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The fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa : the role of structural change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023
Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition. We create a unique panel data set combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228925
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Missing women : age and disease ; a correction
Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2013
In a recent paper in the Review of Economic Studies, Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray (Anderson and Ray, 2010) develop and apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries. Contrary to the existing literature, they find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359093
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How the new international goal for child mortality is unfair to sub-Saharan Africa (again)
Lange, Simon; Klasen, Stephan - 2016
The post-2015 development includes level-end goals for both under-five and neonatal mortality to be obtained by 2030: no more than 25 and 12 deaths per 1,000 births, respectively. Recent accelerations in the rate of reduction in under-five mortality have been cited as a cause for optimism. In...
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The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of structural change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2022
Despite relatively sustained economic growth in at least parts of Sub-Saharan Africa over the past twenty years, the fertility transition has not much advanced in most countries in that region. We explore whether the lack of structural change can explain this slow transition. For this end, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173728
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Issues and challenges in measuring national income, wealth, poverty, and inequality in sub-Saharan African countries : an introduction
Klasen, Stephan; Blades, Derek W. - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 59 (2013), pp. 1-8
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A flow measure of missing women by age and disease
Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China, and mostly related to sex-selective abortions and post-birth neglect of female children. In a recent paper in the Review of Economic Studies, Anderson and Ray (AR) develop a new...
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How the new international goal for child mortality is unfair to Sub-Saharan Africa (again)
Lange, Simon; Klasen, Stephan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 90 (2017), pp. 128-146
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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Role of Structural Change
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023
Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition. We create a unique panel data set combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254441
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Geo-Additive Models of Childhood Undernutrition in Three Sub-Saharan African Countries
Kandala, Ngianga B.; Fahrmeir, Ludwig; Klasen, Stephan - 2002
We investigate the geographical and socioeconomic determinants of childhood undernutrition in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia, three neighboring countries in Southern Africa using the 1992 Demographic and Health Surveys. We estimate models of undernutrition jointly for the three countries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112744
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518240