Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht, inwiefern Bildung und Migration Kanäle zur Überwindung von Armut und sozialer Ungleichheit in Lateinamerika und Subsahara-Afrika darstellen können. Kapitel 2 untersucht die Auswirkungen einer Verlängerung der täglichen Schulzeit auf Einschulungsraten...

Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...

Interstate conflicts are complex and often have a multitude of causes. These factors can be social, economic, or cultural. One social factor receiving little attention in the literature is international migration. This paper uses climate shocks as a driver of emigration, to study the causal...

The Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) has been widely used to analyze climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. The storylines behind these scenarios outline alternative development pathways, which have been the base for climate research and other studies at global,...