Wartime Governance and Post-war Economic Activities: Evidence from Western Côte d'Ivoire

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Brief Overview

Our auction-style field experiment in western Côte d'Ivoire revealed that while investment information encourages individuals to expand their productive activities, this effect depends on the context of wartime governance.

Authors

• Yuichi Kubota, Nihon University

• Kazuhiro Obayashi, Hitotsubashi University

• Yukako Tanaka-Sakabe, Kyoritsu Women's University

• Akira Sato, Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO