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

The CRC-PEG Discussion Papers and abstracts are available [here].

• No. 108: Aytimur, Boukouras, Schwager (2012)
  Voting as a Signaling Device


• No. 107: Kumar, Vollmer (2011)
  Does Improved Sanitation Reduce Diarrhea in Children in Rural India?


• No. 106: Rudolf (2012)
  Rural Reforms, Agricultural Productivity, and the Biological Standard of Living in South Korea, 1941-1974


• No. 105: Kouser, Qaim (2012)
  Valuing financial, health, and environmental benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan


• No. 104: Grimm, Lange, Lay (2011)
  Credit-constrained in risky activities? The determinants of capital stocks of micro and small firms in Western Africa


• No. 103: Greb, v. Cramon-Taubadel, Krivobokova, Munk (2011)
  Threshold estimation in price transmission analysis


• No. 102: Klasen, Lechtenfeld, Meier, Rieckmann (2011)
  Impact Evaluation Report: Water Supply and Sanitation in Provincial Towns in Yemen


• No. 101: Rudolf, Kang (2011)
  Adaptation under Traditional Gender Roles:
  Testing the Baseline Hypothesis in South Korea


• No. 100: Ihle, Götz, Rubin (2011)
  State-Space Cointegration Modeling for the Analysis of Exogenous Shocks to Prices in Israeli-Palestinian Food Trade


• No. 99: Greb, Krivobokova, Munk, von Cramon-Taubadel (2011)
  Regularized Bayesian estimation in generalized threshold regression models.


• No. 98: Wacker, Vadlamannati (2011)
  Do Multinationals Influence Labor Standards?
  A Close Look at US Outward FDI


• No. 97: Hernandez, Rudolph (2011)
  Modern Day Slavery:
  What Drives Human Trafficking in Europe?


• No. 96: Cho, Dreher, Neumayer (2011)
  Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?


• No. 95: Köhler, Schindler, Sperlich (2011)
  A Review and Comparison of Bandwidth Selection Methods for Kernel Regression


• No. 94: Köhler, Sperlich, Vortmeyer (2011)
  The Africa-Dummy in Growth Regressions


• No. 93: Dreher, Fuchs (2011)
  Rogue Aid? The Determinants of China’s Aid Allocation


• No. 92: Grunewald, Klasen, Martínez-Zarzoso, Muris (2011)
  Income inequality and carbon emissions


• No. 91: Greb, Klasen, Pasaribu, Wiesenfarth (2011)
  Dollar a Day Re-Revisited


• No. 90: Reimers, Klasen (2011)
  Revisiting the Role of Education for Agricultural Productivity


• No. 89: Kabunga, Dubois, Qaim (2011)
  Impact of Tissue Culture Banana Technology on Farm Household Income and Food Security in Kenya


• No. 88: de Haen, Klasen, Qaim (2011)
  What do we really know? Metrics for food insecurity and undernutrition


• No. 87: Klasen, Lange (2011)
  Getting Progress Right: Measuring Progress Towards the MDGs Against Historical Trends


• No. 86: Dreher, Fuchs (2011)
  Does terror increase aid?


• No. 85: Krivobokova (2011)
  Smoothing parameter selection for penalized spline estimators


• No. 84: Schaffland (2011)
  Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil: Treatment Evaluation of the 'Bolsa Família' Program on Education


• No. 83: Nunnenkamp, Öhler, Schwörer (2011)
  US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: Survival of the Fittest?


• No. 82: Kabunga, Dubois, Qaim (2011)
  Yield Effects of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya: Accounting for Selection Bias and the Role of Complementary Inputs


• No. 81: Dreher, Nunnenkamp, Vadlamannati (2011)
  The Role of Country-of-origin Characteristics for Foreign Direct Investment and Technical Cooperation in Post-reform India


• No. 80: Kathage, Qaim (2011)
  Are the economic benefits of Bt cotton sustainable? Evidence from Indian panel data


• No. 79: Boukouras (2011)
  Separation of Ownership and Control:
  Delegation as a Commitment Device


• No. 78: Dreher, Vreeland(2011)
  Buying Votes and International Organizations


• No. 77: Rudolf, Cho (2011)
  The Gender-Specific Effect of Working Hours on Family Happiness in South Korea


• No. 76: Klasen, Lechtenfeld, Povel (2011)
  What about the Women? Female Headship, Poverty and Vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam


• No. 75: Harttgen, Klasen (2011)
  A Human Development Index at the Household Level


• No. 74: Kabunga, Dubois, Qaim (2011)
  Information Asymmetries and Technology Adoption:
  The Case of Tissue Culture Bananas in Kenya


• No. 73: Cho (2011)
  Integrating Equality - Globalization, Women’s Rights, Son Preference and Human Trafficking


• No. 72: Nunnenkamp, Öhler (2011)
  Donations to US based NGOs in International Development Cooperation: How (Un-)Informed Are Private Donors?


• No. 71: Gaddis, Klasen (2011)
  A Re-Assessment of the Feminization U Hypothesis


• No. 70: Yu, Zeng, Liu (2011)
  Consumer Willingness to Pay for Preservative-Free Food: The Case of Beijing


• No. 69: Gao, Yu, Lee (2011)
  Consumer Demand for Healthy Diet: New Evidence from the Healthy Eating Index


• No. 68: Holst, Yu, Grün (2011)
  Climate Change, Risk and Grain Production in China


• No. 67: Tian, Yu (2011)
  The Quality Gravity Model with an Application to Chinese Imported Fruits


• No. 66: Meyer, Yu (2011)
  World Food Prices after WTO Foundation: Deterministic and Non-deterministic Factors in Production


• No. 65: Yu, Gao (2011)
  Consumer Preferences for Country-of-Origin of U.S. Beef Products: A Meta Analysis


• No. 64: Holst, Yu (2011)
  Climate Change and Production Risk in Chinese Aquaculture


• No. 63: Yu, Abler, Peng (2011)
  Dancing with the Dragon Heads: Enforcement, Innovations and Efficiency of Contracts between Agricultural Processors and Farmers in China


• No. 62: Boukouras, Koufopoulos (2011)
  Information Aggregation and Adverse Selection


• No. 61: Boukouras (2011)
  Contract Law and Development


• No. 60: Boukouras, Koufopoulos (2011)
  Separation of Powers, Political Competition and Efficient Provision of Public Goods


• No. 59: Boukouras, Koufopoulos (2011)
  Frictions to Political Competition and Financial Openness


• No. 58: Boukouras, Koufopoulos (2011)
  Political Competition, Ideology and Corruption


• No. 57: Shiferaw, Hailu (2010)
  Aid-Dependency and Attributes of an Aid-Exit Strategy


• No. 56: Shiferaw (2010)
  Multi-product Firms and Product Basket Adjustments in Ethiopian Manufacturing


• No. 55: Vollmer, Holzmann, Ketterer, Klasen (2010)
  Distribution Dynamics of Regional GDP per Employee in Unified Germany


• No. 54: Ihle, v. Cramon-Taubadel (2010)
  Price Dynamics in Tanzanian Maize Markets:
  Insights from a Semiparametric Cointegration Model


• No. 53: Ihle, Amikuzuno (2010)
  Assessing Seasonal Asymmetric Price Transmission in Ghanaian Tomato Markets with the Johansen Estimation Method


• No. 52: Günther, Harttgen (2010)
  Deadly Cities? A Note on Spatial Inequalities in Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa


• No. 51: Nivievskyi, v. Cramon-Taubadel, Zorya (2010)
  Stages of Agricultural Commercialization in Uganda:
  The Role of the Markets


• No. 50: Wiesenfarth, Krivobokova, Klasen, Sperlich (2010)
  Direct Simultaneous Inference in Additive Models and its Application to Model Undernutrition


• No. 49: Nowak-Lehmann, Martínez-Zarzoso, Cardozo, Herzer, Klasen (2010)
  Foreign Aid and Recipient Countries’ Exports:
  Does Aid Promote Bilateral Trade?


• No. 48: Fischer, Qaim (2010)
  Linking Smallholders to Markets:
  Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya


• No. 47: Rippin (2010)
  Poverty Severity in a Multidimensional Framework:
  The Issue of Inequality between Dimensions


• No. 46: Subramanian (2010)
  Identifying the Income-Poor:
  Some Controversies in India and Elsewhere


• No. 45: Priebe (2010)
  Child Costs and the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply: An investigation for Indonesia 1993-2008


• No. 44: Povel (2010)
  Vulnerability to Downside Risk and Poverty in Vietnam


• No. 43: Povel (2010)
  Perceived Vulnerability to Downside Risk


• No. 42: Nunnenkamp, Öhler (2010)
  Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries:
  Missing the Target?


• No. 41: Harttgen, Klasen (2010)
  Fragility and MDG Progress: How useful is the Fragility Concept?


• No. 40: Ibáñez (2010)
  Who crops coca and why? The case of Colombian farmers


• No. 39: Ibáñez (2010)
  Adoption of certified organic technologies:
  The case of coffee farming in Colombia


• No. 38: Nunnenkamp, Öhler (2010)
  Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs:
  An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid


• No. 37: Nguefack-Tsague, Klasen, Zucchini (2010)
  On weighting the components of the Human Development Index: A statistical justification


• No. 36: Dreher, Sturm, Vreeland (2010)
  Does membership on the UN Security Council influence IMF conditionality?


• No. 35: Misselhorn (2010)
  Undernutrition and the Nutrition Transition:
  Revising the undernutrition aspect of MDG I


• No. 34: Öhler, Nunnenkamp, Dreher (2010)
  Does Conditionality Work?
  A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme


• No. 33: Klasen, Priebe, Rudolf (2010)
  Cash Crop Choice and Income Dynamics in Rural Areas:
  Evidence for Post-Crisis Indonesia


• No. 32: Gräb, Priebe (2010)
  Low Malnutrition but High Mortality:
  Explaining the Puzzle of the Lake Victoria Region


• No. 31: Ehlert, Schlather (2010)
  A Constructive Proof for the Extremal Coefficient of a Dissipative Max-Stable Process on ? being a Set Covariance


• No. 30: Ehlert, Schlather (2010)
  Some Results for Extreme Value Processes in Analogy to the Gaussian Spectral Representation


• No. 29: Dreher, Nunnenkamp, Öhler (2010)
  Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do!


• No. 28: Rao, Qaim (2010)
  Supermarkets, farm household income, and poverty:
  Insights from Kenya


• No. 27: Kumase, Bisseleua, Klasen (2010)
  Opportunities and constraints in agriculture:
  A gendered analysis of cocoa production in Southern Cameroon


• No. 26: Dreher, Klasen, Vreeland, Werker (2010)
  The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?


• No. 25: Dreher, Nunnenkamp, Thiele (2010)
  Are ‘New’ Donors Different?
  Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid between Non-DAC and DAC Donor Countries


• No. 24: Branisa, Ziegler (2010)
  Reexamining the link between gender and corruption:
  The role of social institutions


• No. 23: Dreher, Nunnenkamp, Thiel, Thiele (2009)
  Aid Allocation by German NGOs: Does the Degree of Public Refinancing Matter?


• No. 22: Shiferaw, Bedi(2010)
  The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction:
  Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?


• No. 21: Grosse, Klasen, Spatz (2009)
  Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty:
  An Application to Bolivia


• No. 20: Bjørnskov, Dreher, Fischer, Schnellenbach (2009)
  On the relation between income inequality and happiness:
  Do fairness perceptions matter?


• No. 19: Hartwig, Grimm (2009)
  An Assessment of the Effects of the 2002 Food Crisis on Children’s Health in Malawi


• No. 18: Rao, Qaim (2009)
  Farmer participation in supermarket channels and technical efficiency:
  The case of vegetable production in Kenya


• No. 17: Ibanez, Carlsson (2009)
  A survey-based choice experiment on coca cultivation


• No. 16: Nunnenkamp, Öhler (2009)
  Aid Allocation through Various Official and Private Channels:
  Need, Merit and Self-Interest as Motives of German Donors


• No. 15: Branisa, Klasen, Ziegler (2009)
  Why we should all care about social institutions related to gender inequality


• No. 14: Grimm, Klasen (2009)
  Endogenous Institutional Change and Economic Development:
  A Micro-Level Analysis of Transmission Channels


• No. 13: Wollni, Brümmer (2009)
  Productive efficiency of specialty and conventional coffee farmers in Costa Rica:
  Accounting for technological heterogeneity and self-selection


• No. 12: Krivobokova, Kneib, Claeskens (2009)
  Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Penalized Spline Estimators


• No. 11: Klasen (2009)
  Levels and Trends in Absolute Poverty in the World:
  What we know and what we don’t


• No. 10: Branisa, Klasen, Ziegler(2009)
  New Measures of Gender Inequality:
  The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its Subindices


• No. 9: Cardozo, Grosse (2009)
  Pro-Poor Growth Using Non-Income Indicators:
  An Empirical Illustration for Colombia


• No. 8: Harttgen, Klasen, Misselhorn (2009)
  Pro-Poor Progress in Education in Developing Countries?


• No. 7: Nowak-Lehmann, Martínez Zarzoso, Klasen, Herzer (2009)
  Aid and Trade - A Donor’s Perspective


• No. 6: Grimm, Harttgen, Klasen, Misselhorn, Munzi, Smeeding (2009)
  Inequality in Human Development:
  An empirical assessment of thirty-two countries


• No. 5: Harttgen, Klasen (2009)
  A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status


• No. 4: Marchesi, Sabani, Dreher (2009)
  Read my lips: the role of information transmission in multilateral reform design


• No. 3: Williamson (2009)
  History without Evidence:
  Latin American Inequality since 1491


• No. 2: Shiferaw (2009)
  Which Firms Invest Less Under Uncertainty?
  Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing


• No.1: Dreher, Nunnenkamp, Öhler, Weisser (2009)
  Acting Autonomously or Mimicking the State and Peers?
  A Panel Tobit Analysis of Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs