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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia
Trommlerová, Sofia Karina; Klasen, Stephan; Lessmann, … - Courant Research Centre PEG - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691513
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330027
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The Indian enigma revisited
von Grafenstein, Liza; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022
This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374273
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Determinants of empowerment in a capability based poverty approach : evidence from the Gambia
Trommlerová, Sofia; Klasen, Stephan; Leßmann, Ortrud - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359640
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The Indian enigma revisited
Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022
This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260039
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432055
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703638
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623658
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518240
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808868