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

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

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


• No. 22: Shiferaw, Bedi(2009)
  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