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

Klasen, Stephan - 2016

are guided by formal institutions as well as informal norms and values. As this survey shows, there is great regional … heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal social institutions. The literature on long‐term drivers of gender gaps …, political and economic empowerment, access to resources, and social institutions on development outcomes. The paper then shows …

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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,...

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Gender inequality in social Institutions and gendered development outcomes

Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Klasen, Stephan; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 45 (2013), pp. 252-268

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New measures of gender inequality : the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)and its subindices

Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009 - This version: July 23, 2009

In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its five subindices Family code, Civil … liberties, Physical integrity, Son Preference and Ownership rights using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and …-lasting social institutions which are mirrored by societal practices and legal norms that might produce gender inequalities. The …

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The institutional basis of gender inequality : the social institutions and gender index (SIGI)

Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Klasen, Stephan; … - In: Feminist economics 20 (2014) 2, pp. 29-64

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Langfristige Entwicklung: Geografie, Institutionen und Wirtschaftspolitik

Klasen, Stephan; Misselhorn, Mark - In: Das Wirtschaftsstudium : wisu ; Zeitschrift für … 39 (2010) 3, pp. 379-384

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Does gender inequality reduce growth and development? : Evidence from cross-country regressions

Klasen, Stephan - 2000

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Why we don't see poverty convergence : the role of macroeconomic volatility

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Klasen, Stephan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2013

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita income levels and the close linkage between growth and...

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Gender institutions and economic development

Klasen, Stephan - In: The handbook of economic development and institutions, (pp. 520-553). 2020

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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 the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument for and a consequence of economic development. The first three...

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