Browsing by Author "Nerman, Måns"
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Essays on Development: Household Income, Education, and Female Political Participation and Representation
Nerman, Måns (2012-04-12)The thesis consists of four self-contained papers. Paper 1: The Push Towards UPE and the Determinants of the Demand for Education in Tanzania. This paper uses household data to investigate the determinants of demand for ... -
Households' income-generating activities and marginal returns to labor in rural Tanzania
Nerman, Måns (2012-11)This study uses detailed household-level data to investigate income and activity diversification among households in rural Tanzania. Unlike previous research on diversification, I explicitly evalutate marginal returns ... -
The Effects of Gender Quotas in Latin American National Elections
Kotsadam, Andreas; Nerman, Måns (2012-02)This study investigates the effects of gender quotas in national elections on political participation, public policy, and corruption in Latin America. We are able to replicate the findings from previous research that women ... -
The Gender Gap in African Political Participation: Individual and contextual determinants
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Kotsadam, Andreas; Nerman, Måns (2012-03)The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors underlying the gender gap in African electoral and inter-electoral political participation. Drawing on new data covering over 27,000 respondents from 246 regions in 20 emerging ... -
The Push Towards UPE and the Determinants of the Demand for Education in Tanzania
Nerman, Måns; Owens, Trudy (2010-10)This paper uses household data to investigate the determinants of demand for education in Tanzania and test whether these have changed during the government's push for Universal Primary Education in the 2000s. We find that ...