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Essays on food security and the nutrition transition in developing countries

Rischke, Ramona - 2014

The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries used to focus on undernourishment (i.e. lack of calorie consumption) and related outcomes, today, many developing countries face at least a “double burden of malnutrition”...

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Large–scale land acquisitions in sub–Saharan Africa

Nolte, Kerstin - 2014

This dissertation contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the rising global phenomenon of investments in land through in–depth insights obtained from a cross–country study as well as from three case–studies based in sub–Saharan Africa. Chapter 2 contributes to the...

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Supermarkets and the nutrition transition in Kenya

Rischke, Ramona; Chege Kimenju, Simon; Qaim, Matin; … - 2014

using cross-sectional household survey data collected in Kenya in 2012. In order to establish causality, our sample was …

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Nutrition effects of the supermarket revolution on urban consumers and smallholder farmers in Kenya

Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Chege, Christine … - 2014

understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets …

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Direct simultaneous inference in additive models and its application to model undernutrition

Wiesenfarth, Manuel; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Klasen, Stephan - 2011 - First Version December 2010, revised July 2011

This article proposes a simple and fast approach to build simultaneous confi dence bands and perform specification tests for smooth curves in additive models. The method allows for handling of spatially heterogeneous functions and its derivatives as well as heteroscedasticity in the data. It is...

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Supermarket food purchases and child nutritional outcomes in Kenya

Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Demmler, Kathrin M.; Klasen, … - 2018

. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental …. Supermarkets do not seem to be a driver of childhood obesity in Kenya. The positive effects of supermarkets on child nutrition are …

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Missing women : some recent controversies on levels and trends in gender bias in mortality

Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008

This paper discusses two recent controversies surrounding levels and trends in the number of "missing women" in the … that the claim that a substantial portion of "missing women" is due to higher sex ratios at birth linked to hepatitis B …. -- Missing women ; fertility decline ; Hepatitis B ; sex-selective abortions ; gender bias in mortality …

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Intra-household gender disparities in children's medical care before death in India

Asfaw, Abay (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor); … - 2007

"The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in receipt of medical attention can be one of the most...

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What about the women? : female headship, poverty and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam

Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - 2010 - Preliminary and incomplete draft, August 2010

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Intrahousehold health care financing strategy and the gender gap : empirical evidence from India

Asfaw, Abay; Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - 2008

The "missing women" dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …

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