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Measuring Pro-Poor Growth with Non-Income Indicators
Grosse, Melanie; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2005
In order to track progress on MDG1 and explicitly link growth, inequality, and poverty reduction, several measures of ’pro-poor growth’ have been proposed in the literature and used in applied academic and policy work. These measures, particularly the ones derived from the growth incidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635382
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Fragility and MDG progress : how useful is the fragility concept?
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2010
While it is widely presumed that development progress in so-called fragile states is lagging behind, only very limited empirical analysis exists that investigates to what extent the levels and trends in the MDGs differ significantly between fragile and other developing countries, and between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339418
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Missing men: Differential effects of war and socialism on female labour force participation in Vietnam
Kreibaum, Merle; Klasen, Stephan - 2015
affected by the war. For those cohorts entering working age after the end of the conflict, the effect is still positive but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301332
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Missing men : differential effects of war and socialism on female labour force participation in Vietnam
Kreibaum, Merle; Klasen, Stephan - 2015
affected by the war. For those cohorts entering working age after the end of the conflict, the effect is still positive but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299098
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Battle and beating, water and waste : micro-level impact evaluation in developing and emerging economies
Rieckmann, Johannes - 2014
the behavioural response of people living in spatial vicinity of violent conflict. Getting granular on the impact of such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371937
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Affirmative action and intersectionality at the top : evidence from South Africa
Klasen, Stephan; Minasyan, Anna - 2020
Gender-based board quotas do not always lead to higher share of women in top management positions. We study the consequences of an affirmative action policy that stipulates gender- and race-based targets in top management positions, beyond boards. We focus on the representation of intersectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158813
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … institutions and found that this supported their line of reasoning. We believe there is value-added to consider this debate at the … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954313
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Endogenous Institutional Change and Economic Development: A Micro-Level Analysis of Transmission Channels
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
There is a well-known debate about the role of institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. We … believe there is value-added to consider the institutions hypothesis at the micro level within a country to analyze the exact … the emergence of institutions relevant for agricultural development, thereby incorporating insights from the literatures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329965
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … institutions and found that this supported their line of reasoning. We believe there is value-added to consider this debate at the … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762190
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Endogenous Institutional Change and Economic Development: A Micro-Level Analysis of Transmission Channels
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2009
There is a well-known debate about the role of institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. We … believe there is value-added to consider the institutions hypothesis at the micro level within a country to analyze the exact … the emergence of institutions relevant for agricultural development, thereby incorporating insights from the literatures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476253