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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change

Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023

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The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of structural change

Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2022

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The Indian enigma revisited

von Grafenstein, Liza; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374273

The fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa : the role of structural change

Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023

Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition. We create a unique panel data set combining...

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The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of structural change

Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2022

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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Role of Structural Change

Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023

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The Indian enigma revisited

Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022

This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...

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The Indian Enigma Revisited

Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022

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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

'Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it is among children in India and China, and is larger in...

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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

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Counting missing women - a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021

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Counting missing women : a reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021

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Counting Missing Women – A Reconciliation of the ‘Flow Measure’ and the ‘Stock Measure’

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

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Counting missing women: A reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000392

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Counting Missing Women - A Reconciliation of the 'Flow Measure' and the 'Stock Measure'

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

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Counting Missing Women – A Reconciliation of the 'Flow Measure' and the 'Stock Measure'

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

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Counting missing women - A reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021

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Counting missing women: A reconciliation of the "flow measure" and the "stock measure"

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021

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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...

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Population, Population Density, and Technological Change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2021

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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany : A Search Equilibrium Approach

Launov, Andrey; Wolff, Joachim; Klasen, Stephan - 2021

In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search...

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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity

Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2021

At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the findings from a growing empirical literature that...

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