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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity
Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2004
achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261798
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Educational gender gaps and economic growth : a systematic review and meta-regression analysis
Minasyan, Anna; Zenker, Juliane; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2018
education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies … using male and female education as separate covariates show a larger effect of female than male education on growth, except …-regression analysis for studies that use the female-male ratio of education as explanatory variable. There we find evidence for a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890803
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Essays on international migration and informal markets in developing countries
Böhme, Marcus - 2013
This thesis looks at two topics that have been prominent on the development agenda for more than five decades: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their development potential, a clear understanding of the mechanisms at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223163
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Education and marriage age : theory and evidence
Baliga, Sandeep; Goyal, Sanjeev; Klasen, Stephan - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428243
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Population, population density, and technological change
Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004
In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261207
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Population, Population Density, and Technological Change
Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004
In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263503
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Population, population density, and technological change
Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004
In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449334
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Population, Population Density, and Technological Change
Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2021
In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319221
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Armutsreduzierung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
Klasen, Stephan - 2006
In diesem Beitrag werden theoretische und empirische Zusammenhänge zwischen Globalisierung und absoluter Armut in Entwicklungsländern beleuchtet. Es wird gezeigt, dass die zunehmende Handelsintegration die Chancen für verbesserte Armutsreduktion eröffnet und viele Entwicklungsländer davon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265074
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Levels and trends in absolute poverty in the world : what we know and what we don't
Klasen, Stephan - 2009
This paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008. While they have little impact on observed poverty trends and while there are good reasons to believe that the previous numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255780