Social Institutions, Gender Inequality, and Regional Convergence in Developing Countries.

• Superior document: Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series ; v.33
• Author: Branisa Caballero, Boris.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2012.; Ã2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction and Overview -- I Social institutions and gender inequality -- 1 The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Database -- 1.3 Construction of the Subindices -- 1.3.1 Measuring the Association between Categorical Variables -- 1.3.2 Aggregating Variables to Build a Subindex -- 1.4 The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) -- 1.5 Results -- 1.5.1 Country Rankings and Regional Patterns -- 1.5.2 Simple Correlation with other Gender-related Indices -- 1.5.3 Regression Analysis -- 1.6 Conclusion -- 1.7 Tables -- 1.8 Figures -- 2 Why care about social inst. related to gender ineq. -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Social Institutions and Household Decisions -- 2.2.1 Social Institutions and Female Education -- 2.2.2 Social Institutions and Fertility and Child Mortality Rates -- 2.3 Social Institutions and the Society: Governance -- 2.4 Data -- 2.5 Empirical estimation and Results -- 2.5.1 Empirical estimation -- 2.5.2 Results -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 2.7 Tables -- 3 Reexamining the link between gender and corruption -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Empirical Estimation and Results -- 3.2.1 Data -- 3.2.2 Empirical Estimation -- 3.2.3 Results -- 3.3 Conclusion -- 3.4 Tables -- 3.5 Figures -- II Regional growth convergence in Colombia -- 4 Regional convergence in Colombia: Income indicators -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Motivation and Background -- 4.2.1 Economic Background -- 4.2.2 Data Issues Affecting Convergence Results in Colombia -- 4.3 The Solow Model and Its Estimation -- 4.3.1 The Solow Model -- 4.3.2 Absolute Beta-Convergence -- 4.3.3 Conditional Convergence -- 4.3.4 Parameter Heterogeneity: Are There Different Steady States? -- 4.3.5 Sigma-Convergence -- 4.4 Distributional Approach: Quah's Critique.

4.5 Empirical Estimation and Results -- 4.5.1 Sigma-Convergence -- 4.5.2 Absolute Beta-Convergence -- 4.5.3 Conditional Beta-Convergence Using Control Variables -- 4.5.4 Beta-Convergence Using Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data -- 4.5.5 Kernel Density Estimators -- 4.6 Conclusions -- 4.7 Tables -- 4.8 Figures -- 5 Regional convergence in Colombia: Social indicators -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Motivation -- 5.3 Methods for Measuring Convergence -- 5.4 Data and Empirical Estimation -- 5.4.1 Data -- 5.4.2 Empirical estimation -- 5.5 Results -- 5.5.1 Literacy Rate -- 5.5.2 Infant Survival Rate -- 5.5.3 Life Expectancy at Birth -- 5.5.4 Nourishment -- 5.6 Conclusions -- 5.7 Tables -- 5.8 Figures -- Appendices -- Appendix to Essay 1.