Do messages of forgiveness or justice reduce violence? A survey experiment in Ghana and Liberia finds the opposite: both cues raised willingness to use violence to defend religious groups, except among the highly educated. The findings underscore the need to better understand the conditions under which such appeals work before making policy recommendations.
Digital technologies continue to shape livelihoods everywhere but access and beneficial usage remain unequal. This study takes on the case of Morocco and Tunisia, revealing how disparities in digital inclusion impact employment and socioeconomic well-being, highlighting persistent inequalities influenced by gender, age, education, and socioeconomic status.
Hopes and fears surround digitalization's impact on work, especially in developing countries where labour markets differ from OECD contexts. How do people in these regions perceive digitalization? Drawing on a field experiment in Ghana, we uncover a pronounced optimism linked to the prospect of employment and productivity gains as well as leapfrogging old systems.
Using a novel household panel data, this paper analyses transient poverty, the drivers of vulnerability to poverty in Ghana before and since the COVID-19 pandemic and provides implications for social protection.
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Conference 2023, Windsor Florida Hotel, Rio de Janeiro
Organisation: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
Evans Tindana Awuni (Vortragende:r)
The rapid diffusion of ICTs in Africa inspires both hopes and fears. This paper takes on the case of Ghana and uses micro-level survey data to investigate attitudes towards digitalization and the future of work as well as the reasons behind perceived optimism and pessimism.
Lehre | Willy Brandt School of Public Policy | 2024
Economic Analysis and Modeling
This course equips students with the economic tools needed for policy analysis, encouraging a practical understanding of Economics as a language for policy professionals. By examining supply and demand, market dynamics, and the role of politics, students assess policy impacts while critically evaluating economic perspectives within real-world contexts.
Lehre | Willy Brandt School of Public Policy | 2024
Political Economy of Development
Intriguing scholarly debates continue to surround the various strategies that propel development even as the terminology of development itself remains inherently ambiguous, complex and theoretically contentious.
Lehre | Willy Brandt School of Public Policy | 2022
Political Economy of Development
Why do some countries thrive while others lag behind in development? This seminar unpacks the complexities of development strategies through a political economy lens, exploring agriculture, industry, trade, and the roles of governments, NGOs, and global institutions, with a focus on the global south.
