Michael Kevane

Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department

Associate Professor

500 El Camino Real

Santa Clara, CA California 95053

United States

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1.

Darfur: Rainfall and Conflict

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Jun 2008
Leslie Gray and Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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Rainfall, Sudan, Darfur, Desertification, Climate Change, Conflict

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Diminished Access, Diverted Exclusion: Women and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Michael Kevane and Leslie Gray
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and Santa Clara University
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sub-saharan Africa, woman, land, Kevane, Gray

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Extra-Household Norms and Intra-Household Bargaining: Gender in Sudan and Burkina Faso

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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Microenterprise Lending to Female Entrepreneurs: Sacrificing Economic Growth for Poverty Alleviation?

World Development, Vol. 29, No. 7, 2001
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Jun 2008
Michael Kevane and Bruce Wydick
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and University of San Francisco - Department of Economics
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Central America, Guatemala, Microenterprise Finance, Gender Issues

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Expansion of Public Libraries in the United States, 1870-1930

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Mar 2008
Michael Kevane and William A. Sundstrom
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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Why Isn't There More Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Michael Kevane and Jonathan H. Conning
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and City University of New York, CUNY Hunter College - Department of Economics
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financial intermediation, mutual insurance, safety nets, microfinance

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Community-Based Targeting Mechanisms for Social Safety Nets: A Critical Review

World Development, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2002
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Feb 2008
Michael Kevane and Jonathan H. Conning
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and City University of New York, CUNY Hunter College - Department of Economics
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safety nets, poverty, targeting, community, social welfare, bureaucracy

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A Developmental State Without Growth? Explaining the Paradox of Burkina Faso in a Comparative Perspective

African Development Yearbook, Vol. 7, pp. 259-285, 1999
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Apr 2008
Michael Kevane and Pierre Englebert
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and Claremont Colleges - Pomona College
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Official Representations of the Nation: Comparing the Postage Stamps of Sudan and Burkina Faso

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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From Quasi-Private to Quasi-Public: The Development of Local Libraries in the United States, 1870-1930

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Mar 2008
Michael Kevane and William A. Sundstrom
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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The Effects of an 'Urban Village' Planning and Zoning Strategy in San Jose, California

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 29 Oct 2020
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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Upzoning, San Jose, Development, Urban, Planning, Housing

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Improving Design and Performance of Group Lending: Suggestions from Burkina Faso

World Development, Vol. 30, No. 11, 2003
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Feb 2008
Michael Kevane and Barbara MkNelly
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and Freedom from Hunger
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microfinance, group-based lending, gender credit, Africa, Burkina Faso

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Freedom, Servitude and Voluntary Labor

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Oct 2005
Jonathan H. Conning and Michael Kevane
City University of New York, CUNY Hunter College - Department of Economics and Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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Slavery, bonded labor, labor markets, collusion

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Social Norms and the Time Allocation of Women's Labor in Burkina Faso

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Apr 2008
Michael Kevane and Bruce Wydick
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and University of San Francisco - Department of Economics
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Evolving Tenure Rights and Agricultural Intensification in Southwestern Burkina Faso

World Development, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2001
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Feb 2008
Michael Kevane and Leslie Gray
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and Santa Clara University
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Land tenure, Africa, intensification, degradation, environment, Burkina Faso

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Burkina Faso

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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Dim Delobsom: French Colonialism and Local Response in Upper Volta

African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 4, Summer 2006
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Feb 2008
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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Dim Delobsom, French Colonialism, Upper Volta, Kevane

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Are Investments in Daughters Lower When Daughters Move Away? Evidence from Indonesia

World Development, Vol. 31, No. 6, 2003
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Michael Kevane and David I. Levine
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Virilocality, marriage, son preference, Asia, Indonesia

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Land Tenure and Rental in Western Sudan

Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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The Cost of Getting Books Read in Rural Africa: Estimates from a Survey of Library Use in Burkina Faso

World Libraries, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 17 Feb 2008
Michael Kevane and Alain Joseph Sissao
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Cost, Rural Africa, Burkina Faso, Kevane, Sissao

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Titanium Hoes? Farmers, Wealth and Higher Yields in Western Sudan

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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How Does Reading Change Rural Burkinabe Youth? Effects on Economic Preferences

ASA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 22 Mar 2013
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department

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