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The impact of gender inequality in education and employment on economic growth in developing Countries: Updates and extensions
Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - 2008
Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … long time period (1960-2000), we update the results of previous studies on education gaps on growth and extend the analysis … to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment significantly reduce economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281815
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991-2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286634
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991 - 2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319838
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The nexus between agricultural productivity, poverty, and social services provision in Sub-Saharan Africa : an empirical analysis
Reimers, Malte - 2014
-authored by Stephan Klasen) aims to solve a micro-macro paradox on the role of education for agricultural productivity. From a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526649
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Essays in development economics : democracy and education
Idzalika, Rajius - 2016
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 the response variable democracy. Contrary to the results of Acemoglu et...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570579
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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective
Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - 2016
-income achievements in education and health. This article contributes to the literature by expanding the toolbox with several new measures …, poor education outcomes, poor health outcomes, low land productivity and low labor productivity overlap only to a small … decade of the 2000s. Our application shows that the enormous progress made in the income, education and health dimension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455218