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Oil palm expansion among Indonesian smallholders : adoption, welfare implications and agronomic challenges
Euler, Michael - 2015
to the rising demand for vegetable oils and biofuels, favorable government policies in producer countries, as well as oil …
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Benefits trickling away : the health impact of extending access to piped water and sanitation in urban Yemen
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Meier, Kristina; … - 2012
This article investigates the impact of piped water supply and sanitation on health outcomes in urban Yemen using a combination of quasi-experimental methods and results from microbiological water tests. Variations in project roll-out allow separate identification of water and sanitation...
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Battle and beating, water and waste : micro-level impact evaluation in developing and emerging economies
Rieckmann, Johannes - 2014
Die Dissertation mit dem Titel “Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies” beinhaltet die Ergebnisse ökonometrischer Wirkungsevaluierungen, die innerhalb zwei verschiedener Themengebieten des täglichen Lebens in Entwicklungs-...
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The roots of female emancipation : from perennial cool water via pre-industrial late marriages to postindustrial gender equality
Santos Silva, Manuel; Alexander, Amy C.; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2017 - This version: November 2017
Reviewing the burgeoning literature on the deep historic roots of gender inequality, we theorize and provide evidence for an overlooked trajectory that (1) originates in a climatic configuration called the "Cool Water" (CW-) condition, from where the trajectory leads to (2) late female marriages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746845
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Impact evaluation report : water supply and sanitation in provincial towns in Yemen
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Meier, Kristina; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356539
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The roots of female emancipation : initializing role of Cool Water
Santos Silva, Manuel; Alexander, Amy C.; Klasen, Stephan; … - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 51 (2023) 1, pp. 133-159
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Intrahousehold health care financing strategy and the gender gap: Empirical evidence from India
Asfaw, Abay; Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - 2008
The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281810
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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012
In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282183
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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in multi-dimensional poverty indices?
Klasen, Stephan; Lahoti, Rahul - 2016
Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show that the direction of the bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440477
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Employment transitions of women in India : a panel analysis
Sarkar, Sudipa; Sahoo, Soham; Klasen, Stephan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 115 (2019), pp. 291-309
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