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Reforming the Gender-Related Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) : some specific proposals
Klasen, Stephan; Schüler, Dana - 2009
In 2005 and 2006, the Human Development Report Office undertook a review of UNDP's gender-related indicators, particularly the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). Background papers as well as the results of the process were published in 2006 (e.g....
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Essays on women's empowerment in developing countries
Lenze, Jana - 2019
Women’s empowerment has been identified as a prerequisite for poverty reduction. In addition to driving overall economic growth, women’s empowerment has been found to have beneficial effects on fertility rates, child health and education outcomes, as well as community development. This...
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A turning point in gender bias in mortality? : an update on the number of "missing women"
Klasen, Stephan; Wink, Claudia - 2001
mortality in parts of the developing world, most notably South Asia, China, West Asia, and parts of North Africa (Sen, 1989; Sen … exacting on women in these parts of the world. All these estimates 'missing women' were based on demographic information of the … Population Division of the sex ratio in the world and in the regions where males outnumber females. These estimates suggest that …
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Warum fehlen 100 Millionen Frauen auf der Welt? : Eine ökonomische Analyse
Klasen, Stephan - In: Femina oeconomica, (pp. 181-197). 2002
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Economics of gender inequality : a collection of Stephan Klasen's work in honor of his academic life
Klasen, Stephan - 2020
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A Turning Point in Gender Bias in Mortality? An Update on the Number of 'Missing Women'
Klasen, Stephan; Wink, Claudia - 2001
developing world by defining the term "missing women" and estimating its number. In this paper we provide an update on the number …
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A turning point in gender bias in mortality? : An update on the number of "missing women"
Klasen, Stephan; Wink, Claudia - 2001
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Warum fehlen 100 Millionen Frauen auf der Welt: Fakten, Trends, Determinanten und Kontroversen
Klasen, Stephan - In: Armut und Gesundheit : öffentliche Ringvorlesung …, (pp. 43-64). 2016
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An application of partial least squares to the construction of the Social Institutions and Gender index (SIGI) and the Corruption Perception Index (CPI)
Yoon, Jisu; Klasen, Stephan - 2015
In this paper the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is constructed with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Partial Least Squares (PLS). Using the SIGI, we test the effects of social institutions related to gender inequality on several development outcomes, such as female education,...
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Educational gender gaps and economic growth : a systematic review and meta-regression analysis
Minasyan, Anna; Zenker, Juliane; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2018
We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the impact of gender inequality in education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies using male and female education as separate covariates...
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