Simon Lange
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Lange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lange |
| SIGNATURE | LANGE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Livestock as a Buffer Stock in Poorly Integrated Markets
Livestock holdings in rural areas of the West African semiarid tropics are often substantial, yet the evidence for livestock sales in response to shocks is mixed. This paper revisits farm households’ ability to cope with adverse shocks via livestock sales. Based on data covering Burkina Faso’s 2004 drought, we find that livestock sales increase significantly in response to drought, with households citing the need to finance food consumption. At t…
The Labor Market and Poverty in Sudan
Using the most recent household survey \n data, this paper examines the characteristics of Sudan’s \n labor market as it relates to poverty outcomes. Several \n important aspects of the labor market are analyzed, \n including the relationship between labor market indicators \n and the demographic structure of the population, geographic \n location, education, and gender. It highlights the \n significant differences in labor market outcomes depend…
Small Area Estimation of Poverty under Structural Change
Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more recent survey are available and predictors and structural parameters are subject t…
Semiotic resources for navigation
This paper describes two typical semiotic resources blind people use when navigating in urban areas. Everyone makes use of a variety of interpretive semiotic resources and senses when navigating. For sighted individuals, this especially involves sight. Blind people, however, must rely on everything else than sight, thereby substituting sight with other modalities and distributing the navigational work to other semiotic resources. Based on a large…
How the New International Goal for Child Mortality is Unfair to Sub-Saharan Africa (Again)
Semiotic resources for navigation
This paper describes two typical semiotic resources blind people use when navigating in urban areas. Everyone makes use of a variety of interpretive semiotic resources and senses when navigating. For sighted individuals, this especially involves sight. Blind people, however, must rely on everything else than sight, thereby substituting sight with other modalities and distributing the navigational work to other semiotic resources. Based on a large…
How the New International Goal for Child Mortality is Unfair to Sub-Saharan Africa (Again)
Livestock as a Buffer Stock in Poorly Integrated Markets
Livestock holdings in rural areas of the West African semiarid tropics are often substantial, yet the evidence for livestock sales in response to shocks is mixed. This paper revisits farm households’ ability to cope with adverse shocks via livestock sales. Based on data covering Burkina Faso’s 2004 drought, we find that livestock sales increase significantly in response to drought, with households citing the need to finance food consumption. At t…
How the New International Goal for Child Mortality is Unfair to Sub-Saharan Africa (Again)
Small Area Estimation of Poverty under Structural Change
Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more recent survey are available and predictors and structural parameters are subject t…
Semiotic resources for navigation
This paper describes two typical semiotic resources blind people use when navigating in urban areas. Everyone makes use of a variety of interpretive semiotic resources and senses when navigating. For sighted individuals, this especially involves sight. Blind people, however, must rely on everything else than sight, thereby substituting sight with other modalities and distributing the navigational work to other semiotic resources. Based on a large…
The Labor Market and Poverty in Sudan
Using the most recent household survey \n data, this paper examines the characteristics of Sudan’s \n labor market as it relates to poverty outcomes. Several \n important aspects of the labor market are analyzed, \n including the relationship between labor market indicators \n and the demographic structure of the population, geographic \n location, education, and gender. It highlights the \n significant differences in labor market outcomes depend…
Livestock as a Buffer Stock in Poorly Integrated Markets
Livestock holdings in rural areas of the West African semiarid tropics are often substantial, yet the evidence for livestock sales in response to shocks is mixed. This paper revisits farm households’ ability to cope with adverse shocks via livestock sales. Based on data covering Burkina Faso’s 2004 drought, we find that livestock sales increase significantly in response to drought, with households citing the need to finance food consumption. At t…
Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Poverty (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agricultural economics (1 work)