By Cole Scanlon (Harvard University), Keaton Scanlon (Warren Wilson College), and Teague Scanlon (Pomona College). --- Microfinance, despite its mixed results in economic literature, continues to proliferate in many developing countries (Rooyen et al., 2012). This research project investigates the relationship between collectivism and microfinance.
Tag: development
Does Intercropping Improve the Outcomes of Export Assistance Among Kenyan Smallholders?
By Noah Nieting. Macalester College. --- Commodity export markets provide opportunities for gains from trade in developing economies, but smallholding farmers remain least likely to access these markets due to...
Health Consequences of Legal Origin
By Cole Scanlon. Harvard University. --- Considerable economic research suggests that the historical origin of a countrys laws is associated with legal rules and economic outcomes. This paper investigates differing public health outcomes of countries with common law legal origin (the British model) and civil law legal origin (the French model).
Beyond Cash: Mobile Money in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Shreyas K. Shrikanth. University of Texas-Austin. --- In an analysis of the current state of mobile money, I observe that despite the additional economic cost of using mobile money services instead of cash, there is still a demand for mobile money services in Kenya and Tanzania.
Financial Development and Economic Growth at Different Income Levels
By Cody Kallen. Washington University of St. Louis. --- This paper examines the effects of financial development on growth rates using a sample of countries at different points in time, with the observation for each country beginning at the year it reaches a GDP per capita of $10,000 in constant 2005 dollars.
Afterlife Beliefs, Work Ethic, and Economic Outcomes
By Nicholas Cornell. Rice University. --- This paper expands on the body of literature relating spiritual or religious beliefs to eco- nomic outcomes. It focuses on a hypothetical mechanism whereby cultural values are produced by religious...
Contraception Employed: Using Economic Models to Predict the Effect of Employment on Condom Usage in Brazil
By Seth M. Morokoff. Princeton University. --- Two separate theoretical frameworks suggest that employment may have a negative di- rectional effect on the probability of condom usage in the developing world.
Oil Development in the Amazon
By Abhishek Garg. Stanford University. --- The Amazon rainforest is one of the most bio- diverse but also one of the most oil rich places in the world. These two characteristics make policy decisions regarding the forest a dilemma between...
Near East Demographics and Terrorism
By Matthew J. Quick. University of Maryland. --- This paper analyzes the probable change in the incidence of terrorist events due to demographic factors for the Near East Region. I first present the predominant literature view that poverty, income inequality, and cultural differences...