necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …

differences in women’s transition to first marriage. The model specification accounts for both spatial and temporal changes in … the socio-economic context of transition to marriage. We found ethnic-specific responses on women’s marriage timing to …

years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are …Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … additional schooling reduces the probability of an arranged marriage by about 14 percentage points for an individual with eight …

Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu …

paper relates education measures to economic development. The following three papers contribute to the understanding of …This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education … human capital for regional development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The findings suggest a stronger correlation of development …

development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among …