In this thesis I examine the welfare and social consequences associated with one economic shock and two policy interventions in Mexico. I use non-experimental approaches that exploit increased data availability as well as in-depth knowledge of the institutional background and show how germane...

Die Abschaffung von Kinderarbeit kann die Entwicklung von Humankapital fördern und ein Mittel für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung der betroffenen Länder darstellen. Kinderarbeit hat jedoch trotz einer deutlichen Verringerung der Armut in Subsahara-Afrika Bestand. Diese Arbeit beantwortet...

This thesis addresses 3 different aspects of food and poverty related problems in developing countries. The first essay presents a new operational concept of transaction costs that firstly allows assessing the magnitude and secondly recognizing the non homogeneity of food products. This is...

The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries used to focus on undernourishment (i.e. lack of calorie consumption) and related outcomes, today, many developing countries face at least a “double burden of malnutrition”...