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The roots of female emancipation: From perennial cool water via pre-industrial late marriages to postindustrial gender equality

Santos Silva, Manuel; Alexander, Amy C.; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2017

Reviewing the burgeoning literature on the deep historic roots of gender inequality, we theorize and provide evidence for an overlooked trajectory that (1) originates in a climatic configuration called the "Cool Water" (CW-) condition, from where the trajectory leads to (2) late female marriages...

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Intrahousehold allocations by mothers to children: The role of observability

Banerjee, Debosree; Klasen, Stephan - 2018

In this article we analyse the impact of spousal preference expectations on mothers' willingness to invest in children's food/nutrition and health/medical expenses. We use a survey conducted in Karnataka, South India, where women with children were asked to state their investment preference in...

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The consumption-based carbon footprint of households in Sulawesi, Jambi and Indonesia as a whole in 2013

Irfany, Mohammad Iqbal; Klasen, Stephan; Yusuf, Rezky … - 2015

This study analyzes the consumption-based carbon footprint of households in Sulawesi, Jambi and Indonesia as a whole. Combining the use of the GTAP data for emission intensities, of input-output tables for inter-industry linkages with household expenditure categories, we then estimate and...

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Revisiting the Role of Education for Agricultural Productivity

Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...

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Opportunities and constraints in agriculture: A gendered analysis of cocoa production in Southern Cameroon

Kumase, Wokia-azi N.; Bisseleua, Herve; Klasen, Stephan - 2010

In this paper we examine gender differences in cocoa production in Cameroon using a survey of about 1000 cocoa producers in Southern Cameroon. We find that women farmers have access to land (of similar size to men), but through different mechanisms than men. They are strongly disadvantaged when...

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Migration and deforestation in Indonesia

Darmawan, Rivayani; Klasen, Stephan; Nuryartono, Nunung - 2015

small amount focuses on the relationship between migration and deforestation. Migration may contribute to the forest cover … investigates the relationship between recent in-migration and deforestation in Indonesia. By combining available population census … data with the satellite image data MODIS, we find a significant positive relationship between migration and deforestation …

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Endogenous Institutional Change and Economic Development: A Micro-Level Analysis of Transmission Channels

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2009

-rural migration flows to geographically well-endowed regions which in turn give rise to migration-induced land scarcity. Land scarcity …

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