Dreher, Axel

[["dc.contributor.author","Gehring, Kai"],["dc.contributor.author","Dreher, Axel"],["dc.contributor.author","Klasen, Stephan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-05-25T19:25:11Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-05-25T19:25:11Z"],["dc.date.issued","2013"],["dc.description.abstract","Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education, health, and civil society projects could be affected by gender inequality concerns. In this paper, we investigate whether donors indeed give more aid to countries with larger gender gaps ('need') in education, health, employment, or women’s rights, or rather reward improvements in those indicators ('merit'). We find some evidence that gender gaps in education and health affect the allocation of aid in those sectors and overall, while greater female political representation appears to be ‘rewarded’ with higher aid flows; employment gaps do not seem to affect the allocation of aid. Taking account of substantive and statistical significance, overall, there is modest evidence that gender gaps affect the allocation of aid in total and for particular sectors. The quantitative effects are rather small in size and differ by donor country (group) and donor as well as recipient characteristics."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.2139/ssrn.2371072"],["dc.identifier.uri","http://hdl.handle.net/2/14771"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.title","Gesture Politics or Real Commitment?: Gender inequality and the allocation of aid"],["dc.type","working_paper"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","464"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","World Development"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","480"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","70"],["dc.contributor.author","Dreher, Axel"],["dc.contributor.author","Gehring, Kai"],["dc.contributor.author","Klasen, Stephan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-05-25T17:10:46Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-05-25T17:10:46Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","We investigate whether donors give more aid to countries with larger gender gaps in education, health, or women’s rights, and whether they reward improvements in those indicators. We find some evidence that high gender gaps in education and health are associated with higher allocation of aid in those sectors and aid overall. Greater female political representation also appears to come along with higher aid flows. While we find no systematic evidence that donors allocate funds with regard to merit, our results show that donors are more responsive to inequalities in countries that provide good legal rights for women."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.07.016"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/11766"],["dc.identifier.uri","http://hdl.handle.net/2/14756"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät"],["dc.rights","CC BY-NC-ND 3.0"],["dc.rights.uri","http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"],["dc.title","Gesture Politics or Real Commitment? Gender Inequality and the Allocation of Aid"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.volumenumber","B19-V1"],["dc.contributor.author","Nowak-Lehmann, Felicitas D."],["dc.contributor.author","Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada"],["dc.contributor.author","Herzer, Dierk"],["dc.contributor.author","Klasen, Stephan"],["dc.contributor.author","Dreher, Axel"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-06-05T11:38:41Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-06-05T11:38:41Z"],["dc.date.issued","2010"],["dc.description.abstract","In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of development aid in recipient countries. Specifically, we analyze the relationship between per-capita income and foreign aid for a maximum of 131 recipient countries over the 1960 to 2006 period. We employ annual data and 5-year averages and, contrary to the previous literature, carefully examine the time-series properties of the data. The previous literature overlooks the non-existence of a long-run relationship between aid and growth and the presence of autocorrelated error terms. To address those problems, we apply panel time-series techniques (panel unit-root tests, panel cointegration tests, and panel dynamic feasible generalized least-squares estimation [DFGLS]). Estimations with DFGLS show that aid has an insignificant or minute negative significant impact on per-capita income. This holds for countries with both above- and below-average aid-to-GDP ratios, for different levels of human development, different income levels and different regions of the world. We also find that aid has a significantly positive (although small) impact on investment, but a significant negative impact on domestic savings (crowding out) and the real exchange rate (appreciation)."],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/14886"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.relation.conference","Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik"],["dc.relation.eventend","2010"],["dc.relation.eventlocation","Kiel"],["dc.relation.eventstart","2010"],["dc.relation.ispartof","Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Effectiveness of Foreign Aid"],["dc.title","Foreign Aid and Its Effect on Per-Capita Income (Growth) in Recipient Countries: Pitfalls and Findings from a Time Series Perspective"],["dc.type","conference_paper"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","157"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Economic Development and Cultural Change"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","191"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","62"],["dc.contributor.author","Dreher, Axel"],["dc.contributor.author","Klasen, Stephan"],["dc.contributor.author","Vreeland, James Raymond"],["dc.contributor.author","Werker, Eric"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-06-05T08:48:21Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-06-05T08:48:21Z"],["dc.date.issued","2013"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1086/671711"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/14876"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.title","The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically Driven Aid Less Effective?"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.contributor.author","Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada"],["dc.contributor.author","Nowak-Lehmann, Felicitas D."],["dc.contributor.author","Klasen, Stephan"],["dc.contributor.author","Herzer, Dierk"],["dc.contributor.author","Dreher, Axel"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-06-05T14:30:01Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-06-05T14:30:01Z"],["dc.date.issued","2009"],["dc.description.abstract","In this paper we investigate the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid for a panel of131 (alternatively 52) recipient countries over the period 1960 to 2006 by employing annual data and 5-year averages. Reliance on standard panel estimation techniques (such as 2-ways FE estimation, panel GMM and SUR estimation) points to some pitfalls (impossibility of possible cointegration between aid and growth, autocorrelation of the error terms, endogeneity of the variables) that must be dealt with panel time series techniques (such as panel unit root test, panel cointegration tests, a panel Granger causality test and panel dynamic feasible generalized least squares estimation (DFGLS). Estimations with DFGLS show that aid has an insignificant or a minute negative significant impact on per capita income. This result holds for countries with above- and below-average aid-to-GDP ratios, for countries with different levels of human development, with different income levels and from different regions of the world. It can be shown that by not controlling for autocorrelation, one erroneously attributes to aid a larger, significant negative impact on per capita income. We also find that aid has a significant positive (even though) small impact on investment, but a negative and significant impact on domestic savings (crowding out) and the real exchange rate (appreciation)."],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/14902"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.relation.conference","German Development Economics Conference"],["dc.relation.eventend","2009"],["dc.relation.eventlocation","Frankfurt"],["dc.relation.eventstart","2009"],["dc.relation.ispartof","Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference"],["dc.title","The search for a long-run aid and growth relationship: Pitfalls and findings"],["dc.type","conference_paper"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","288"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","313"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","45"],["dc.contributor.author","Nowak-Lehmann, Felicitas"],["dc.contributor.author","Dreher, Axel"],["dc.contributor.author","Herzer, Dierk"],["dc.contributor.author","Klasen, Stephan"],["dc.contributor.author","Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-05-27T17:18:15Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-05-27T17:18:15Z"],["dc.date.issued","2012"],["dc.description.abstract","We analyze the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid. We employ annual data and five‐year averages and carefully examine the time‐series properties of the data. Panel estimations with dynamic feasible generalized least‐squares (DFGLS) show that aid generally has an insignificant or minute negative significant impact on per capita income (particularly in highly aid‐dependent countries). This holds true for countries with different levels of human development and income, as well as for different regions. We also find that aid has a small positive impact on investment, but a significant negative impact on domestic savings (crowding out) and the real exchange rate (appreciation)."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/j.1540-5982.2011.01696.x"],["dc.identifier.uri","http://hdl.handle.net/2/14777"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.title","Does foreign aid really raise per capita income? A time series perspective"],["dc.title.alternative","Est‐ce que l’aide étrangère augmente vraiment le revenu per capita? Une approche par les séries chronologiques."],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","389"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","World Development"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","396"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","70"],["dc.contributor.author","Herzer, Dierk"],["dc.contributor.author","Nowak-Lehmann, Felicitas"],["dc.contributor.author","Dreher, Axel"],["dc.contributor.author","Klasen, Stephan"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-05-21T19:52:57Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-05-21T19:52:57Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","In Nowak-Lehmann et al. (2012), we used time-series methods to investigate the impact of aid on per capita GDP. Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (LMT, 2014) criticize our econometric approach, our interpretation, and our data-handling procedure which lead to a large share of missing observations in some specifications. Using a different time-series approach, a different aid variable, and a different sample, they claim to find a positive effect of aid on income, which contrasts with our own results. In this comment, we first explain why we disagree with LMT’s critique of our econometric method and show that our results do not depend on our way of dealing with missing data. Second, we show that the methods used by LMT are unsuitable and rely on similarly problematic data-handling procedures. Supplementing their approach with appropriate cointegration and causality tests shows that there is no robust effect of aid on income."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.06.012"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/14701"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.title","Comment on Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (2014)"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]