubakar, Sarah Bridges and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 23/02: The design and revenue impact of a tax receipts lottery: A lab experiment in Tanzania

Description: Cyril Chimilila, Remidius Ruhinduka and Vincent Leyaro

CREDIT 23/01: Crop diversification increased household welfare in Afghanistan (2011-2017)

Description: Hayatullah Ahmadzai and Oliver Morrissey

2022

CREDIT 22/04: NGOs and donors' funding: Evidence from Uganda

Description: Spiros Bougheas, Alessia Isopi and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 22/03: ICT, e-formalization and tax mobilisation efforts in sub-Saharan Africa

Description: Cyril Chimilila and Vincent Leyaro

CREDIT 22/02: Universal primary education and household welfare in Tanzania

Description: Livini Donath, Oliver Morrissey and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 22/01: Social status and egalitarianism in non-lineage-based, agrarian communities in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of funeral attendance

Description: Abigail Barr and Mattea Stein

2021

CREDIT 21/06: Internal v. external rent-seeking with in-group inequality and public good provision

Description: Dripto Bakshi and Indraneel Dasgupta

CREDIT 21/05: A subscription vs. appropriation framework for natural resource conflicts

Description: Dripto Bakshi and Indraneel Dasgupta

CREDIT 21/04: Youth education and household welfare in Tanzania

Description: Livini Donath, Oliver Morrissey and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 21/03: HIV/AIDS and sexual behaviour in Botswana

Description: David Mmopelwa, Oliver Morrissey and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 21/02: Pay period and the distributional effect of education on earnings: Evidence from recentered influence function

Description: Livini Donath, Oliver Morrissey and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 21/01: Does the pay period matter in estimating returns to schooling? Evidence from East Africa

Description: Livini Donath, Oliver Morrissey and Trudy Owens

2020

CREDIT 20/04: Heterogeneous effect of health insurance on financial risk: Evidence from two successive surveys in Ghana

Description: Samuel Ampaw, Simon Appleton and Xuyan Lou

CREDIT 20/03: Macroeconomic management on becoming an African oil exporter

Description: Oliver Morrissey and Lars Spreng

CREDIT 20/02: When are fiscal deficits inflationary in low-income countries?

Description: Michael Bleaney, Atsuyoshi Morozumi and Zakari Mumuni

CREDIT 20/01: Inflation targeting in low-income countries: Does IT work?

Description: Michael Bleaney, Atsuyoshi Morozumi and Zakari Mumuni

2019

CREDIT 19/11: Early childhood health during conflict: The legacy of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda

Description: Sarah Bridges and Douglas Scott

CREDIT 19/10: Household size, birth order and child health in Botswana

Description: David Mmopelwa

CREDIT 19/09: Prenatal care utilization and infant health in Botswana

Description: David Mmopelwa

CREDIT 19/08: Two Africas? Why Africa's 'growth miracle' has barely reduced poverty

Description: Rumman Khan, Oliver Morrissey and Paul Mosley

CREDIT 19/07: Aid and exchange rates in sub-Saharan Africa: No more Dutch Disease?

Description: Oliver Morrissey, Lionel Roger and Lars Spreng

CREDIT 19/06: How do international remittances respond to real exchange rate movements?

Description: Michael Bleaney and Mo Tian

CREDIT 19/05: Income diversification and household welfare in Uganda 1992-2012

Description: Rumman Khan and Oliver Morrissey

CREDIT 19/04: Gender differential effects of technical and vocational training: Empirical evidence for Tanzania

Description: Cornel Joseph and Vincent Leyaro

CREDIT 19/03: Employment mobility and returns to technical and vocational training: Empirical evidence for Tanzania

Description: Vincent Leyaro and Cornel Joseph

CREDIT 19/02: Does transparency come at the cost of charitable services? Evidence from investigating British charities

Description: Canh Thien Dang and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 19/01: Income shocks and poverty traps: Asset smoothing in rural Ethiopia

Description: Douglas Scott

2018

CREDIT 18/13: State history, intergenerational transmission and institutional trust in Africa

Description: Gian Luca Tedeschi

CREDIT 18/12: Economic sanctions and domestic debt: Burundi's fiscal response to the suspension of budget support

Description: Roel Dom and Lionel Roger

CREDIT 18/11: Risk connectivity and risk mitigation: An analytical framework

Description: Soumyatanu Mukherjee and Sidhartha S Padhi

CREDIT 18/10: Factor market participation and tests for separability in Afghanistan

Description: Hayatullah Ahmadzai

CREDIT 18/09: Sectoral choice and selectivity

Description: Nirodha Bandara, Simon Appleton and Trudy Owens examine labour force participation decisions and earnings across employment sectors in Sri Lanka and how they vary by gender.

CREDIT 18/08: Rates of return to education in Sri Lanka

Description: Nirodha Bandara, Simon Appleton and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 18/07: Decomposing the urban-rural welfare gap in Sri Lanka

Description: Nirodha Bandara, Simon Appleton and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 18/06: Two decades of declining poverty but rising inequality in Laos

Description: Peter Warr, Sitthiroth Rasphone and Jayant Menon

CREDIT 18/05: Remittances and asset accumulation in Bangladesh: A study using generalized propensity score

Description: Mehdi Chowdhury and Dragana Radicic

CREDIT 18/04: Blinded by the light? Heterogeneity in the luminosity-growth nexus and the 'African growth miracle'

Description: Lionel Roger

CREDIT 18/03: Exchange rate hysteresis in UK imports from South Asian countries

Description: Nusrate Aziz and Ahmad H Ahmad

CREDIT 18/02: Revisiting the old debate: on the relationship between size and productivity in Tanzania

Description: Basile Boulay

CREDIT 18/01: Assessing cohort aggregation to minimise bias in pseudo-panels

Description: Rumman Khan

2017

CREDIT 17/11: What motivates Ugandan NGOs to diversify: Risk reduction or private gain?

Description: Canh Thien Dang and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 17/10: Better performing NGOs do report more accurately: Evidence from investigating Ugandan NGO financial accounts

Description: Ronelle Burger, Canh Thien Dang, Trudy Owens

CREDIT 17/09: Analysing the determinants of health aid allocation in sub-Saharan Africa

Description: Abrams M E Tagem

CREDIT 17/08: Training to teach science: experimental evidence from Argentina

Description: Facundo Albornoz, María Victoria Anauati, Melina Furman, Mariana Luzuriaga, María Eugenia Podestá, Inés Taylor

CREDIT 17/07: Status, patterns, and microeconomic drivers of the extent of diversity in crop production: Evidence from Afghanistan

Description: Hayatullah Ahmadzai

CREDIT 17/06: A mixed-methods study of Bambara farming in Mtwara, Tanzania

Description: Basile Boulay

CREDIT 17/05: Collective action when public good returns are heterogeneous

Description: Abigail Barr, Trudy Owens and Ashira Perera

CREDIT 17/04: Crop diversification and technical efficiency in Afghanistan: Stochastic frontier analysis

Description: Hayatullah Ahmadzai

CREDIT 17/03 The economic impact of political instability and mass civil protest

Description: Samer Matta, Simon Appleton and Michael Bleaney use synthetic control methodology, which constructs a counterfactual in the absence of political instability, to estimate the output effect of 38 regime crises in the period 1970-2011.

CREDIT 17/02 Aid, taxes and government spending: a heterogeneous cointegrated panel analysis

Description: Abrams M E Tagem

CREDIT 17/01: Semi-autonomous revenue authorities in sub-Saharan Africa: Silver bullet or white elephant

Description: Roel Dom

2016

CREDIT 16/05: How accurate are financial reports of british charities?

Description: Canh Thien Dang and Trudy Owens

CREDIT 16/04: Catch-up in institutional quality: an empirical assessment

Description: Usman Khalid

CREDIT 16/03: Military spending, armed conflict and economic growth in developing countries in the post-cold war era

Description: M Nusrate Aziz and M Niaz Asadullah

CREDIT 16/02: Export response to sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade: firm-level evidence from a developing country

Description: Salamat Ali

CREDIT 16/01: Colonial legacy and poverty reduction in sub-saharan Africa

Description: Rumman Khan, Oliver Morrissey and Paul Mosley

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