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Essays in empirical development and education economics

Lange, Simon - 2015

This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...

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The impact of livestock ownership on solar home system adoption in the northern and western regions of rural Tanzania

Klasen, Stephan; Mbegalo, Tukae - 2016

Livestock has been hypothesized to be one of the major buffer stocks for consumption smoothing in rural areas of … mainland rural Tanzania. Results indicate that solar adoption is higher for livestock owners than non-livestock owners and that … middle-expenditure levels. We argue that poor families tend to keep small livestock, which may not generate enough income for …

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The nexus between agricultural productivity, poverty, and social services provision in Sub-Saharan Africa : an empirical analysis

Reimers, Malte - 2014

This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income source for the majority of the global poor and it will hence have to play a...

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The impact of livestock ownership on solar home system adoption in the northern and western regions of rural Tanzania

Klasen, Stephan; Mbegalo, Tukae - 2016

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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in multi-dimensional poverty indices?

Klasen, Stephan; Lahoti, Rahul - 2016

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias...

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Gender and Multidimensional Poverty in Nicaragua : An Individual-Based Approach

Espinoza-Delgado, José - 2018

Most existing multidimensional poverty measures use the household as the unit of analysis so that the multidimensional poverty condition of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty condition of all its members. For this reason, household-based poverty measures ignore the...

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Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua : an individual-based approach

Espinoza-Delgado, José; Klasen, Stephan - 2017

Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all individuals in the household. This assumption,...

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How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality in Multi-Dimensional Poverty Indices?

Klasen, Stephan - 2016

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias depends on how these...

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Why we don't see poverty convergence : the role of macroeconomic volatility

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Klasen, Stephan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2013

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita income levels and the close linkage between growth and...

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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia

Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009

In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This...

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