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Microeconomic analyses of the causes and consequences of political violence
Kreibaum, Merle - 2015
Violent conflict is common among the poorest countries and clearly one of the most important barriers to growth, destroying physical, human, and social capital, often in the long run. At the same time, it is a development `trap' that is not easy to escape from as poverty has also been found to...
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Three essays on Indonesian political economy : elite capture, corruption, and female policy makers
Darmawan, Rivayani - 2014
Zusammenfassung Die drei Essays dieser Dissertation leisten einen Beitrag zum Verständnis der politischen Ökonomie Indonesiens in Zeiten der Dezentralisierung. Vor dem Hintergrund des "Urban Poverty Project 2" (UPP2), einem kommunalen Entwicklungsprojekt in Indonesien, untersucht der erste...
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Essays on development and behavior economics : an impact evaluation of the “Bolsa Família” - conditional cash transfer on education and the effect of leadership identity on group c...
Schaffland, Elke Rosemarie - 2014
The dissertation at hand is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 presents an impact evaluation of a widely spread conditional cash transfer in Brazil called Bolsa Família. We analyze the impacts of the program on two educational outcomes: enrollment and attendance. In our analysis we consider...
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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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Gender, institutions, and economic development : findings and open research and policy issues
Klasen, Stephan - 2016
Gender relations are a key institution governing important aspects of production and reproduction of societies. They … heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal social institutions. The literature on long‐term drivers of gender gaps … suggests that those gender gaps are related to long‐standing and regularly reproduced gender norms and values related to …
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Drivers of gendered sectoral and occupational segregation in developing countries
Borrowman, Mary; Klasen, Stephan - In: Feminist economics 26 (2020) 2, pp. 62-94
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Drivers of gendered sectoral and occupational segregation in developing countries
Borrowman, Mary; Klasen, Stephan - 2017
Occupational and sectoral segregation by gender is remarkably persistent across space and time and is a major … contributor to gender wage gaps. We investigate the determinants of one-digit occupational and sectoral segregation in developing …
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The impact of affirmative action on the gendered : occupational segregation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Minasyan, Anna - 2017
This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …
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The impact of affirmative action on the gendered : occupational segregation in South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Minasyan, Anna - 2018 - Updated version: March 2018
This paper studies the impact of an affirmative action policy on occupational segregation by gender in South Africa. We …
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Gender segregation in education and its implications for labour market outcomes : evidence from India
Sahoo, Soham; Klasen, Stephan - 2018
This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of … longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of … humanities. This gender disparity is not driven by gender specific differences in mathematical ability, as the gap remains large …
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