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Child development and human capital formation : evidence from randomized interventions and gender inequality

Ebert, Cara - 2019

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Poverty, social mobility, and the middle class : the case of South Africa

Schotte, Simone - 2018

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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Essays on women's empowerment in developing countries

Banerjee, Debosree - 2014

’s empowerment. In the second and third essay discuss aspects of participatory development in India in areas ranging from community …

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Composite indices based on partial least squares

Yoon, Jisu; Klasen, Stephan; Dreher, Axel; Krivobokova, … - 2015

In this paper, we compare Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Squares (PLS) methods to generate weights for composite indices. In this context we also consider various treatments of non-metric variables when constructing such composite indices. Using simulation studies we find...

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Partial least squares and principal component analysis with non-metric variables for composite indices

Yoon, Jisu - 2015

Ein zusammengesetzter Index ist eine aggregierte Variable, die aus individuellen Indikatoren und Gewichten besteht, wobei die Gewichte die relative Wichtigkeit jedes Indikators darstellen. Zusammengesetzte Indizes werden oft benutzt um latente Phänomene zu schreiben oder komplexe Informationen...

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A contribution to the empirics of development and globalization

Lohmann, Steffen - 2015

of globalization on human development. Given that the concept of globalization reflects a multitude of economic and … the channels through which less researched facets of globalization affect human lives. Specifically, the first essay … scrutinizes the role of informational globalization, characterized by the exchange of information. It focuses on the s... …

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The effect of bigger human bodies on future global calorie requirements

Depenbusch, Lutz; Klasen, Stephan - 2017

Global food demand will see a rapid increase over the coming decades. Existing studies on future calorie demand consider mainly population growth and rising incomes. We add to the literature by estimating the effect of increases in human weight caused by rising BMI and height on future calorie...

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