Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania

OpenMobs: Mobile Broadband Internet Connection Sharing

We witness an explosion in the number of applications being developed for mobile devices. Many such applications are in need or generate a lot of Internet traffic, and as such mobile devices are today equipped with more networking capabilities, from mobile broadband (3G/4G) to WiFi, Bluetooth, and others. However, when it comes to mobile broadband Internet access, for economic reasons, today mo...

Post-Basic Education and Poverty in Tanzania

Agricultural Growth, Poverty, and Nutrition in Tanzania

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Labor Market Competitiveness and Poverty

How does labor market competitiveness frame the impact of greater labor productivity and lower inequality on poverty? Specifically, does greater competitiveness increase the impact of higher labor productivity and lower inequality on poverty reduction? In a simple model, we show that there is complementarity between competitiveness and productivity – the greater is one, the larger is the impact...

Poverty and “Witch” Killing in Tanzania

Existing empirical studies are typically unable to sort out the direction of causality between poverty and violent crime in less developed countries. This study uses rainfall variation in a poor rural Tanzanian district – which is plausibly exogenous, and is closely related to income – from a new dataset to estimate the impact of negative income shocks on murder rates, in 66 villages across ele...