Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Neuzugänge
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Can community-based health insurance nudge preventive health behaviours?: Evidence from rural Uganda
(2019-01)Community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes have emerged as strong pathways to universal health coverage in developing countries. Their examination has largely focussed on their impacts on financial protection and on ... -
Impact of community-based health insurance on child health outcomes: Evidence on stunting from rural Uganda
(2019-01)While community-based health insurance (CBHI) becomes increasingly integrated into health systems in developing countries, there is still limited research and evidence on its probable health impacts beyond its functions ... -
Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China
(2020-12)Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and ... -
Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
(2020-11)Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect students’ educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to ... -
An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade
(2020-11)Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a “trembling ... -
CAP measures towards environmental sustainability: Trade opportunities for Africa?
(2020-05)The future EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) requires coherence with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the international commitments in the fight against climate change. Next to ensuring stable food supply by ... -
EU Common Agricultural Policy - Impacts on Trade with Africa and African Agricultural Development
(2020-05)The impacts of European agricultural and trade policies on agricultural development and food security in Africa are analyzed in this study. The research is prompted by the pending further development of the Common Agricultural ... -
Making cash crop value chains nutrition-sensitive: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in rural Sierra Leone
(2020-05)With a strong global commitment to ending food insecurity and malnutrition, policymakers are increasingly grappling with how to make smallholder agriculture nutrition-sensitive. While the need to address these problems on ... -
"Us" and "Them": Prosocial attitudes between refugees and host communities exposed to armed conflict: Experimental evidence from Northern Uganda
(2020-02)We examine prosocial attitudes between refugees and host communities exposed to armed conflict and living in close proximity in Northern Uganda. By conducting trust and dictator games in the field, we test if there are ... -
On the precarious link between the Gini coefficient and the incentive to migrate
(2020-02)We offer an explanation for the inconclusive results of empirical studies into the relationship between the magnitude of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind ... -
The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor: A hypothesis
(2021-12)We study a parent’s demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a ... -
The Nexus of Production Diversity, Market Participation and Dietary Diversity: Insights from Ethiopia
(2021-12)This study examines the nexus among production diversity, market participation, and consumption diversity in smallholder households. It identifies the main factors that influence smallholder farm households’ decision to ... -
A social-psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen’s measures of inequality and social welfare
(2021-09)The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen’s 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from social-psychological building blocks, reformulating it ... -
Employer sanctions: A policy with a pitfall?
(2021-08)This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision ... -
Effect of extreme weather events on child health in rural Uganda
(2021-06)Children in rural farming households across the developing countries are often vulnerable to a multitude of risks, including health risks associated with climate change and variability. This study empirically traced the ... -
Menopause as a regulatory device for matching the demand for children with its supply: A hypothesis
(2021-06)Drawing on two assumptions: that menopause is an instrument for the efficient regulation of the duration of a biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we ... -
Children in left-behind migrant households: education and gender equality
(2021-05)This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households “left behind” by the migrants. Left-behind households’ expenditure on children’s education and the gendered distribution ... -
An optimal split of school classes
(2021-02)In many countries, schools have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by splitting up classes. While the purpose of dividing classes is clearly health-related, the process of doing so poses an interesting question: what is ... -
Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling
(2021-01)Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny’s education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. ... -
Institutional and macroeconomic stability mediate the effect of auctions on renewable energy capacity
(2022-12)Decarbonizing the global energy matrix through investments in renewable energy (RE) is considered a pathway to mitigate the effects of global climate change. Auctions have become an increasingly popular policy instrument ...
