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Is de-carbonized development possible? : household emissions and renewable energy in developing countries
Seriño, Moises Neil V. - 2014
. Particularly, we investigate household emissions and the potential diffusion of renewable energy in developing countries. This … study contributes to the literature in four main points. First, it investigates household carbon emissions from a developing …
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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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Delayed household formation as a development issue
Klasen, Stephan - In: Development and the next generation : Berlin workshop …, (pp. 117-124). 2007
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A human development index at the household level
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
information and there exists no HDI at the household level. We provide a method for proxying the HDI at the household level. This … allows the analysis of the HDI by any kind of population subgroups and by household socioeconomic characteristics as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348169
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Essays on gender, migration, and development
Santos Silva, Manuel Pedro Duarte - 2018
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument for and a consequence of economic development. The first three...
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Labor savings in agriculture and inequality at different spatial scales : the expansion of oil palm in Indonesia
Kubitza, Christoph; Dib, Jonida Bou; Kopp, Thomas; … - 2019
Abstract: Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses representative data at local and national scales to analyze labor...
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Advances and applications of experimental measures to test behavioral saving theories and a method to increase efficiency in binary and multiple treatment assignment
Schneider, Sebastian O. - 2017
This dissertation presents four independent papers that advance experimental methods and test theories on saving using experimentally elicited characteristics. The first two papers test two behavioral theories on precautionary saving based on the characteristics loss aversion and prudence by...
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A feminization of vulnerability? : female headship, poverty, and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 71 (2015), pp. 36-53
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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in multi-dimensional poverty indices?
Klasen, Stephan; Lahoti, Rahul - 2016
household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … priori. We then use data from the 2012 Indian Human Development Survey to create a standard household-based MPIs closely … higher when using the household-based measure. Similarly, the age differentials in poverty are much larger using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440477
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Inequality in emissions : evidence from Indonesian household
Irfany, Mohammad Iqbal; Klasen, Stephan - In: Environmental economics and policy studies 18 (2016) 4, pp. 459-483
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