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The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … Consumption and Income Project (GCIP). They describe the construction of the consumption and income datasets and the evolution of … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …
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The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...
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Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al. (2008) with a novel regression specification utilizing a zero-one-inflated beta distribution for the response variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et...
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empirical analyses in the broad spectrum of economic inequality, that is, inequality in wages and income. What are th... …
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Low and middle income countries are responsible for more than two thirds of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions … variable for both GHG emissions and poverty alleviation, developing countries face a difficult but critical trade-off with …
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Messung menschlicher Armut und Entwicklung gibt es seit den späten 70er Jahren zunehmendes Interesse an der Ökonomie des …Concurrent to the widespread use of traditional income or consumption based measures for determining human development …
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