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1. Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages
abstractWe examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism about the economy. In contrast, we find no significant effects on children's health or schooling. Given substantial evidence from the literature that improvements in household economic resources can have large effects on children over the long run, the lack of shorterterm effects in this setting may reflect the time-varying nature of the impact or the need for additional complementary investments.
Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E.;2024
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E.; Sunder, Naveen;2024
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Link 3. Posh Spice or Scary Spice? Resource Booms, Wealth, and Human Capital across Ages
Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E.;2024
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4. Heterogeneity in migration responses to climate shocks : evidence from Madagascar
abstractWe analyze the impact of climate events on migration among a cohort of young adults residing in rural Madagascar. We find a strong negative impact of drought on the decision of youth to migrate in the year after the adverse weather shock. Household assets and access to savings institutions attenuate this impact, consistent with the notion that wealth and savings cushion the blow of the shock on the resources required to finance migration. We also find that households that report more social connections outside their villages are more likely to have their young adult members migrate. Our findings suggest that the liquidity constraints from climate shocks that prevent youth migration are more binding for young women who migrate largely for reasons of marriage and education. Males, in contrast, are more likely to migrate in search of employment, which often has higher economic returns than migration motivated by marriage and education. These factors likely explain why drought deters migration of young women, but not so for young men who still choose to migrate in search of a job.
Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E.; Tiberti, Luca; Dufour, Johany;2021
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Aubery, Frédéric; Sahn, David E.; Sunder, Naveen;2019
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link 6. Agricultural transformation and nutritional outcomes in Africa : prepared for the African Economic Research Consortium Collaborative Project on the Impacts of Agricultural and Food Policies on Nutrition Outcomes in Africa
Sahn, David E.;2019
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link 7. What you learned by second grade matters : a comparative study on human capital formation in Madagascar and Senegal
Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E.; Sunder, Naveen;2019
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link 8. Posh spice or scary spice? The impacts of Madagascar's vanilla boom on household well-being
abstractWe contribute to the long debate on whether export commodity revenues can lead to economic development by studying the consequences of the nearly six-fold increase in the global price of vanilla on vanilla farming communities in Madagascar. We find a substantial increase in the wealth and informal savings of smallholder vanilla farmers. This increase in material well-being is accompanied by improvements in cognitive skills and psychological well-being, as well as increased optimism regarding the country's economic conditions and trust in the ruling party and the president. This increased trust is likely not a result of improvements in public service delivery as we find no increase in the use of public services or access to public infrastructure. Despite the widespread gains for vanilla producing households we find no improvements in human capital outcomes for children and in fact we see evidence of a decline in school enrollment for boys. There is evidence of rising levels of vanilla theft, but we observe no increases in other types of crime or even fear of crime. These results indicate that higher returns on cash crop production can improve the well-being of adults in multiple dimensions, but the effects on children are more ambiguous
Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E.;2022
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9. Early life determinants of cognitive ability : a comparative study on Madagascar and Senegal
abstractWe study the determinants of educational and cognitive outcomes of young adults in Madagascar and Senegal employing a production function approach. Using unique and comparable long-term panel data sets from both countries, we find that cognitive skills measured using test scores in second grade are strong predictors of school attainment and cognitive skills of a cohort of individuals surveyed in their early twenties. The inclusion of early life household wealth, parental education and other household characteristics in the model does not diminish the impact of early cognitive ability on educational and cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have independent effects on educational attainment and adult cognition. In Senegal, both math and French scores are strong predictors of adult cognitive skills, whereas in Madagascar math plays a relatively stronger role. We find suggestive evidence that the association between early life cognitive ability and later life outcomes is stronger among girls as compared to boys. We also show significant differences in the relationship between early ability and later life test scores for those cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status - shorter individuals show a stronger relationship between second grade performance and later life outcomes. These findings highlight the importance of how falling behind in early life may be critical in determining longterm outcomes, particularly for vulnerable groups, that is girls and shorter individuals.
Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E.; Sunder, Naveen;2018
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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10. School or work? : the role of weather shocks in Madagascar
Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E.; Tiberti, Luca;2018
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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