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1. Horizontal inequalities in Africa
Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi; Harttgen, Kenneth; Lahoti, Rahul; Günther, Isabel;2024
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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2. Inequality, social mobility and redistributive preferences
Günther, Isabel; Martorano, Bruno;2023
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link 3. The fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa : the role of structural change
abstractDespite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition. We create a unique panel data set combining Demographic and Health Surveys, Household Income Surveys, and nighttime light intensity data, as an indicator for industrialization, from 57 countries at the sub-national regional level over three decades to analyze the driving forces of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female basic education are crucial for fertility reductions. Yet, our analysis also highlights the important role of increased female labor force participation in the formal sector, industrialization, increased female secondary education, and the expansion of health insurance coverage. Urbanization appears to have a limited, if any, effect. Our simulations indicate that if high-fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa had experienced similar structural economic change as low- and middle-income countries with low fertility, their fertility levels could be up to 50% lower.
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan;2023
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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abstractWe analyze the impact of public water infrastructure and water handling technologies on the water quality and water handling behavior of households in rural Benin using both quasi-experimental and experimental household-level panel data. We find that the installation of improved village-level water sources induces households to reduce water disinfection efforts at home, indicating that households perceive improved public water infrastructure as a substitute for improved water handling to obtain safe drinking water. Consequently, point-of-use drinking water quality does not change. A reduction of contamination with E. coli at points of use can only be achieved if interventions providing drinking water technologies at the water source are complemented by household-level interventions and efforts to teach households how to maintain good water quality.
Groß, Elena; Guenther, Isabel; Schipper, Youdi;2022
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Durizzo, Kathrin; Asiedu, Edward; Van der Merwe, Antoinette; Günther, Isabel;2022
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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6. Toward mandatory health insurance in low-income countries? : an analysis of claims data in Tanzania
Durizzo, Kathrin; Harttgen, Kenneth; Tediosi, Fabrizio; Sahu, Maitreyi; Kuwawenaruwa, August; Salari, Paola; Günther, Isabel;2022
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 4 (based on OpenCitations)
7. Do social investments by mining companies harm citizen-state relations? : experimental evidence from Burkina Faso
Bezzola, Selina Silvia; Brugger, Fritz; Günther, Isabel; Sebhatu, Dawit;2022
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Citations: 2 (based on OpenCitations)
8. The fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of structural change
abstractDespite relatively sustained economic growth in at least parts of Sub-Saharan Africa over the past twenty years, the fertility transition has not much advanced in most countries in that region. We explore whether the lack of structural change can explain this slow transition. For this end, we analyze the determinants of fertility transitions across the developing world using a novel regional level panel dataset created by matching Demographic and Health Surveys and Household Income Surveys from 60 countries over three decades. Our key hypothesis is that structural change, i.e. a shift of employment from subsistence agriculture to more skill-intensive services, accompanied by an increase in human capital accumulation, is a key driver of the fertility transition. Our results indicate that higher education of women, female employment in non-agricultural formal jobs and industrialization as measured by an increase in nighttime light intensity are indeed important determinants of the fertility transition. We also find suggestive evidence for a complementary role of access to health insurance. Simulations show that if high-fertility countries in Sub-Saharan Africa had experienced the same structural change as the most demographically advanced regions in our sample over the last twenty years, fertility levels would be up to 40% lower.
Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan;2022
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Kudrzycki, Bartlomiej; Günther, Isabel; Renold, Ursula; Monserrat, Paola;2024
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Van der Merwe, Antoinette; Brugger, Fritz; Günther, Isabel;2024
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