Browsing Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften by Advisor & Referee "Vollmer, Sebastian Prof. Dr."
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Essays in quantitative economics: Improvements in measurements and macroeconomic analysis
(2023-12-22)This thesis highlights opportunities and challenges related to the use of data in empirical economics. The interpretation of data is the primary tool we as economists have at our disposal to calibrate our models and test ... -
Well-Being and Shocks: Challenges in Poverty Measurement and Analysis
(2023-11-17)Goal 1 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for a world free of poverty in 2030. Over the last decades, the world has made much progress in reducing poverty. However, COVID-19 has shown that these gains can be reversed ... -
Addressing barriers to human capital accumulation: Essays in development and health economics
(2023-11-17)While health and education, jointly referred to as human capital, are important ends in themselves, they are also important drivers of poverty alleviation and economic growth. Understanding and overcoming the barriers that ... -
Essays in Development Economics and Global Health
(2023-10-02)The chapters in this dissertation provide insights into different aspects of the SDG research agenda. The chapters also both incorporate publicly available secondary data sources as well as newly collected survey data. ... -
Essays in Development and Health Economics
(2023-03-06)This dissertation consists of four essays, which are all based on primary data. In the first essay, we describe and attempt to explain the state and functionality of pre-schools (Anganwadi Centres) in Bihar, India. We find ... -
Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(2023-01-26)The objective of this dissertation is to contribute to evidence on access to care for cardiovascular disease (CVD) – the most common cause of death globally – by a) describing the state of hypercholesterolemia care in a ... -
Essays on Health and Development: Evidence from Indonesia and South Africa
(2022-10-18)The global burden of disease changed substantially over the past decades. The burden stemming from non-communicable diseases has been rising, particularly in middle-oncome countries, and zoonotic pandemics such as HIV/AIDS ... -
Four Essays on Health and Nutrition of Indian Women and Children
(2022-10-05)This cumulative doctoral thesis consists of four research manuscripts (hereafter essays). Essay 1: Using a nationally representative dataset for India, this study sets up a quasi-experimental study design – instrumental ... -
Determinants of Child Development in India
(2021-03-29)To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 years in low-income and middle-income countries are likely not to attain their full development potential. ... -
Equality of Pays and Wage Behaviours: Micro and Macro Perspectives of Indonesia Labour Market
(2020-03-09)This dissertation analyses labour market imperfections from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives, and incorporates empirical examinations of equality of pays and wage behaviours drawing on the Indonesian labour ... -
Causality, Prediction, and Replicability in Applied Statistics: Advanced Models and Practices
(2019-07-11)Statistical tools to analyze research data are widely applied in many scientific disciplines and the need for adequate statistical models and sound statistical analyses is apparent. This thesis addresses limitations in ... -
Essays on Women and Historically Disadvantaged Social Groups, and Indian Development Policy
(2019-06-12)The thesis attempts to evaluate three Indian development policies aimed at promoting women and historically disadvantaged social groups. These policies are: job reservation for women in public workfare programs; women's ... -
Floods in Southeast Asia: A Household Welfare Priority
(2019-05-29)The dissertation focuses on floods in Vietnam and Thailand using a long-time measurement of household welfare, combined with an external flood indicator, which is a measure of local inundation by using satellite floodwater ... -
Local financial development and economic growth in Vietnam
(2019-05-09)The following thesis accumulates four self-contained studies which analyse the relationship between local financial development and economic growth in Vietnam. Local financial development is measured at different levels ... -
Essays on Comparing Poverty Measures, Gender Differences in Subjective Well-being, Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in Pakistan
(2018-08-09)This dissertation includes four essays on the measurement and determinants of poverty, gender gap, food insecurity and malnutrition in Pakistan. All papers use current methods and approaches of the relevant literature and ... -
Credit Access, Networks, Institutions and Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Insights from Vietnam
(2018-03-01)Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in developing and transition economies. Recently, more attention has been paid to the role of networks and institutions in improving firm performance. By using ... -
Nutrition and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Evaluation of Three Micronutrient Interventions
(2017-07-12)Adequate nutrition constitutes a cornerstone of human capital formation. Only a well-nourished and healthy child will attend school regularly, react properly to the stimuli from its environment and learn sufficiently to ... -
Microenterprise Performance and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico
(2017-07-12)Microenterprises dominate the economic landscape in Mexico and are the main employment and income providers of people that are vulnerable to poverty. The overreaching research question of this thesis is how microenterprise ... -
The Challenges of Transition: Essays on Nutrition and Climate Change
(2016-07-08)Transition processes are a concomitant feature of economic growth. The transition that many countries (especially developing and transition countries) undergo when they experience economic growth has manifold ...
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“I’m just well nourished” A study on Overweight and Obesity in Developing Countries
(2016-02-25)The purpose of this dissertation is to address policy makers to change the way they think about increasing obesity rates. So far the discussion revolves around increasing incomes and imposing taxes on high fat food, despite ...