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Measuring pro-poor progress towards the non-income millennium development goals

Grosse, Melanie; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2006

education). We empirically illustrate the approach for Bolivia and show that it allows a much more detailed assessment of …

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How narrowly should anti-poverty programs be targeted? : simulation evidence from Bolivia and Indonesia

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2016

attach specific weights to true and false positive rates. Based on data from Bolivia and Indonesia, we show that targeting …

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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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Targeting performance and poverty effects of proxy means-tested transfers : trade-offs and challenges

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2015

In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based...

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Accuracy and poverty impacts of proxy means-tested transfers : an empirical assessment for Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2015

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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019

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Operationalizing pro-poor growth, country case study: Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie; Thiele, Rainer; Lay, Jann - 2004

This case study examines to what extent Bolivia has been able to achieve pro-poor growth, what the mechanisms of …

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Measuring pro-poor progress towards the non-income Millennium Development Goals

Grosse, Melanie; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - In: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, (pp. 123-149). 2008

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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

over a longer time period impossible. This is also the situation in Bolivia where there exist urban household surveys and … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

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