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.