Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by UP Author "Chisadza, Carolyn"

Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by UP Author "Chisadza, Carolyn"

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  • A call for an immediate ceasefire and peaceful end to the Russian aggression against Ukraine 
    Yamey, Gavin; Arya, Akshaya Neil; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Causevic, Sara; Chisadza, Carolyn; Fewer, Sara; Friberg, Peter; Gloppen, Siri; Guha-Sapir, Debarati; Halonen, Tarja; Hoffman, Steven J.; Langer, Ana; Lyytikainen, Minna; Oppenheim, Ben; Ottersen, Ole Petter; Percival, Valerie; Mohamed, Idil Shekh; Thoms, Oskar Timo (Elsevier, 2022-04)
    The Lancet–SIGHT Commission condemns the Russian Government's aggression against Ukraine and its attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, including health workers and hospitals. We support the March 2, 2022 UN ...
  • Climate change and inequality : evidence from the United States 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Sheng, Xin; Gupta, Rangan (MDPI, 2023-03-17)
    This paper examines the effects of climate change on income inequality in the United States. Computing impulse response functions (IRFs) from the local projections’ method, we empirically show that there is an immediate ...
  • Conflict heterogeneity in Africa 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew) (Wiley, 2021-12)
    The economic development literature widely concurs that conflicts have adverse economic consequences that contribute to poverty, disinvestment and lower human capital leading to widespread inequality and lower economic ...
  • A decolonised Commission agenda : the missing ingredients – Author's reply 
    Percival, Valerie; Oppenheim, Ben; Thoms, Oskar Timo; Chisadza, Carolyn (Elsevier, 2023-11)
    No abstract available.
  • Economic development and democracy : the modernization hypothesis in sub-Saharan Africa 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Bittencourt, Manoel (Elsevier, 2019-06)
    Previous empirical literature focuses on income per capita as a measure for economic development. Using Lipset's modernization hypothesis as our theoretical framework, we contend that this measure does not capture the ...
  • Financial development and income inequality : evidence from advanced, emerging and developing economies 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Biyase, Mduduzi (World Scientific Publishing, 2023-03)
    We investigate the effects of financial development on income inequality for a global sample of countries between 1980 and 2019. The study contributes to the current literature by first, making use of a multifaceted index ...
  • The impact of oil shocks on the South African economy 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Dlamini, Janneke; Gupta, Rangan; Modise, Mampho P. (Taylor and Francis, 2016-08)
    The recent increases in oil prices have raised the importance of studying the effects of oil supply and demand shocks on an economy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the oil supply and demand ...
  • Income inequality and oil resources : panel evidence from the United States 
    Berisha, Edmond; Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2021-12)
    The resource curse is sometimes associated with poor resource-rich countries. However, using panel evidence from the United States, we find that the resource curse is also prevalent in a wealthy resource-rich country. This ...
  • The Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health equity and gender equality 
    Percival, Valerie; Thoms, Oskar Timo; Oppenheim, Ben; Rowlands, Dane; Chisadza, Carolyn; Fewer, Sara; Yamey, Gavin; Alexander, Amy C.; Allaham, Chloe L.; Causevic, Sara; Daudelin, Francois; Gloppen, Siri; Guha-Sapir, Debarati; Hadaf, Maseh; Henderson, Samuel; Hoffman, Steven J.; Langer, Ana; Lebbos, Toni Joe; Leomil, Luiz; Lyytikainen, Minna; Malhotra, Anju; Mkandawire, Paul; Norris, Holly A.; Ottersen, Ole Petter; Phillips, Jason; Rawet, Sigrun; Salikova, Alexa; Mohamed, Idil Shekh; Zazai, Ghazal; Halanent, Tarja; Kyobutungi, Catherine; Bhutta, Zulfiqara; Friberg, Peter (Elsevier, 2023-11)
    The multiple and overlapping crises faced by countries, regions, and the world appear unprecedented in their magnitude and complexity. Protracted conflicts continue and new ones emerge, fuelled by geopolitics and social, ...
  • Leaders and tenures in sub-Saharan Africa 
    Chisadza, Carolyn (Wiley, 2020-09)
    While there has been extensive evidence provided on the varying effects of leaders’ extended tenures on economic growth, political institutions and conflict, little attention in the empirical literature has been given to ...
  • Online and face-to-face learning : evidence from students’ performance during the Covid-19 pandemic 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Mthembu, Thulani; Nicholls, Nicky; Yitbarek, Eleni (Wiley, 2021)
    This study investigates the factors that predict students' performance after transitioning from face-to-face to online learning as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. It uses students' responses from survey questions and ...
  • Race and gender biases in student evaluations of teachers 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Nicholls, Nicky; Yitbarek, Eleni (Elsevier, 2019-06)
    Student ratings of teaching (SETs) are vital for academic career trajectories of higher education lecturers. Although student bias against female lecturers is noted in previous studies, mostly in the developed world, the ...
  • Ruggedness and child health outcomes : evidence from Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Van der Merwe, Fritz; Yitbarek, Eleni (Wiley, 2023-12)
    This paper examines the effect of terrain ruggedness on child stunting in Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria. Using a cross-section analysis with data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and a measure that ...
  • Social institutions, gender attitudes and female labour force participation in sub-Saharan Africa 
    Zawaira, Tendai; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Chisadza, Carolyn (Wiley, 2023-06)
    Using data from the Ethnographic Atlas and World Values Survey within a structural equation modelling (GSEM) framework, we analyse how historical social institutions and current gender attitudes influence female employment ...
  • Uncertainty and tourism in Africa 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gupta, Rangan; Wanke, Peter (Sage, 2022-06)
    Tourism growth is on the rise in Africa, and yet limited empirical evidence exists that explores the factors that drive this important contributor of economic growth on the continent. Previous literature focuses mainly on ...