Katharina Michaelowa
Biographic Data
| ID | 2480203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina Michaelowa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Michaelowa |
| SIGNATURE | MICHAELOWA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0317-209X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
China in Africa
The Politics of Double Delegation in the European Union
Many international organizations channel financial contributions of their member countries through other international organizations to implement their programs and activities. In this context, the second step of the delegation chain is often costly and—at least seemingly—an easily avoidable duplication of a previous one. We examine the puzzling phenomenon of double delegation in the context of European aid. We argue that governments engage in do…
Aid Fragmentation and Effectiveness
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank
The rapid growth of trust funds at multilateral development organizations has been widely neglected in the academic literature. We examine sovereign donors' choices among various trust fund options and contend that the choice among the different trust funds involves a fundamental trade-off: larger funds provide donors with “burden-sharing” benefits, but each donor can better assert its individual preferences in a fund with fewer other donors. The…
The growing influence of the UNFCCC Secretariat on the clean development mechanism
Transnational Climate Governance Initiatives
The Paris Agreement of December 2015 set a highly ambitious target for global climate change mitigation, but it remains unclear how it will be reached, and the individual countries’ pledges do not add up to the overall target. Can transnational climate governance initiatives be expected to fill the gap? We assess 109 such initiatives based on four design criteria: existence of mitigation targets; incentives for mitigation; definition of a baselin…
Aid Modalities Matter
Many argue that autocratic regimes allocate revenues from foreign aid with the aim of stabilizing their rule rather than serving economic and social development. However, donors often condition foreign aid on reforms in recipient states. We argue that when those conditions for reform focus on participative processes and government accountability, they positively affect democratization. We evaluate our claim based on different types of World Bank …
Making aid work for education in developing countries
This paper examines the effect of education aid on primary enrolment and education quality. Using the most recent data on aid disbursements and econometric specifications inspired by the general aid effectiveness literature, we find some evidence that donors’ increase in funding has substantially contributed to the successful increase in enrolment over the last 15 years. The most robust effect is obtained by aid for education facilities and train…
Off-Farm Labor Supply and Correlated Shocks
We offer new conceptual insights into the understanding of occupational choice in uncertain rural environments, with a focus on its ex ante (before a shock) and ex post (after a shock) consequences for farmers belonging to different portions of the asset distribution. We model theoretically the choice between relatively safe subsistence farming, higher return but higher risk cash crop activities, and off-farm labor—conditional on preexisting asse…
Constructed peer groups and path dependence in international organizations
Shopping for Development
Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate Aid
What determines UN approval of greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in developing countries
The Effectiveness of Inputs in Primary Education
With SACMEQ and PASEC there are now two large data bases available on student achievement, socio-economic background and school and teacher characteristics in both anglophone and francophone sub-Saharan Africa. A joint analysis of PASEC and SACMEQ in a common education production function framework allows us to estimate the impact of educational inputs on student achievement in 21 sub-Saharan African countries and to compare our results with thos…
Can process conditionality enhance aid effectiveness
Why Hipc II Cannot be Explained on the Basis of Economic Theory ? A Response to Peter Hjertholm
The Political Economy of the Enhanced Hipc-Initiative
Primary Education Quality in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
Transnational Climate Governance Initiatives
The Paris Agreement of December 2015 set a highly ambitious target for global climate change mitigation, but it remains unclear how it will be reached, and the individual countries’ pledges do not add up to the overall target. Can transnational climate governance initiatives be expected to fill the gap? We assess 109 such initiatives based on four design criteria: existence of mitigation targets; incentives for mitigation; definition of a baselin…
Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate Aid
Primary Education Quality in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
China in Africa
Aid Fragmentation and Effectiveness
Shopping for Development
Making aid work for education in developing countries
This paper examines the effect of education aid on primary enrolment and education quality. Using the most recent data on aid disbursements and econometric specifications inspired by the general aid effectiveness literature, we find some evidence that donors’ increase in funding has substantially contributed to the successful increase in enrolment over the last 15 years. The most robust effect is obtained by aid for education facilities and train…
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank
The rapid growth of trust funds at multilateral development organizations has been widely neglected in the academic literature. We examine sovereign donors' choices among various trust fund options and contend that the choice among the different trust funds involves a fundamental trade-off: larger funds provide donors with “burden-sharing” benefits, but each donor can better assert its individual preferences in a fund with fewer other donors. The…
The Politics of Double Delegation in the European Union
Many international organizations channel financial contributions of their member countries through other international organizations to implement their programs and activities. In this context, the second step of the delegation chain is often costly and—at least seemingly—an easily avoidable duplication of a previous one. We examine the puzzling phenomenon of double delegation in the context of European aid. We argue that governments engage in do…
Constructed peer groups and path dependence in international organizations
The growing influence of the UNFCCC Secretariat on the clean development mechanism
Aid Modalities Matter
Many argue that autocratic regimes allocate revenues from foreign aid with the aim of stabilizing their rule rather than serving economic and social development. However, donors often condition foreign aid on reforms in recipient states. We argue that when those conditions for reform focus on participative processes and government accountability, they positively affect democratization. We evaluate our claim based on different types of World Bank …
Can process conditionality enhance aid effectiveness
What determines UN approval of greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in developing countries
The Political Economy of the Enhanced Hipc-Initiative
Off-Farm Labor Supply and Correlated Shocks
We offer new conceptual insights into the understanding of occupational choice in uncertain rural environments, with a focus on its ex ante (before a shock) and ex post (after a shock) consequences for farmers belonging to different portions of the asset distribution. We model theoretically the choice between relatively safe subsistence farming, higher return but higher risk cash crop activities, and off-farm labor—conditional on preexisting asse…
Primary Education Quality in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
The Political Economy of the Enhanced Hipc-Initiative
Why Hipc II Cannot be Explained on the Basis of Economic Theory ? A Response to Peter Hjertholm
Can process conditionality enhance aid effectiveness
The Effectiveness of Inputs in Primary Education
With SACMEQ and PASEC there are now two large data bases available on student achievement, socio-economic background and school and teacher characteristics in both anglophone and francophone sub-Saharan Africa. A joint analysis of PASEC and SACMEQ in a common education production function framework allows us to estimate the impact of educational inputs on student achievement in 21 sub-Saharan African countries and to compare our results with thos…
What determines UN approval of greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in developing countries
Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate Aid
Shopping for Development
Constructed peer groups and path dependence in international organizations
Making aid work for education in developing countries
This paper examines the effect of education aid on primary enrolment and education quality. Using the most recent data on aid disbursements and econometric specifications inspired by the general aid effectiveness literature, we find some evidence that donors’ increase in funding has substantially contributed to the successful increase in enrolment over the last 15 years. The most robust effect is obtained by aid for education facilities and train…
Off-Farm Labor Supply and Correlated Shocks
We offer new conceptual insights into the understanding of occupational choice in uncertain rural environments, with a focus on its ex ante (before a shock) and ex post (after a shock) consequences for farmers belonging to different portions of the asset distribution. We model theoretically the choice between relatively safe subsistence farming, higher return but higher risk cash crop activities, and off-farm labor—conditional on preexisting asse…
The growing influence of the UNFCCC Secretariat on the clean development mechanism
Transnational Climate Governance Initiatives
The Paris Agreement of December 2015 set a highly ambitious target for global climate change mitigation, but it remains unclear how it will be reached, and the individual countries’ pledges do not add up to the overall target. Can transnational climate governance initiatives be expected to fill the gap? We assess 109 such initiatives based on four design criteria: existence of mitigation targets; incentives for mitigation; definition of a baselin…
Aid Modalities Matter
Many argue that autocratic regimes allocate revenues from foreign aid with the aim of stabilizing their rule rather than serving economic and social development. However, donors often condition foreign aid on reforms in recipient states. We argue that when those conditions for reform focus on participative processes and government accountability, they positively affect democratization. We evaluate our claim based on different types of World Bank …
Aid Fragmentation and Effectiveness
Which Donors, Which Funds? Bilateral Donors' Choice of Multilateral Funds at the World Bank
The rapid growth of trust funds at multilateral development organizations has been widely neglected in the academic literature. We examine sovereign donors' choices among various trust fund options and contend that the choice among the different trust funds involves a fundamental trade-off: larger funds provide donors with “burden-sharing” benefits, but each donor can better assert its individual preferences in a fund with fewer other donors. The…
The Politics of Double Delegation in the European Union
Many international organizations channel financial contributions of their member countries through other international organizations to implement their programs and activities. In this context, the second step of the delegation chain is often costly and—at least seemingly—an easily avoidable duplication of a previous one. We examine the puzzling phenomenon of double delegation in the context of European aid. We argue that governments engage in do…
China in Africa
Economics (17 works) · International Development and Aid (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Business (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (8 works) · Developing country (7 works) · Public economics (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (5 works)