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Nonso Obikili

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United Nations - Resident Coordinators Office

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Nigeria, Abuja

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Working papers

  1. Obikili, Nonso, 2022. "Tubers and its Role in Historic Political Fragmentation in Africa," MPRA Paper 113201, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  2. Archibong, Belinda & Obikili, Nonso, 2020. "Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration," African Economic History Working Paper 52/2019, African Economic History Network.
  3. Johan Fourie & Nonso Obikili, 2019. "Decolonizing with data: The cliometric turn in African economic history," Working Papers 02/2019, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
  4. Biniam E. Bedasso & Nonso Obikili, 2017. "Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa," Working Papers 661, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  5. Johannes Fedderke & Nonso Obikili & Nicola Viegi, 2016. "Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors: An analysis with administrative data," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-40, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  6. Nonso Obikili, 2015. "The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in South Africa," Working Papers 525, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  7. Nonso Obikili, 2014. "An examination of sub-national growth in Nigeria: 1999 – 2012," Working Papers 438, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  8. Nonso Obikili, 2014. "The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Local Political Fragmentation in Africa," Working Papers 406, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  9. Nonso Obikili, 2013. "The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era," Working Papers 378, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  10. Nonso Obikili, 2013. "Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western Nigeria," Working Papers 382, Economic Research Southern Africa.

Articles

  1. Nonso Obikili, 2019. "The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in South Africa," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 87(1), pages 3-21, March.
  2. Johannes Fedderke & Nonso Obikili & Nicola Viegi, 2018. "Markups and Concentration in South African Manufacturing Sectors: An Analysis with Administrative Data," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 86(S1), pages 120-140, January.
  3. Biniam E. Bedasso & Nonso Obikili, 2016. "A Dream Deferred: The Microfoundations of Direct Political Action in Pre- and Post-democratisation South Africa," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(1), pages 130-146, January.
  4. Nonso Obikili, 2016. "The trans-Atlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in Africa," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 69(4), pages 1157-1177, November.
  5. Nonso Obikili, 2016. "Editor's choice The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in West Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), vol. 25(1), pages 1-27.
  6. Nonso Obikili, 2015. "Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western Nigeria," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 1-22, June.
  7. Nonso Obikili, 2015. "An Examination of Subnational Growth in Nigeria: 1999-2012," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 83(3), pages 335-356, September.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Archibong, Belinda & Obikili, Nonso, 2020. "Prison Labour: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration," African Economic History Working Paper 52/2019, African Economic History Network.

    Cited by:

    1. Marie Christelle Mabeu & Roland Pongou, 2021. "The Interplay Between Colonial History and Postcolonial Institutions: Evidence from Cameroon," Working Papers 2111E Classification-D02,, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics.
    2. Zanella, Giulio, 2020. "Prison Work and Convict Rehabilitation," IZA Discussion Papers 13446, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Marazyan, Karine, 2022. "Documenting Inter-personal Conflicts in Senegal during the First Quarter the 20th Century using Dispute Registries from native courts," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) 2209, CEPREMAP.
    4. Okoye, Dozie, 2021. "Things fall apart? Missions, institutions, and interpersonal trust," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    5. Dozie & Roland Pongou, 2021. "Missions and Heterogeneous Social Change: Evidence from Border Discontinuities in the Emirates of Nigeria," Working Papers 2112E Classification-I20,, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics.

  2. Johan Fourie & Nonso Obikili, 2019. "Decolonizing with data: The cliometric turn in African economic history," Working Papers 02/2019, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Johan Fourie, 2019. "Who writes African economic history?," Working Papers 09/2019, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
    2. Alberto Bisin & Giovanni Federico, 2021. "Merger or Acquisition? Introduction to the Handbook of Historical Economics," NBER Working Papers 28786, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Martina Cioni & Giovanni Federico & Michelangelo Vasta, 2021. "Spreading Clio: a quantitative analysis of the first 25 years of the European Review of Economic History [Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesi," European Review of Economic History, Oxford University Press, vol. 25(4), pages 618-644.

  3. Johannes Fedderke & Nonso Obikili & Nicola Viegi, 2016. "Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors: An analysis with administrative data," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2016-40, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

    Cited by:

    1. Weche John P. & Wagner Joachim, 2021. "Markups and Concentration in the Context of Digitization: Evidence from German Manufacturing Industries," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 241(5-6), pages 667-699, November.
    2. Johannes Fedderke & Yang Liu, 2016. "Inflation in South Africa An Assessment of Alternative Inflation Models," Working Papers 7275, South African Reserve Bank.
    3. Bassier, Ihsaan, 2022. "Firms and inequality when unemployment is high," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117999, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    4. Channing Arndt, 2017. "New data, new approaches and new evidence: A policy synthesis," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-202, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    5. Haroon Bhorat & Morné Oosthuizen & Kezia Lilenstein & François Steenkamp, 2017. "Firm-level determinants of earnings in the formal sector of the South African labour market," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-25, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    6. Christopher Loewald & David Faulkner & Konstantin Makrelov, 2020. "Time consistency and economic growth: A case study of South African macroeconomic policy," Working Papers 842, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    7. Ihsaan Bassier, 2022. "Firms and inequality when unemployment is high," CEP Discussion Papers dp1872, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    8. Reda Cherif & Sandesh Dhungana & Xiangming Fang & Mr. Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia & Yuanchen Yang & Mustafa Yenice & Jung Eun Yoon, 2020. "Competition, Competitiveness and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa," IMF Working Papers 2020/030, International Monetary Fund.
    9. Chortareas, Georgios & Noikokyris, Emmanouil & Rakeeb, Fathima Roshan, 2021. "Investment, firm-specific uncertainty, and market power in South Africa," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 389-395.
    10. Joshua Budlender, 2019. "Markups and market structure in South Africa: What can be learnt from new administrative data?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-58, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    11. Ihsaan Bassier, 2019. "The wage-setting power of firms: Rent-sharing and monopsony in South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-34, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    12. Fedderke, Johannes W., 2018. "Exploring unbalanced growth: Understanding the sectoral structure of the South African economy," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 177-189.
    13. Lawrence Edwards & Ayanda Hlatshwayo, 2020. "Exchange rates and firm export performance in South Africa," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2020-1, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    14. Samuel Vika Mhlanga & Neil Andrew Rankin, 2021. "Fixed costs, markups and concentration in Eswatini (Swaziland): A firm‐level analysis of panel data," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 89(3), pages 391-416, September.

  4. Nonso Obikili, 2015. "The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in South Africa," Working Papers 525, Economic Research Southern Africa.

    Cited by:

    1. Maddah, Majid & Ghaffari Nejad, Amir Hossein & Sargolzaei, Mostafa, 2022. "Natural resources, political competition, and economic growth: An empirical evidence from dynamic panel threshold kink analysis in Iranian provinces," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    2. Carolyn Chisadza & Leoné Walters & Manoel Bittencourt, 2019. "Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa," Working Papers 787, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    3. Chaudhry, Ahmed & Mazhar, Ummad, 2019. "Political competition and economic policy: Empirical evidence from Pakistan," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 13, pages 1-27.
    4. Chaudhry, Ahmed & Mazhar, Ummad, 2018. "Political competition and economic performance: Empirical evidence from Pakistan," Economics Discussion Papers 2018-27, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).

  5. Nonso Obikili, 2014. "The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Local Political Fragmentation in Africa," Working Papers 406, Economic Research Southern Africa.

    Cited by:

    1. Whatley , Warren C., 2017. "The Gun-Slave Hypothesis And The 18th Century British Slave Trade," African Economic History Working Paper 35/2017, African Economic History Network.
    2. Leone Walters & Carolyn Chisadza & Matthew Clance, 2021. "Slave Trades, Kinship Structures and Women Political Participation in Africa," Working Papers 202156, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
    3. Archibong, Belinda, 2019. "Explaining divergence in the long-term effects of precolonial centralization on access to public infrastructure services in Nigeria," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 121(C), pages 123-140.
    4. Obikili, Nonso, 2022. "Tubers and its Role in Historic Political Fragmentation in Africa," MPRA Paper 113201, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  6. Nonso Obikili, 2013. "The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era," Working Papers 378, Economic Research Southern Africa.

    Cited by:

    1. Remi Jedwab & Felix Meier zu Selhausen & Alexander Moradi, 2018. "The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development," CSAE Working Paper Series 2018-07, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    2. Fenske, James & Kala, Namrata, 2015. "Climate and the slave trade," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 19-32.
    3. Boxell, Levi, 2016. "A Drought-Induced African Slave Trade?," MPRA Paper 69853, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Boxell, Levi & Dalton, John T. & Leung, Tin Cheuk, 2019. "The Slave Trade and Conflict in Africa, 1400-2000," MPRA Paper 94468, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Dozie & Roland Pongou, 2021. "Missions and Heterogeneous Social Change: Evidence from Border Discontinuities in the Emirates of Nigeria," Working Papers 2112E Classification-I20,, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics.

  7. Nonso Obikili, 2013. "Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western Nigeria," Working Papers 382, Economic Research Southern Africa.

    Cited by:

    1. Johan Fourie & Nonso Obikili, 2019. "Decolonizing with data: The cliometric turn in African economic history," Working Papers 02/2019, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Nonso Obikili, 2019. "The Impact of Political Competition on Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities in South Africa," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 87(1), pages 3-21, March. See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Johannes Fedderke & Nonso Obikili & Nicola Viegi, 2018. "Markups and Concentration in South African Manufacturing Sectors: An Analysis with Administrative Data," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 86(S1), pages 120-140, January.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Biniam E. Bedasso & Nonso Obikili, 2016. "A Dream Deferred: The Microfoundations of Direct Political Action in Pre- and Post-democratisation South Africa," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(1), pages 130-146, January.

    Cited by:

    1. Dieter von Fintel & Eldridge Moses, 2017. "Migration and gender in South Africa: following bright lights and the fortunes of others?," Working Papers 09/2017, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics, revised 2018.
    2. Bedasso Biniam E. & Jaupart Pascal, 2020. "South-South migration and elections: evidence from post-apartheid South Africa," IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Sciendo & Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 11(1), pages 1-47, January.
    3. Steven Gordon & Jarè Struwig & Benjamin Roberts & Ngqapheli Mchunu & Samela Mtyingizane & Thobeka Radebe, 2019. "What Drives Citizen Participation in Political Gatherings in Modern South Africa? A Quantitative Analysis of Self-Reported Behaviour," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 141(2), pages 791-808, January.

  4. Nonso Obikili, 2016. "The trans-Atlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in Africa," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 69(4), pages 1157-1177, November.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  5. Nonso Obikili, 2016. "Editor's choice The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in West Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), vol. 25(1), pages 1-27.

    Cited by:

    1. Leone Walters & Carolyn Chisadza & Matthew Clance, 2021. "Slave Trades, Kinship Structures and Women Political Participation in Africa," Working Papers 202156, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
    2. Remi Jedwab & Felix Meier zu Selhausen & Alexander Moradi, 2018. "The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development," CSAE Working Paper Series 2018-07, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    3. Christoph Scherrer, 2018. "The Disrupted Passage from an Agrarian Rural to an Industrial Urban Workforce in Most Countries in the Global South," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 7(3), pages 301-319, December.
    4. Papaioannou, Elias & Michalopoulos, Stelios, 2018. "Historical Legacies and African Development," CEPR Discussion Papers 13309, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    5. Gershman, Boris, 2020. "Witchcraft beliefs as a cultural legacy of the Atlantic slave trade: Evidence from two continents," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 122(C).

  6. Nonso Obikili, 2015. "Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western Nigeria," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 1-22, June. See citations under working paper version above.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 9 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic & Financial History (6) 2013-10-18 2013-11-22 2014-02-02 2019-04-08 2022-06-27 2023-10-09. Author is listed
  2. NEP-AFR: Africa (5) 2013-10-18 2013-11-22 2014-02-02 2015-06-27 2019-04-08. Author is listed
  3. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (4) 2014-02-02 2014-08-20 2015-06-27 2022-06-27
  4. NEP-DEV: Development (3) 2014-02-02 2019-04-08 2022-06-27
  5. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (3) 2014-02-02 2015-06-27 2017-02-19
  6. NEP-SOC: Social Norms & Social Capital (3) 2013-11-22 2022-06-27 2023-10-09
  7. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (2) 2019-04-08 2022-06-27
  8. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2022-06-27
  9. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (1) 2015-06-27
  10. NEP-FDG: Financial Development & Growth (1) 2015-06-27
  11. NEP-HPE: History & Philosophy of Economics (1) 2019-04-08
  12. NEP-HRM: Human Capital & Human Resource Management (1) 2013-11-22
  13. NEP-INT: International Trade (1) 2014-02-02
  14. NEP-LAW: Law & Economics (1) 2023-10-09
  15. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages (1) 2023-10-09

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