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Food price inflation and children's schooling
Grimm, Michael (contributor) - 2008
I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use … enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784648
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Spatial inequalities explained : evidence from Burkina Faso
Gräb, Johannes (contributor); Grimm, Michael (contributor) - 2008
, but to a much smaller extent. -- Spatial inequality ; poverty ; multilevel modeling ; decomposition ; Sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784643
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Spatial inequalities explained : evidence from Burkina Faso
Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - 2008
The literature shows that regional disparities in growth and poverty are often relatively high, that these regional …. -- Spatial inequality ; poverty ; multilevel modeling ; decomposition ; Sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876099
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Food price inflation and children's schooling
Grimm, Michael - 2008
I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use … enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271077
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Spatial inequalities explained: evidence from Burkina Faso
Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - 2008
Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271076
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Spatial inequalities explained: Evidence from Burkina Faso
Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - 2008
The literature shows that regional disparities in growth and poverty are often relatively high, that these regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281821
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Does household income matter for children's schooling? : evidence for rural sub-Saharan Africa
Grimm, Michael - In: Economics of education review 30 (2011) 4, pp. 740-754
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009297077
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Burkina Faso : shipping around the Malthusian trap
Grimm, Michael; Wetta, Claude; Nikiema, Aude - 2014
transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410776
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An assessment of the effects of the 2002 food crisis on children's health in Malawi
Hartwig, Renate; Grimm, Michael - In: Journal of African economies 21 (2012) 1, pp. 124-165
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509672
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An assessment of the effects of the 2002 food crisis on children's health in Malawi
Hartwig, Renate; Grimm, Michael - 2009
the health status of children. Obviously, quantifying the health impact of such a crisis is a serious task given the lack …-in-difference estimator is used to quantify the impact of the food crisis on the health status of children. The findings suggest that at least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258038