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Essays on gender, migration, and development

Santos Silva, Manuel Pedro Duarte - 2018

This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since … consequence of economic development. The first three chapters of this thesis revolve around two fundamental questions. What are … the consequences of gender inequality for economic development? (Chapter 1.) And what are its causes—i.e., why do we …

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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

We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...

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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

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Advances and applications of experimental measures to test behavioral saving theories and a method to increase efficiency in binary and multiple treatment assignment

Schneider, Sebastian O. - 2017

This dissertation presents four independent papers that advance experimental methods and test theories on saving using experimentally elicited characteristics. The first two papers test two behavioral theories on precautionary saving based on the characteristics loss aversion and prudence by...

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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 …

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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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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

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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

economic development. This feminization U hypothesis is motivated by secular patterns of structural change in combination with …

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Gender, institutions, and economic development : findings and open research and policy issues

Klasen, Stephan - 2016

equity but overall development outcomes such as economic growth and reductions in mortality. This is best documented in the …, political and economic empowerment, access to resources, and social institutions on development outcomes. The paper then shows … better understanding the linkages between institutions and their change, gender inequality, and economic development. …

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Economic growth and child undernutrition in Africa

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012

Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less and rather inconsistently across the continent. We examine to what extent there is an empirical linkage between income growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We...

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