Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers

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167: Your development or mine? Effects of donor-recipient cultural differences on the aid-growth nexus

Anna Minasyan

166: Analyzing Nutritional Impacts of Price and Income Related Shocks in Malawi: Simulating Household Entitlements to Food

Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen and Ramona Rischke

165: Impact of Weather Insurance on Small Scale Farmers: A Natural Experiment

Stephan Dietrich and Marcela Ibanez

164: Accuracy and Poverty Impacts of Proxy Means-Tested Transfers: An Empirical Assessment for Bolivia

Stephan Klasen and Simon Lange

163: The Effects of Delayed Tracking: Evidence from German States

Simon Lange and Marten von Werder

162: Livestock as an Imperfect Buffer Stock in Poorly Integrated Markets

Simon Lange and Malte Reimers

161: Affluence and emission trade-offs: evidence from Indonesian household carbon footprint

Mohammad Irfany

160: How do consumption patterns of foreign and domestic remittance recipients and non recipients compare? Evidence from Pakistan

Junaid Ahmed and Mazhar Mughal

159: Why don’t households invest in latrines: health, prestige, or safety?

Elena Gross and Isabel Günther

158: Do Philippine Households Lead a Carbon Intensive Lifestyle?

Moises Neil Seriño

157: Income Convergence in South Africa: Fact or Measurement Error?

Tobias Lechtenfeld and Asmus Zoch

156: The Effect of Drought on Health Outcomes and Health Expenditures in Rural Vietnam

Tobias Lechtenfeld and Steffen Lohmann

155: What drives child health improvements in Indonesian households? A micro-level perspective on complementarities in MDG achievements

Maria Lo Bue

154: Analyzing Effectiveness of Development Aid Projects: Evaluation Ratings or Project Indicators?

Laura Metzger and Isabel Günther

153: Why We Don’t See Poverty Convergence: The Role of Macroeconomic Volatility

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Stephan Klasen and Konstantin Wacker

152: Regional Agreements to Address Climate Change: Scope, Promise, Funding, and Impacts

Iris Butzlaff, Nicole Grunewald and Stephan Klasen

151: Economic cooperation despite of political conflict: Israeli traders’ perception of Israeli-Palestinian food trade

Geesche M. Merkle, Rico Ihle, Yael Kachel and Ulf Liebe

150: Sorting Through Affirmative Action: Two Field Experiments in Colombia

Marcela Ibanez, Gerhard Riener and Ashok Rai

149: The Effect of Outside Leaders on the Performance of the Organization: An Experiment

Marcela Ibanez and Elke Schaffland

148: Is the war on drugs working? Examining the Colombian case using micro data

Marcela Ibanez

147: Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

Sofia Trommlerová, Stephan Klasen and Ortrud Leßmann

146: What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India?

Stephan Klasen and Janneke Pieters

145: Elite Capture in Urban Development: Evidence from Indonesia

Rivayani Darmawan and Stephan Klasen

144: Desired Fertility and Children Born across Time and Space

Isabel Günther and Kenneth Harttgen

143: The Impact of Women’s Labour Force Participation on Domestic Violence in Jordan

Jana Lenze and Stephan Klasen

142: Traditional food crop marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does gender matter?

Christina Handschuch and Meike Wollni

141: Improved production systems for traditional food crops: The case of finger millet in Western Kenya

Christina Handschuch and Meike Wollni

140: Determinants of the duration and ending of terrorist and other non-state armed groups

Dominik Noe

139: Do Financially Constrained Firms Suffer from More Intense Competition by the Informal Sector? Firm-Level Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys

Julia Friesen and Konstantin Wacker

138: Does Having a Female Sarpanch Promote Service Delivery for Women and Democratic Participation of Women? Evidence from Maharashtra, India

Dhanmanjiri Sathe, Stephan Klasen, Jan Priebe and Mithila Biniwale

137: Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving

Ronald Davies and Stephan Klasen

136: Violent Behaviour: The effect of civil conflict on domestic violence in Colombia

Dominik Noe and Johannes Rieckmann

135: Conditional cooperation among the poor: a new profile?

Jonathan Gheyssens and Isabel Günther

134: Women: Walking and Waiting for Water The Time Value of Public Water Supply

Elena Gross, Isabel Günther and Youdi Schipper

133: Missing Women: Age and Disease: A Correction

Stephan Klasen and Sebastian Vollmer

132: Operationalising the Capability Approach: A German Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index

Nicole Rippin

131: Instant Trend-Seasonal Decomposition of Time Series with Splines

Luis Francisco Rosales and Tatyana Krivobokova

130: A unified framework for spline estimators

Katsiaryna Schwarz and Tatyana Krivobokova

129: Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment

Arusha Cooray, Isis Gaddis and Konstantin Wacker

128: Distributional Justice and Efficiency: Integrating Inequality Within and Between Dimensions in Additive Poverty Indices

Nicole Rippin

127: Bayesian Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression based on Penalized Splines and Dirichlet Process Mixtures

Manuel Wiesenfarth, Carlos Hisgen, Thomas Kneib and Carmen Cadarso-Suarez

126: Identifying synergies and complementarities between MDGs: Results from cluster analysis

Maria Lo Bue and Stephan Klasen

125: Price transmission from international to domestic markets

Friederike Greb, Nelissa Jamora, Carolin Mengel, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel and Nadine Würriehausen

124: The Role of Risk and Information for International Capital Flows: New Evidence from the SDDS

Yuko Hashimoto and Konstantin Wacker

123: Policy Note: MDGs post‐2015: What to do?

Stephan Klasen

122: Benefit incidence analysis, needs and demography. Measurement issues and an empirical study for Kenya

Isis Gaddis and Lionel Demery

121: Determinants of Donor Generosity: A Survey of the Aid Budget Literature

Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher and Peter Nunnenkamp

120: Growth and welfare e ffects of health care in knowledge based economies

Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner

119: Why does piped water not reduce diarrhea for children? Evidence from urban Yemen

Tobias Lechtenfeld

118: Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty Using Long-Term Panel Data

Katja Landau, Stephan Klasen and Walter Zucchini