Browsing Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät by Referee "Klasen, Stephan Prof. Dr."
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Development and Globalization
(2015-05-13)There are arguably few topics in current global economic policy as intensely debated as the impact of different facets of globalization on human development. Given that the concept of globalization reflects a multitude of ... -
A Contribution to the Empirics of Labour and Development Economics
(2014-12-19)This dissertation contains four essays of which the first two essays analyse the regional and individual persistence of unemployment, while the third essay explores the appropriate design for the amount of grant for cash ... -
Advances and Applications of Experimental Measures to Test Behavioral Saving Theories and a Method to Increase Efficiency in Binary and Multiple Treatment Assignment
(2017-12-22)This dissertation presents four independent papers that advance experimental methods and test theories on saving using experimentally elicited characteristics. The first two papers test two behavioral theories on ... -
Agricultural Transformation and Land-Use Change
(2017-04-28)Human induced land-use change has direct economic and ecological consequences, which are felt the most in the poorest world regions. Therefore, the key question in land-use change research is how to protect and enhance the ... -
Aid, Politics, Culture, and Growth
(2016-01-07)Political misalignment and greater ideological distance between donor and recipient governments may render foreign aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and eroding trust. In addition, development aid from the ... -
An economic analysis of community-based tourism in Thailand
(2011-04-27)This study constructs a panel data 2003 and 2007, a social accounting matrix (SAM) and a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) in 2007 to investigate the effect of tourism on ... -
Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies
(2014-04-24)The dissertation thesis titled “Battle and Beating, Water and Waste: Micro-Level Impact Evaluation in Developing and Emerging Economies” contains the findings of econometric impact evaluations conducted in two different ... -
Beyond punishment: Achieving sustainable compliance with the law. The case of coca-reducing policies in Colombia
(2015-04-21)The problem of illegal drugs is not contained in producing countries, but represents a global threat. My research focuses on how to achieve illegal crop reduction and compliance with the law in a sustainable fashion without ... -
Considerations of Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
(2014-02-18)From the nineteen-eighties onwards, Amartya Sen developed a new welfare theory: the capability approach (Sen, 1979; 1985; 1992; 1999; 2009). Capabilities and functionings, i.e. what persons are actually able to do and be, ... -
Constraints to informal entrepreneurs in developing countries
(2013-10-23)This thesis aims to narrow the research gap on informal enterprises, contributing to both the academic and policy debates. It provides empirical evidence related to two key questions: how much potential do informal firms ... -
Development and Gender Inequality
(2011-11-17)The four essays collected in this volume aim is to shed some light on specific aspect in which women are discriminated against (employment, education and access to health care) in developing ... -
Economic development and de-carbonization paths: Micro and macro perspectives from Indonesia
(2014-11-26)The three essays of this dissertation associate topics on economic development and climate change. All essays discuss the general topic on how to link rising income level and environmental trade-offs, focusing on CO2 ... -
Economic Inequality: Causes, Consequences, and Measurement Issues.
(2016-09-27)Inequality and fairness have always been at the heart of any political concept aiming at the well-being of the people. The idea of equality is as old as the democracy itself, and besides instrumental reasons for valuing ... -
Employment and Micro and Small Enterprises
(2020-01-16)This cumulative dissertation analyses the performance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries and their role in the creation of productive employment and decent work. It consists of four independent ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Democracy and Education
(2016-05-04)Essay 1: We reexamine the effect of economic development on the level of democracy based on the data sets of Acemoglu et al. (2008) with a novel regression specification utilizing a zero-one-inflated beta distribution for ... -
Essays in Empirical Development and Education Economics
(2015-09-17)This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium ... -
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 ... -
Essays on Development and Behavior Economics: An Impact Evaluation of the “Bolsa Família” - Conditional Cash Transfer on Education and the Effect of Leadership Identity on Group Cooperation and Elite Capture
(2014-06-18)The dissertation at hand is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 presents an impact evaluation of a widely spread conditional cash transfer in Brazil called “Bolsa Família”. We analyze the impacts of the program on two ... -
Essays on Food Security and the Nutrition Transition in Developing Countries
(2014-12-19)The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries used to focus on undernourishment (i.e. lack of calorie consumption) and related outcomes, today, many ... -
Essays on Gender, Migration, and Development
(2018-08-21)This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument ...