Richard Akresh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1632325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Akresh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Akresh |
| SIGNATURE | AKRESH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6180-0031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Education
We study long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school construction program. Exploiting variation across birth cohorts and districts in the number of schools built suggests that 43 years later men are more likely to work formally, outside agriculture, and migrate, and that men and women have better marriage market outcomes. Households with exposed women have higher living standards and pay more taxes. The mother's program…
Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health Impacts
Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency
Altruism toward others can inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility players expect to receive in a noncooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in West African polygynous households. We find cooperation, as evidenced by more efficient production, is greater among co-wives than among husbands and wives. Using a game-theoretic model, we show that this outcome can arise because co-wives are less altruistic towa…
War and Stature
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long-run impacts on human health capital. Individuals exposed to the war at all ages between birth and adolescence exhib…
Wars and child health
Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Using data we collected in Burkina Faso, we explore how child ability influences parents' decisions to invest in their children's human capital. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment. We explicitly incorporate direct measures of the ability of each child's siblings (both absolute and relative measures) to show how sibling rivalry exerts an impact on the parents' deci…
Civil War, Crop Failure, and Child Stunting in Rwanda
We combine Rwandan household survey data with event data on the timing and location of localized crop failure and armed conflict to examine the impact of these distinct shocks on children’s health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the shocks’ geographic extent and the exposure of children’s birth cohorts to the shock. We find that in poor and nonpoor households, boys and girls born during the conflict in regions …
Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing across provinces and the exposure of children's birth cohorts to the fighting. After controlling for province of residence, birth cohort, individual and household characteristics, and province-specific ti…
Armed Conflict And Schooling
Civil war, and genocide in particular, \n are among the most destructive of social phenomena, \n especially for children of school-going age. In Rwanda \n school enrollment trends suggest that the school system \n recovered quickly after 1994, but these numbers do not tell \n the full story. Two cross-sectional household surveys \n collected before and after the genocide are used to compare \n children in the same age group who were and were not …
Wars and child health
Civil War, Crop Failure, and Child Stunting in Rwanda
We combine Rwandan household survey data with event data on the timing and location of localized crop failure and armed conflict to examine the impact of these distinct shocks on children’s health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the shocks’ geographic extent and the exposure of children’s birth cohorts to the shock. We find that in poor and nonpoor households, boys and girls born during the conflict in regions …
Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Using data we collected in Burkina Faso, we explore how child ability influences parents' decisions to invest in their children's human capital. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment. We explicitly incorporate direct measures of the ability of each child's siblings (both absolute and relative measures) to show how sibling rivalry exerts an impact on the parents' deci…
Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency
Altruism toward others can inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility players expect to receive in a noncooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in West African polygynous households. We find cooperation, as evidenced by more efficient production, is greater among co-wives than among husbands and wives. Using a game-theoretic model, we show that this outcome can arise because co-wives are less altruistic towa…
Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Education
We study long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school construction program. Exploiting variation across birth cohorts and districts in the number of schools built suggests that 43 years later men are more likely to work formally, outside agriculture, and migrate, and that men and women have better marriage market outcomes. Households with exposed women have higher living standards and pay more taxes. The mother's program…
Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health Impacts
Armed Conflict And Schooling
Civil war, and genocide in particular, \n are among the most destructive of social phenomena, \n especially for children of school-going age. In Rwanda \n school enrollment trends suggest that the school system \n recovered quickly after 1994, but these numbers do not tell \n the full story. Two cross-sectional household surveys \n collected before and after the genocide are used to compare \n children in the same age group who were and were not …
Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing across provinces and the exposure of children's birth cohorts to the fighting. After controlling for province of residence, birth cohort, individual and household characteristics, and province-specific ti…
Civil War, Crop Failure, and Child Stunting in Rwanda
We combine Rwandan household survey data with event data on the timing and location of localized crop failure and armed conflict to examine the impact of these distinct shocks on children’s health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the shocks’ geographic extent and the exposure of children’s birth cohorts to the shock. We find that in poor and nonpoor households, boys and girls born during the conflict in regions …
War and Stature
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long-run impacts on human health capital. Individuals exposed to the war at all ages between birth and adolescence exhib…
Wars and child health
Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Using data we collected in Burkina Faso, we explore how child ability influences parents' decisions to invest in their children's human capital. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment. We explicitly incorporate direct measures of the ability of each child's siblings (both absolute and relative measures) to show how sibling rivalry exerts an impact on the parents' deci…
Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health Impacts
Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency
Altruism toward others can inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility players expect to receive in a noncooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in West African polygynous households. We find cooperation, as evidenced by more efficient production, is greater among co-wives than among husbands and wives. Using a game-theoretic model, we show that this outcome can arise because co-wives are less altruistic towa…
Long-Term and Intergenerational Effects of Education
We study long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school construction program. Exploiting variation across birth cohorts and districts in the number of schools built suggests that 43 years later men are more likely to work formally, outside agriculture, and migrate, and that men and women have better marriage market outcomes. Households with exposed women have higher living standards and pay more taxes. The mother's program…
Economics (9 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (3 works)