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A Human Development Index by Internal Migration Status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
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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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Missing men: Differential effects of war and socialism on female labour force participation in Vietnam
Kreibaum, Merle; Klasen, Stephan - 2015
We investigate the effect of the Vietnam War and the socialist regime in the Northern part of the country on female labour force participation. We differentiate the effect across birth cohorts, thus comparing immediate and long-term impacts. After presenting a theoretical model implying effects...
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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force participation stagnated at around 18%. Using five large...
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Revisiting the Role of Education for Agricultural Productivity
Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329915
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Identifying synergies and complementarities between MDGs: Results from cluster analysis
Bue, Maria Carmela Lo; Klasen, Stephan - 2012
The MDGs are interlinked: acceleration in one goal is likely to speed up progress in others. Nevertheless, these synergies are not always visible, and may differ across countries. Using bivariate cluster analysis, this paper investigates whether distinct groups of developing countries can be...
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Economic Development, Structural Change and Women's Labor Force Participation: A Reexamination of the Feminization U Hypothesis
Gaddis, Isis; Klasen, Stephan - 2011
A large literature claims that female labor force participation (FLFP) follows a U-shaped trend over the course of economic development. This feminization U hypothesis is motivated by secular patterns of structural change in combination with education and fertility dynamics. We show that...
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What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force participation stagnated at around 18%. Using five large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330026
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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia
Trommlerová, Sofia Karina; Klasen, Stephan; Lessmann, … - 2013
Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced econometric techniques that also correct for endogeneity,...
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UNDP's gender-related measures: Current problems and proposals for fixing them
Klasen, Stephan - 2017
In contrast to UNDP's wildly successful Human Development Index (HDI), UNDP's gender-related indices have had a rather rocky history. To this day, the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) has not produced a measure that has met the requirements of policy-makers, academics and development...
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