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Essays in empirical development and education economics
Lange, Simon - 2015
This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...
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Measuring pro-poor progress towards the non-income millennium development goals
Grosse, Melanie (contributor); Harttgen, Kenneth (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003329832
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964886
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894075
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Essays on comparing poverty measures, gender differences in subjective well-being, food Insecurity and malnutrition in Pakistan
Mahmood, Tahir - 2018
Diese Dissertation enthält vier Essays über die Messung und Determinanten von Armut, Gender Gap, Ernährungsunsicherheit …This dissertation includes four essays on the measurement and determinants of poverty, gender gap, food insecurity and … compares objective income poverty to a subjective measure where household placed themselves on a ten-step income scale. It …
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The complementarities of child health achievements in developing countries
Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2015
Diese Dissertation basiert auf einer auf den Menschen bezogenen, multidimensionalen Betrachtung von Entwicklung. Sie soll empirisch Übereinstimmungen und Determinanten der Gesundheit von Kindern in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen analysieren. Der erste Essay – mit verfasst von...
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How the new international goal for child mortality is unfair to sub-Saharan Africa (again)
Lange, Simon; Klasen, Stephan - 2016
The post-2015 development includes level-end goals for both under-five and neonatal mortality to be obtained by 2030: no more than 25 and 12 deaths per 1,000 births, respectively. Recent accelerations in the rate of reduction in under-five mortality have been cited as a cause for optimism. In...
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The costs of missing the millennium development goal on gender equity
Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2003
At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the findings from a growing empirical literature that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440932
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Fragility and MDG progress : how useful is the fragility concept?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2010
While it is widely presumed that development progress in so-called fragile states is lagging behind, only very limited empirical analysis exists that investigates to what extent the levels and trends in the MDGs differ significantly between fragile and other developing countries, and between...
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