of the global poor and it will hence have to play a key role in the fight against global poverty. The first essay (co …-authored by Stephan Klasen) aims to solve a micro-macro paradox on the role of education for agricultural productivity. From a …

education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …

study is particularly of relevance for policies that aim to alleviate poverty and improve child human capital accumulation …

This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …