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Supermarket food purchases and child nutritional outcomes in Kenya
Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Demmler, Kathrin M.; Klasen, … - 2018
. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental …. Supermarkets do not seem to be a driver of childhood obesity in Kenya. The positive effects of supermarkets on child nutrition are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853671
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Nutrition effects of the supermarket revolution on urban consumers and smallholder farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I. M.; Chege, Christine … - 2014
understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430779
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Direct simultaneous inference in additive models and its application to model undernutrition
Wiesenfarth, Manuel; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Klasen, Stephan - 2011 - First Version December 2010, revised July 2011
This article proposes a simple and fast approach to build simultaneous confi dence bands and perform specification tests for smooth curves in additive models. The method allows for handling of spatially heterogeneous functions and its derivatives as well as heteroscedasticity in the data. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342897
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Supermarkets and the nutrition transition in Kenya
Rischke, Ramona; Chege Kimenju, Simon; Qaim, Matin; … - 2014
using cross-sectional household survey data collected in Kenya in 2012. In order to establish causality, our sample was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239932
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The nutritional status of elites in India, Kenya and Zambia : an appropiate guide for developing reference standards for undernutrition
Klasen, Stephan; Moradi, Alexander - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001745515
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Gender inequality and development strategies : lessons from past and policy issues for the future
Klasen, Stephan - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000881174
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Gender inequality and survival : excess female mortality past and present
Klasen, Stephan - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000916174
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Death and gender in Victorian England and Wales : comparisons with contemporary developing countries
McNay, Kirsty; Humphries, Jane; Klasen, Stephan - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000671943
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A flow measure of missing women by age and disease
Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China … of Economic Studies, Anderson and Ray (AR) develop a new "flow" measure of missing women in developing countries by … comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011889843
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A turning point in gender bias in mortality? : an update on the number of "missing women"
Klasen, Stephan; Wink, Claudia - 2001
More than 10 years ago, Amartya Sen estimated than some 100 million women are 'missing' as a result of excess female … exacting on women in these parts of the world. All these estimates 'missing women' were based on demographic information of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440975