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Patterns of Global and African Economic Development
Major low and middle income regio...,
Why is ssa the foucs,
Ssa per capita income
13
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Theories of Growth
Neoclassical economic growth fram...,
Framework of the model of economi...,
Functional form of economic produ...
11
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The Curse of the Tropics - Bloom and Sachs (1998)
Where does gdp typicallyl ie,
Key channels proposed by bloom an...,
Agricultural factors
9
cards
Health and Wealth: Cause or Effect?
Claim of bloom and sachs,
How to interpret corr a b 0,
Claim of acemoglu johnson and rob...
6
cards
Ordinary Least Squares
When is omitted variable bias not...,
External validity vs internal val...
2
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Miguel and Kremer (2004)
Primary school deworming project ...,
Rct design,
Three types of analysis in the paper
13
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HIV/AIDS
How has hiv aids affected economi...,
Model for hiv aids spread,
Extension to hiv aids model think...
10
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Okeke (2022)
Core research question,
Experimental design,
Background
8
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Difference-in-Differences
Collection of panel longitudinal ...,
What does dd do,
Parallel trends assumption
5
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Girls Scholarship Program (GSP)
Experimental design,
Research question,
Theoretical perspectives why migh...
12
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Regression Discontinuity
What data are we looking at,
When can an rd be used,
Rd limitations
4
cards
Lucas and Mbiti (2014)
Research question,
Background,
Admission cutoffs
9
cards
Poverty and Witch Killing - Miguel (2005)
Circumstances of rural western ta...,
Witchcraft poverty and violence i...,
Witch murders
13
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Climate, Violence and Development
Important issue of water scarcity,
Case of lake chad,
Broader political violence
6
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Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004)
Why can t we just run an ols regr...,
Starting point of the paper,
Data
9
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Instrumental Variables
When is an iv approach helpful,
Identifying a causal effect
2
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Climate-Violence Connection
Hsiang burke and miguel 2013,
Climate change,
What should public policy do
3
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Economic Gangsters (2008) on Corruption and Diplomatic Parking Tickets
A key form of saving grain storage,
History of grain storage in meatu...,
Ngo grain storage process
11
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Tribe or Nation - Miguel (2004)
Ethnic diversity in ssa,
Measuring ethnic diversity,
Easterly and levine s main findin...
15
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Sports and National Identity - Depetris-Chauvin, Durante and Campante (2020)
Focus of the paper,
Research design,
Data sources
5
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Chinese Aid and Local Corruption - Isaksson and Kotsadam (2018)
How much leakage is there in fore...,
Critical perspective of foreign a...,
Rise of chinese foreign aid
13
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Long-Run Impacts of Slavery in Africa - Nunn (2010)
Slavery in african history,
The african slave trade,
Data on the atlantic slave trade
11
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Colonial Medical Campaigns - Lowes and Montero (2021)
European imperialism in africa,
Rapid expansion of european explo...,
Scramble for africa
19
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Economic Policy after Independence
Period of liberation,
Economic policy legacies of colon...,
Focus on agricultural policy
10
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An African Success Story: Botswana - Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2003)
Average per capita annual growth ...,
Circumstances in the 1960s,
Botswana vs sierra leone
8
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Rural Electrification in Africa - Lee et al (2020)
One of the biggest issues with el...,
Electrification randomisation,
Living under grid
11
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International Development Policy and Foreign Aid Perspectives - Archibong, Coulibaly and Okonjo-Iweala (2021), Silva (2022)
Legacy of economic reforms in the...,
Growth since the 1980s,
3 major dimensions of economic po...
7
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