Markus Goldstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3710119 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Markus Goldstein |
| NOMBRES | Markus |
| APELLIDO | Goldstein |
| FIRMA | GOLDSTEIN M |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2631-6882 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 241 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Sex, Power, and Adolescence
Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa face high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV). This paper evaluates the impact of offering adolescent females a goal-setting inter- vention to improve sexual and reproductive health and offering their male partners a soccer-based intervention, which educates and inspires young men to make better sexual and reproductive health choices. Both interventions significantly reduce female reports of IPV. The soccer …
To Defer or to Differ
We conduct an original lab-in-the-field experiment on the decision-making process of married couples over the allocation of rival and non-rival household goods. The experiment measures individual preferences over allocations and traces the process of deferral, consultation, communication and accommodation by which couples implement these preferences. We find few differences in individual preferences over allocations of goods. However, wives and h…
What We Can Learn When Impacts Fail to Replicate
We evaluate the Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents programme that combines life and livelihood skills trainings with a safe space where young women can network and learn. The same multifaceted intervention was highly effective in raising adolescent girls’ economic and social empowerment when implemented in Uganda. In contrast, this randomised evaluation, using panel data on more than 3100 adolescents, finds no programme impact on any econ…
Up before Dawn
Small-scale cross-border trade provides opportunities for economic gains in many developing countries. Yet cross-border traders—many of whom are women—face harassment and corruption, which can undermine these potential gains. We present evidence from a randomized controlled trial that provided access to information on procedures, tariffs, and rights to small-scale traders to facilitate border crossings, lower corruption, and reduce gender-based v…
Business Training and Mentoring
Recent research shows that microenterprises in developing countries are constrained by their managerial capacity, especially in the areas of marketing, record keeping, financial planning, and stock control. In a stratified randomized controlled trial, experienced businesswomen in Ethiopia were given formal business training that addressed these constraints. A second-stage mentoring component in which a random selection of female mentees within th…
Spillover Effects of Girls' Empowerment on Brothers' Competitiveness
We use data from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda to examine the effect of empowering girls on their brothers’ competition preferences. Our identification strategy exploits random assignment of a girls’ empowerment intervention across communities and natural variation in sibling sex composition. We find that empowering girls significantly increases their brothers’ competitiveness. The results suggest that competition preferences are mallea…
Up before Dawn
Small-scale cross-border trade provides opportunities for economic gains in many developing countries. Yet cross-border traders -- many of whom are women -- face harassment and corruption, which can undermine these potential gains. This paper presents evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a training intervention that provided access to information on procedures, tariffs, and rights to small-scale traders to facilitate border crossings, l…
Breaking the Metal Ceiling
A range of reasons is cited to explain gender differences in business performance in Africa. Within those, the sector of operations is consistently identified as a major issue. This paper uses a mixed methods approach to assess how women entrepreneurs in Uganda start (and strive) operating firms in male-dominated sectors, and what hinders other women from doing so. The study finds that women who cross over into male-dominated sectors make as much…
Formalizing Rural Land Rights in West Africa
This paper presents early evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. The study examines the links between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The demarcation process involved communities in the mapping and attribution of land rights; cornerstones marked parcel boundaries and offered lasting landmarks. Consistent w…
The effects of home-based HIV counseling and testing on HIV/Aids stigma among individuals and community leaders in western Kenya
HIV counseling and testing services play an important role in HIV treatment and prevention efforts in developing countries. Community-wide testing campaigns to detect HIV earlier may additionally impact community knowledge and beliefs about HIV. We conducted a cluster-randomized evaluation of a home-based HIV testing campaign in western Kenya and evaluated the effects of the campaign on community leaders' and members' stigma toward people living …
Data against Natural Disasters
Data against natural disasters makes a \n valuable contribution to our understanding of the conditions \n and actions necessary for establishing effective disaster \n management information systems. The volume's \n introductory chapters outline the data needs that arise at \n different stages in disaster response and explore the \n humanitarian community's efforts to discover more \n effective mechanisms. These overviews are preceded by an \n int…
Data Against Disasters
Data against natural disasters makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the conditions and actions necessary for establishing effective disaster management information systems. The volume's introductory chapters outline the data needs that arise at different stages in disaster response and explore the humanitarian community's efforts to discover more effective mechanisms. These overviews are preceded by an introduction that summarize…
The Profits of Power
We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agriculture in Akwapim, Ghana. We show that individuals who hold powerful positions in a local political hierarchy have more secure tenure rights and that as a consequence they invest more in land fertility and have substantially higher output. The intensity of investments on different plots cultivated by a given individual corresponds to that individua…
Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed? Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana
The factors that determine inclusion and exclusion from mutual insurance schemes in Ghana are investigated. Personal relations within the household, social status, and connections within the community are important for receiving transfers in times of shortage. Outside the household, membership in major lineage, secular organisations, fostering history, and anticipated land inheritance matter in receiving assistance
The Causes of Village Cooperation
Village Republics (VR) (Wade 1988) explains village-based collective action in terms of intravillage conflict rooted in ecological conditions. Ragin et al. (2003 [this issue]) say that VR 's data point to intervillage conflict as the main driver-villagers organize themselves against incursions from people in other villages intent on stealing their resources. The authors show how Ragin et al. misstate VR 's argument and go on to describe problems …
Multivariate Analysis
The Profits of Power
We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agriculture in Akwapim, Ghana. We show that individuals who hold powerful positions in a local political hierarchy have more secure tenure rights and that as a consequence they invest more in land fertility and have substantially higher output. The intensity of investments on different plots cultivated by a given individual corresponds to that individua…
Multivariate Analysis
The Causes of Village Cooperation
Village Republics (VR) (Wade 1988) explains village-based collective action in terms of intravillage conflict rooted in ecological conditions. Ragin et al. (2003 [this issue]) say that VR 's data point to intervillage conflict as the main driver-villagers organize themselves against incursions from people in other villages intent on stealing their resources. The authors show how Ragin et al. misstate VR 's argument and go on to describe problems …
Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed? Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana
The factors that determine inclusion and exclusion from mutual insurance schemes in Ghana are investigated. Personal relations within the household, social status, and connections within the community are important for receiving transfers in times of shortage. Outside the household, membership in major lineage, secular organisations, fostering history, and anticipated land inheritance matter in receiving assistance
Data Against Disasters
Data against natural disasters makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the conditions and actions necessary for establishing effective disaster management information systems. The volume's introductory chapters outline the data needs that arise at different stages in disaster response and explore the humanitarian community's efforts to discover more effective mechanisms. These overviews are preceded by an introduction that summarize…
The Profits of Power
We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agriculture in Akwapim, Ghana. We show that individuals who hold powerful positions in a local political hierarchy have more secure tenure rights and that as a consequence they invest more in land fertility and have substantially higher output. The intensity of investments on different plots cultivated by a given individual corresponds to that individua…
Data against Natural Disasters
Data against natural disasters makes a \n valuable contribution to our understanding of the conditions \n and actions necessary for establishing effective disaster \n management information systems. The volume's \n introductory chapters outline the data needs that arise at \n different stages in disaster response and explore the \n humanitarian community's efforts to discover more \n effective mechanisms. These overviews are preceded by an \n int…
The effects of home-based HIV counseling and testing on HIV/Aids stigma among individuals and community leaders in western Kenya
HIV counseling and testing services play an important role in HIV treatment and prevention efforts in developing countries. Community-wide testing campaigns to detect HIV earlier may additionally impact community knowledge and beliefs about HIV. We conducted a cluster-randomized evaluation of a home-based HIV testing campaign in western Kenya and evaluated the effects of the campaign on community leaders' and members' stigma toward people living …
Breaking the Metal Ceiling
A range of reasons is cited to explain gender differences in business performance in Africa. Within those, the sector of operations is consistently identified as a major issue. This paper uses a mixed methods approach to assess how women entrepreneurs in Uganda start (and strive) operating firms in male-dominated sectors, and what hinders other women from doing so. The study finds that women who cross over into male-dominated sectors make as much…
Formalizing Rural Land Rights in West Africa
This paper presents early evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. The study examines the links between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The demarcation process involved communities in the mapping and attribution of land rights; cornerstones marked parcel boundaries and offered lasting landmarks. Consistent w…
Up before Dawn
Small-scale cross-border trade provides opportunities for economic gains in many developing countries. Yet cross-border traders -- many of whom are women -- face harassment and corruption, which can undermine these potential gains. This paper presents evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a training intervention that provided access to information on procedures, tariffs, and rights to small-scale traders to facilitate border crossings, l…
Business Training and Mentoring
Recent research shows that microenterprises in developing countries are constrained by their managerial capacity, especially in the areas of marketing, record keeping, financial planning, and stock control. In a stratified randomized controlled trial, experienced businesswomen in Ethiopia were given formal business training that addressed these constraints. A second-stage mentoring component in which a random selection of female mentees within th…
Spillover Effects of Girls' Empowerment on Brothers' Competitiveness
We use data from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda to examine the effect of empowering girls on their brothers’ competition preferences. Our identification strategy exploits random assignment of a girls’ empowerment intervention across communities and natural variation in sibling sex composition. We find that empowering girls significantly increases their brothers’ competitiveness. The results suggest that competition preferences are mallea…
Up before Dawn
Small-scale cross-border trade provides opportunities for economic gains in many developing countries. Yet cross-border traders—many of whom are women—face harassment and corruption, which can undermine these potential gains. We present evidence from a randomized controlled trial that provided access to information on procedures, tariffs, and rights to small-scale traders to facilitate border crossings, lower corruption, and reduce gender-based v…
What We Can Learn When Impacts Fail to Replicate
We evaluate the Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents programme that combines life and livelihood skills trainings with a safe space where young women can network and learn. The same multifaceted intervention was highly effective in raising adolescent girls’ economic and social empowerment when implemented in Uganda. In contrast, this randomised evaluation, using panel data on more than 3100 adolescents, finds no programme impact on any econ…
Sex, Power, and Adolescence
Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa face high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV). This paper evaluates the impact of offering adolescent females a goal-setting inter- vention to improve sexual and reproductive health and offering their male partners a soccer-based intervention, which educates and inspires young men to make better sexual and reproductive health choices. Both interventions significantly reduce female reports of IPV. The soccer …
To Defer or to Differ
We conduct an original lab-in-the-field experiment on the decision-making process of married couples over the allocation of rival and non-rival household goods. The experiment measures individual preferences over allocations and traces the process of deferral, consultation, communication and accommodation by which couples implement these preferences. We find few differences in individual preferences over allocations of goods. However, wives and h…
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