Following the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Central America in 1838, Costa Rica and Honduras were highly underdeveloped politically and economically, while at the same time lacking a strong conservative presence found in the more politically established and economically…
This Palgrave Pivot analyzes how six countries in Central America - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama - connected to and through computer networks such as UUCP, BITNET and the Internet from the 80s to the year 2000. It argues that this story can …
This dissertation explores how Pentecostal Christians in the small town of Copán Ruinas, Honduras strive to remake both individual subjectivities and the national body as part of a drive towards development and modernization. In the process, these Spirit-filled Christians, which…
This dissertation contains three essays on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and different types of public goods. In the first essay, I study how changes in transport infrastructure affect the location decisions of firms by examining how manu…
Le jardin de case traditionnel, système agroforestier d'utilisation du sol, a été utilisé pendant des siècles en milieu tropical comme source de produits alimentaires tant dans les zones urbaines que dans les campagnes. En milieu rural, il fait partie du paysage. Il constitue un…
This dissertation consists of three essays which examine household decisions regarding education in a developing country. The theme underlying each of the three essays is the importance of school quality. The first essay uses a data set from Honduras to study the determinants of…