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Essays in development economics : democracy and education

Idzalika, Rajius - 2016

Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu … variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et al. (2008), some support of causality is found particularly when … explaining heteroscedasticity. We also find democracy is a bimodal variable and approximate the distribution using two separate …

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Gender inequality and survival : excess female mortality past and present

Klasen, Stephan - 1994

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Aid, politics, culture, and growth

Minasyan, Anna - 2015

Political misalignment and greater ideological distance between donor and recipient governments may render foreign aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and eroding trust. In addition, development aid from the West may lead to adverse growth effects in the global South due to the...

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The complementarities of child health achievements in developing countries

Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2015

Diese Dissertation basiert auf einer auf den Menschen bezogenen, multidimensionalen Betrachtung von Entwicklung. Sie soll empirisch Übereinstimmungen und Determinanten der Gesundheit von Kindern in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen analysieren. Der erste Essay – mit verfasst von...

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Essays on international migration and informal markets in developing countries

Böhme, Marcus - 2013

This thesis looks at two topics that have been prominent on the development agenda for more than five decades: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their development potential, a clear understanding of the mechanisms at...

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Trade and uncertainty

Johannsen, Florian - 2014

The five chapters of this dissertation deal with the topic of trade under different kinds of uncertainty. In the first chapter, the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on exports of European countries is investigated with a special focus on short-term effects, sectoral differences and the impact...

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