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Sara Lowes

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78Publications signalées
863Citations signalées
4Affiliations récentes

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Culture, Economy, and Development StudiesReligion and Society InteractionsGender, Labor, and Family DynamicsInsurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk ManagementReligion, Spirituality, and Psychology

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Religion in Emerging and Developing Regions

Sara Lowes, Benjamin Marx, Eduardo Montero

This article examines the evolving relationship between religion and economic development in emerging and developing countries (EDCs). Building on large-scale survey data and recent scholarship, we document persistent and, in many regions, increasing levels of religiosity. First, we present global trends in …

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0 citations Annual Review of Economics
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Data and Code for: The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa

Sara Lowes, Eduardo Montero

Between 1921 and 1956, French colonial governments organized medical campaigns to treat and prevent sleeping sickness. Villagers were forcibly examined and injected with medications with severe, sometimes fatal, side effects. We digitized thirty years of archival records to document the locations of …

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0 citations ICPSR Data Holdings
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Lab Experiments in Developing Country Contexts

Sara Lowes, Nathan Nunn

Lab-in-the-field experiments, in which lab experiments are conducted in more naturalistic settings, are increasingly being implemented in developing country contexts.In this chapter, we outline the conceptual and logistical challenges typically associated with lab-in-the-field experiments in non-Western settings.We describe the importance of worldviews …

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0 citations National Bureau of Economic Research
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Culture, Policy, and Economic Development

Natalie Bau, Sara Lowes, Eduardo Montero

Culture shapes how policies are made and how people react to them.This chapter explores how culture and development policy affect each other.First, we provide evidence that cultural mismatch -specifically a mismatch between project manager background and the location of project implementation -is …

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1 citation National Bureau of Economic Research
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Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change

Christian E. Lange, Thomas R. Barnum, David J. McIver, Matthew LeBreton et autres

Abstract Anthropogenic land use change facilitates disease emergence by altering the interface between humans and pathogen reservoirs and is hypothesized to drive pathogen evolution. Here, we show a positive association between land use change and the evolution and dispersal of Zaire ebolavirus …

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7 citations Ecological Monographs
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Family Structure and Childcare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aletheia Donald, Sara Lowes, Julia Vaillant

Extended family members can help women with childcare. Using data from 32 sub-Saharan African countries, we find that the prevalence of nuclear families relative to extended families is increasing over time. The overall share of nuclear families is 56 percent and is …

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2 citations AEA Papers and Proceedings

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