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    Is Zimbabwe More Productive Than the United States? Some Observations From PWT 8.1 

    İmrohoroğlu, Ayşe; Üngör, Murat
    In Penn World Table (PWT) 8.1, several developing countries stand out as outliers with high total factor productivity (TFP) levels relative to the United States (U.S.). For example, in 2011, Zimbabwe and Trinidad and ...
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    How do empowerment and self-determination affect national health outcomes? 

    Garces-Ozanne, Arlene; Kalu, Edna Ikechi; Audas, Richard
    There remains a persistent gap in health outcomes between wealthy and poor countries. Basic measures such as life expectancy, infant and child mortality remain divergent, with preventable deaths being unacceptably high, ...
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    Income Inequality and FDI: Evidence with Turkish Data 

    Ucal, Meltem; Bilgin, Mehmet Hüseyin; Haug, Alfred A.
    This paper explores how foreign direct investment (FDI) and other determinants impact income inequality in Turkey in the short- and long-run. We apply the ARDL (Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag) modelling approach, which ...
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    Deadlines, Procrastination, and Inattention in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment 

    Knowles, Stephen; Servátka, Maroš; Sullivan, Trudy
    We conduct a field experiment to analyze the effect of deadline length on charitable giving. Subjects are invited to complete an online survey, with a donation going to charity if they do so. Participants are given either ...
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    What Explains Changes in the Level of Abuse Against Civilians during the Peruvian Civil War? 

    Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja
    Using a new monthly time-series data set, we explore the factors associated with variations in the number of civilians killed or wounded by participants in the civil war in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that an ...
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    Understanding the Etiology of Electoral Violence: The Case of Zimbabwe 

    Fielding, David
    Recent theoretical and empirical work indicates that incumbent governments are likely to attempt to influence election outcomes by violent means (rather than by bribery and fraud) when their level of popular support is ...
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    Ethnic Fractionalization, Governance and Loan Defaults in Africa 

    Adrianova, Svetlana; Baltagi, Badi H.; Demetriades, Panicos; Fielding, David
    We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract ...
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    The impact of climate change on crop production in Sub-Saharan Africa 

    Blanc, Elodie
    Considerable attention has been given to climate change and its impacts. Agriculture is of special concern as it is the primary source of food and is dependent on weather. There is a wide range of estimated climate change ...
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    The impact of US fresh milk production standards on dairy trade 

    Owen, P. Dorian; Winchester, Niven
    We analyse the impact of proposed changes in US legislation to allow greater use of dairy concentrate products in the production of fresh milk products. This change could potentially have a large impact on dairy trade as ...
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    Measuring Parity in Sports Leagues with Draws: Further Comments 

    Owen, P. Dorian
    This paper re-examines the calculation of the relative standard deviation (RSD) measure of competitive balance in leagues in which draws are possible outcomes. Some key conclusions emerging from the exchange between ...
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