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

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67: The Quality Gravity Model with an Application to Chinese Imported Fruits

Xu Tian and Xiaohua Yu

66: World Food Prices after WTO Foundation: Deterministic and Non-deterministic Factors in Production

Stefan Meyer and Xiaohua Yu

65: Consumer Preferences for Country-of-Origin of U.S. Beef Products: A Meta Analysis

Xiaohua Yu and Zhifeng Gao

64: Climate Change and Production Risk in Chinese Aquaculture

Rainer Holst and Xiaohua Yu

63: Dancing with the Dragon Heads: Enforcement, Innovations and Efficiency of Contracts between Agricultural Processors and Farmers in China

Xiaohua Yu, David Abler and Chao Peng

62: Information Aggregation and Adverse Selection

Aristotelis Boukouras and Kostas Koufopoulos

61: Contract Law and Development

Aristotelis Boukouras

60: Separation of Powers, Political Competition and Efficient Provision of Public Goods

Aristotelis Boukouras and Kostas Koufopoulos

59: Frictions to Political Competition and Financial Openness

Aristotelis Boukouras and Kostas Koufopoulos

58: Political Competition, Ideology and Corruption

Aristotelis Boukouras and Kostas Koufopoulos

57: Aid-Dependency and Attributes of an Aid-Exit Strategy

Admasu Shiferaw and Degol Hailu

56: Multi-product Firms and Product Basket Adjustments in Ethiopian Manufacturing

Admasu Shiferaw

55: Distribution Dynamics of Regional GDP per Employee in Unifi ed Germany

Sebastian Vollmer, Hajo Holzmann, Florian Ketterer and Stephan Klasen

54: Price Dynamics in Tanzanian Maize Markets: Insights from a Semiparametric Cointegration Model

Rico Ihle and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

53: Assessing Seasonal Asymmetric Price Transmission in Ghanaian Tomato Markets With the Johansen Estimation Method

Rico Ihle and Joseph Amikuzuno

52: Deadly Cities? A Note on Spatial Inequalities in Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Isabel Günther and Kenneth Harttgen

51: Stages of Agricultural Commercialization in Uganda: The Role of the Markets

Oleg Nivievskyi, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel and Sergiy Zorya

50: Direct Simultaneous Inference in Additive Models and its Application to Model Undernutrition

Manuel Wiesenfarth, Tatyana Krivobokova, Stephan Klasen and Stefan Sperlich

49: Foreign Aid and Recipient Countries’ Exports: Does Aid Promote Bilateral Trade?

Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Adriana Cardozo Silva, Dierk Herzer and Stephan Klasen

48: Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya

Elisabeth Fischer and Matin Qaim

47: Poverty Severity in a Multidimensional Framework: The Issue of Inequality between Dimensions

Nicole Rippin

46: Identifying the Income-Poor: Some Controversies in India and Elsewhere

Sreenivasan Subramanian

45: Child Costs and the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply: An investigation for Indonesia 1993-2008

Jan Priebe

44: Vulnerability to Downside Risk and Poverty in Vietnam

Felix Povel

43: Perceived Vulnerability to Downside Risk

Felix Povel

42: Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target?

Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler

41: Fragility and MDG Progress: How useful is the Fragility Concept?

Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen

40: Who crops coca and why? The case of Colombian farmers

Marcela Ibáñez

39: Adoption of certified organic technologies: The case of coffee farming in Colombia

Marcela Ibáñez

38: Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid

Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler

37: On weighting the components of the Human Development Index: A statistical justification

Georges Nguefack-Tsague, Stephan Klasen and Walter Zucchini

36: Does membership on the UN Security Council influence IMF conditionality?

Axel Dreher, Jan-Egbert Sturm and James Vreeland

35: Undernutrition and the Nutrition Transition: Revising the undernutrition aspect of MDG I

Mark Misselhorn

34: Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme

Hannes Öhler, Peter Nunnenkamp and Axel Dreher

33: Cash Crop Choice and Income Dynamics in Rural Areas: Evidence for Post-Crisis Indonesia

Stephan Klasen, Jan Priebe and Robert Rudolf

32: Low Malnutrition but High Mortality: Explaining the Puzzle of the Lake Victoria Region

Johannes Gräb and Jan Priebe

31: A Constructive Proof for the Extremal Coefficient of a Dissipative Max-Stable Process on Z being a Set Covariance

Andree Ehlert and Martin Schlather

30: Some Results for Extreme Value Processes in Analogy to the Gaussian Spectral Representation

Andree Ehlert and Martin Schlather

29: Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do!

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler

28: Supermarkets, farm household income, and poverty: Insights from Kenya

Elizaphan J.O. Rao and Matin Qaim

27: Opportunities and constraints in agriculture: A gendered analysis of cocoa production in Southern Cameroon

Wokia-azi N. Kumase, Herve Bisseleua and Stephan Klasen

26: The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?

Axel Dreher, Stephan Klasen, James Vreeland and Eric Werker

25: Are ‘New’ Donors Different? Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid between Non-DAC and DAC Donor Countries

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele

24: Reexamining the link between gender and corruption: The role of social institutions

Boris Branisa and Maria Ziegler

23: Aid Allocation by German NGOs: Does the Degree of Public Refinancing Matter?

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Susann Thiel and Rainer Thiele

22: The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?

Admasu Shiferaw and Arjun Bedi

21: Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia

Melanie Grosse, Stephan Klasen and Julius Spatz

20: On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer and Jan Schnellenbach

19: An Assessment of the Effects of the 2002 Food Crisis on Children’s Health in Malawi

Renate Hartwig and Michael Grimm

18: Farmer participation in supermarket channels and technical efficiency: The case of vegetable production in Kenya

Elizaphan J.O. Rao and Matin Qaim

17: A survey-based choice experiment on coca cultivation

Marcela Ibanez and Fredrik Carlsson

16: Aid Allocation through Various Official and Private Channels: Need, Merit and Self-Interest as Motives of German Donors

Peter Nunnenkamp and Hannes Öhler

15: Why we should all care about social institutions related to gender inequality

Boris Branisa, Stephan Klasen and Maria Ziegler

14: Endogenous Institutional Change and Economic Development: A Micro-Level Analysis of Transmission Channels

Michael Grimm and Stephan Klasen

13: Productive efficiency of specialty and conventional coffee farmers in Costa Rica: Accounting for technological heterogeneity and self-selection

Meike Wollni and Bernhard Brümmer

12: Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Penalized Spline Estimators

Tatyana Krivobokova, Thomas Kneib and Gerda Claeskens

11: Levels and Trends in Absolute Poverty in the World: What we know and what we don’t

Stephan Klasen

10: New Measures of Gender Inequality: The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)and its Subindices

Boris Branisa, Stephan Klasen and Maria Ziegler

9: Pro-Poor Growth Using Non-Income Indicators: An Empirical Illustration for Colombia

Adriana Cardozo Silva and Melanie Grosse

8: Pro-Poor Progress in Education in Developing Countries?

Kenneth Hartgen, Stephan Klasen and Mark Misselhorn

7: Aid and Trade - A Donor’s Perspective

Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Stephan Klasen and Dierk Herzer

6: Inequality in Human Development: An empirical assessment of thirty-two countries

Michael Grimm, Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen, Mark Misselhorn, Teresa Munzi and Timothy Smeeding

5: A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status

Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen

4: Read my lips: the role of information transmission in multilateral reform design

Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani and Axel Dreher

3: History without Evidence: Latin American Inequality since 1491

Jeffrey G. Williamson

2: Which Firms Invest Less Under Uncertainty? Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing

Admasu Shiferaw

1: Acting Autonomously or Mimicking the State and Peers? A Panel Tobit Analysis of Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs

Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler and Johannes Weisser