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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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Educational gender gaps and economic growth : a systematic review and meta-regression analysis
Minasyan, Anna; Zenker, Juliane; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2018
We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the impact of gender inequality in education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies using male and female education as separate covariates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890803
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An African growth miracle? : or: what do asset indices tell us about trends in economic performance?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012 - This version: February 13, 2012
Using changes in the possession of household assets over the past 20 years, several recent papers have argued that economic performance in Arica was substantially better than suggested by national income data and income poverty statistics, who suffer from well-known weaknesses. We scrutinize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357536
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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/10009533351
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Perspectives on the economic and human development of India and China : on the occasion of the award of an Honorary Doctorate in Economics of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen...
Sen, Amartya (contributor); Sen, Amartya (honouree);  … - 2006
development economics. On the occasion of the award, Amartya Sen shared his thoughts on the economic development of India and … publication of Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen on comparative human development in India and China. This publication should greatly … enrich the current debate on the economic development of India and China. Instead of viewing economic development in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003393440
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan - 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/10013109425
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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/10011441664
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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 - 2016
Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the household and thus 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 depends on how these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997526
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Revisiting the Role of Education for Agricultural Productivity
Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2011
While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross‐country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364972