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Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...
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the sphere of poverty measurement, the fourth essay is on the topic of trade and development. In recent years, the issue … of international poverty measurement gained in importance in public perception as poverty reduction was the first and … probably most prominent indicator of the MDGs and now SDGs. Since 1990, the World Bank has produced international poverty …
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Attitudes towards risk and time, poverty, risk management, shocks, Southeast Asia, West Africa. - Armut, Risiko- und …
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