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James Fenske
Researcher at University of Warwick
Publications - 67
Citations - 1749
James Fenske is an academic researcher from University of Warwick. The author has contributed to research in topics: Land tenure & Property rights. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 62 publications receiving 1435 citations. Previous affiliations of James Fenske include Yale University & University of Oxford.
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Land tenure and investment incentives: Evidence from West Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between land tenure and agricultural investment in West Africa has been investigated, and the authors found that self-reported tenure security has been a poor predictor of investment outcomes.
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African polygamy: past and present
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used DHS data to test nine hypotheses about the prevalence and decline of polygamy in Africa, and found that historical inequality better predicts polygamy today than current inequality.
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Ecology, Trade, and States in Pre-Colonial Africa
TL;DR: This paper found that African societies in ecologically diverse environments had more centralized states, and that trade supported class stratification between rulers and ruled, and pointed out the importance of ethnic institutions and informed our knowledge of the effects of trade on institutions.
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Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health
TL;DR: This paper showed that psychological well-being in adulthood varies with circumstance in early life, using a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey. But they did not study the relationship between early life and early adulthood.
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Does Land Abundance Explain African Institutions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that abundant land and scarce labor shaped African institutions before colonial rule, and suggest that institutional differences across regions, but not within regions, are due to institutional spillovers.