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

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117: Impact of tissue culture banana technology in Kenya: A difference-in-difference estimation approach

Enoch M. Kikulwe, Nassul Kabunga and Matin Qaim

116: From Worship to Worldly Pleasures: Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth

Holger Strulik

115: A Simple Approach to Specifying the Weights of the HDI Index

Xiaohua Yu

114: A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development with Fertility?

Kenneth Harttgen and Sebastian Vollmer

113: The Enigmas of TFP in China: A Meta-Analysis

Xu Tian and Xiaohua Yu

112: Estimating transport costs and trade barriers in China: Direct evidence from Chinese agricultural traders

Zhigang Li, Xiaohua Yu, Yinchu Zeng and Rainer Holst

111: On the Norms of Charitable Giving in Islam: A Field Experiment

Fatima Lambarraa Lehnhardt and Gerhard Riener

110: Benefits trickling away: The health impact of extending access to piped water and sanitation in urban Yemen

Stephan Klasen, Tobias Lechtenfeld, Kristina Meier and Johannes Rieckmann

109: An African Growth Miracle? Or: What do Asset Indices Tell Us about Trends in Economic Performance?

Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen and Sebastian Vollmer

108: Voting as a Signaling Device

R. Emre Aytimur, Aristotelis Boukouras and Robert Schwager

107: Does Improved Sanitation Reduce Diarrhea in Children in Rural India?

Santosh Kumar and Sebastian Vollmer

106: Rural Reforms, Agricultural Productivity, and the Biological Standard of Living in South Korea, 1941-1974

Robert Rudolf

105: Valuing financial, health, and environmental benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan

Shahzad Kouser and Matin Qaim

104: Credit-constrained in risky activities? The determinants of capital stocks of micro and small firms in Western Africa

Michael Grimm, Simon Lange and Jann Lay

103: The estimation of threshold models in price transmission analysis

Friederike Greb, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel, Tatyana Krivobokova and Axel Munk

102: Impact Evaluation Report: Water Supply and Sanitation in Provincial Towns in Yemen

Stephan Klasen, Tobias Lechtenfeld, Kristina Meier and Johannes Rieckmann

101: Adaptation under Traditional Gender Roles: Testing the Baseline Hypothesis in South Korea

Robert Rudolf and Sung-Jin Kang

100: State-Space Cointegration Modeling for the Analysis of Exogenous Shocks to Prices in Israeli-Palestinian Food Trade

Rico Ihle, Linde Götz and Ofir Rubin

99: Regularized Bayesian estimation in generalized threshold regression models

Friederike Greb, Tatyana Krivobokova, Axel Munk and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

98: Do Multinationals Influence Labor Standards? A Close Look at US Outward FDI

Konstantin Wacker and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

97: Modern Day Slavery: What Drives Human Trafficking in Europe?

Diego Hernandez and Alexandra Rudolph

96: Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?

Seo-Young Cho, Axel Dreher and Eric Neumayer

95: A Review and Comparison of Bandwidth Selection Methods for Kernel Regression

Max Köhler, Anja Schindler and Stefan Sperlich

94: The Africa-Dummy in Growth Regressions

Max Köhler, Stefan Sperlich and Julian Vortmeyer

93: Rogue Aid? The Determinants of China’s Aid Allocation

Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs

92: Income inequality and carbon emissions

Nicole Grunewald, Stephan Klasen, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Chris Muris

91: Dollar a Day Re-Revisited

Friederike Greb, Stephan Klasen, Syamsul Pasaribu and Manuel Wiesenfarth

90: Revisiting the Role of Education for Agricultural Productivity

Malte Reimers and Stephan Klasen

89: Impact of Tissue Culture Banana Technology on Farm Household Income and Food Security in Kenya

Nassul Kabunga, Thomas Dubois and Matin Qaim

88: What do we really know? Metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition

Hartwig de Haen, Stephan Klasen and Matin Qaim

87: Getting Progress Right: Measuring Progress Towards the MDGs Against Historical Trends

Stephan Klasen and Simon Lange

86: Does terror increase aid?

Axel Dreher and Andreas Fuchs

85: Smoothing parameter selection in two frameworks for penalized splines

Tatyana Krivobokova

84: Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil: Treatment Evaluation of the “Bolsa Família” Program on Education

Elke Schaffland

83: US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: Survival of the Fittest?

Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler and Tillmann Schwörer

82: Yield Effects of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya: Accounting for Selection Bias and the Role of Complementary Inputs

Nassul Kabunga, Thomas Dubois and Matin Qaim

81: The Role of Country-of-origin Characteristics for Foreign Direct Investment and Technical Cooperation in Post-reform India

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati

80: Are the economic benefits of Bt cotton sustainable? Evidence from Indian panel data

Jonas Kathage and Matin Qaim

79: Separation of Ownership and Control: Delegation as a Commitment Device

Aristotelis Boukouras

78: Buying Votes and International Organizations

Axel Dreher and James Vreeland

77: The Gender-Specific Effect of Working Hours on Family Happiness in South Korea

Robert Rudolf and Seo-Young Cho

76: What about the Women? Female Headship, Poverty and Vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam

Stephan Klasen, Tobias Lechtenfeld and Felix Povel

75: A Human Development Index at the Household Level

Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen

74: Information Asymmetries and Technology Adoption: The Case of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya

Nassul Kabunga, Thomas Dubois and Matin Qaim

73: Integrating Equality - Globalization, Women’s Rights, Son Preference and Human Trafficking

Seo-Young Cho

72: Donations to US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: How (Un-)Informed Are Private Donors?

Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler

71: Economic Development, Structural Change and Women’s Labor Force Participation A Reexamination of the Feminization U Hypothesis

Isis Gaddis and Stephan Klasen

70: Consumer Willingness to Pay for Preservative-Free Food: The Case of Beijing

Xiaohua Yu, Yinchu Zeng and Yuanyuan Liu

69: Consumer Demand for Healthy Diet: New Evidence from the Healthy Eating Index

Zhifeng Gao, Xiaohua Yu and Jonq-Ying Lee

68: Climate Change, Risk and Grain Production in China

Rainer Holst, Xiaohua Yu and Carola Grün