Essays in empirical development and education economics

vorgelegt von Simon Lange

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 development goals should be adopted in the future. The main contribution of this paper is to assess whether the newly proposed child mortality goal, which calls for a reduction in the child mortality rate to a minimum level of 20 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2030, is feasible. We use dynamic panel ...

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Lange, Simon
Other Persons:	Klasen, Stephan (degree supervisor) ; Klasen, Stephan (Reviewer) ; Kneib, Thomas (Reviewer) ; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada (Reviewer)
Subject:	MDGs \| SDGs \| under-five mortality \| Africa \| targeting \| transfers \| social assistance \| proxy means tests \| poverty \| ROC-analysis \| Latin America \| Bolivia \| precautionary saving \| livestock \| coping strategies \| price risk \| WASAT \| tracking \| educational institutions \| educational inequality \| equality of opportunity \| intergenerational mobility \| UN-Entwicklungsziele \| UN development goals \| Kindersterblichkeit \| Child mortality \| Afrika \| Öffentliche Sozialleistungen \| Social security benefits \| Grundbedürfnisse \| Basic needs \| Armut \| Poverty \| Bolivien \| Sparen \| Savings \| Viehhandel \| Livestock trade \| Nutztiere \| Livestock \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries \| Lateinamerika

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (VIII, 129 S.) graph. Darst.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Hochschulschrift ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Thesis
Language:	English
Thesis:	Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2015
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzung: PDF Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:11858/00-1735-0000-0023-9620-A [Handle]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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