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Does female empowerment promote economic development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2011

research is needed to distinguish between alternative theoretical models. -- female empowerment ; gender equality ; development …

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Good governance and good aid allocation

Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group

Jetter, Michael - 2016

are available from natural resources, oil, or foreign development assistance. A one-standard-deviation increase in rents …

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Contests, NGOs and decentralizing aid

Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2005

International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play a potentially important role for nongovernmental...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053135

The effects of development on migration : theoretical issues and new empirical evidence

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999

issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …

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Informality and long-run growth

Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014

path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …

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Sterilization policy with incomplete information: Peru 1995-2000

Rendón, Sílvio - 2020

In this research I investigate what percentage of female sterilizations performed in Peru from 1993 to 2000 were done providing adequate information to their users for a free decision about their adoption. I use data from ENDES/DHS 2000, which contains detailed information about contraceptive...

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Sterilization policy with incomplete information in Peru: does history repeat itself?

Jimènez, Bruno; Rendón, Sílvio - 2020

We contrast the socio-demographic profiles and degree of information received by women that were sterilized with women that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru and compare these profiles with those of the 2000s,...

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Economic foundations of contraceptive transitions : theories and a review of the evidence

Karra, Mahesh; Wilde, Joshua - 2023

We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of …

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Labor market power and development

Armangué-Jubert, Tristany; Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, … - 2023

countries. We structurally estimate a model of oligopsony with free entry for countries at different stages of development and … the top of the development ladder. …

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