Michael Gerard Grimm is an American politician and convicted felon, who represented New York in the United States Congress from 2011 to 2015 until his conviction and resignation from Congress. A First Step up the Energy Ladder? In 2010, singer-songwriter Michael Grimm took the crown on America's Got Talent Season 5 along with a record contract and the $1 million prize. We base our analysis on an econometric analysis of the village survey in the STORMA region as well as qualitative evidence generated in the project area. We estimate the effect of crime on business ownership and performance using a matched dataset of census, survey and police data. University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Development economics conference, Bordeaux, Key-note Speaker, IZA-World Bank conference on Employment and Development, Delhi, WIDER/UNU Conference on Inequality, Helsinki, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Genf, 19 Oct 2011, National TV Mali, Secteur Informel au Mali – défis et opportunités. Whereas life expectancy continues to increase in most industrialized countries, many developing and transition countries are Anmeldung unter Angabe der Skype-Adresse (oder Telefonnummer) bitte per Email an, of the Research committee for ‘Development Economics’ of the German Economic Association (VfS), Master International Economics and Business, School of Business, Economics and Information Systems, Research committee for ‘Development Economics’. Sorry, you need to be a researcher to join ResearchGate. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. made possible by more and better data, in particular longitudinal data and data that in Côte d'Ivoire. This paper investigates the effects of inequality in health on economic growth in low and middle income countries. The empirical part of the paper uses an original cross-national panel data set covering 62 low and middle income countries over the period 1985 to 2007. Pro-poor growth in Burkina Faso. Given that linkage methods can influence the resulting poverty and income distribution effects, understanding the benefits and costs of various linkages is important. Environment for Development Centers. This part also discusses the distortionary effects and distributional consequences of IPR protection a... Summary One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries. Because most employment in low and middle income countries is in micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment creat... Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. Stephan Klasen is considered one of the most distinguished scholars on gender economics in the 21st century. Sharing is a norm in many societies. Michael Grimm presented his findings and challenges related to the measurement and analysis of pro-poor growth, drawing on a separate series of case studies collected in Michael Grimm, Stephan Klasen and Andrew McKay (ed.s), 'Determinants of Pro-Poor Growth: Analytical Issues and Findings from Country Cases' (World Bank/Palgrave Macmillan, January 2007). However, many anthropologists emphasize that some forms of social networks, such as kinship ties can also have adverse effects because such ties... Around 3 billion people in developing countries rely on woodfuels for their daily cooking needs with profound negative implications for their workload, health, and budget as well as the environment. Michael Grimm is professor of Development Economics at the University of Passau, a research fellow at the RWI–Leibniz Institute for Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany. Compared to its neighbors, Sri Lanka performs well in terms of health. This article investigates the evolution of urban poverty in its various dimensions in Côte d'Ivoire since the 1980s. Moreover, he presides over the Development Economics Committee of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), one of the largest professional economics associations in Europe. He shares the overall responsibility of the project with Prof. Padmanabhan and leads the working package on the determinants of adoption of organic farming practices and socio-economic impacts. Read more Download PDF [0.1 MB] 2012 This article examines the dynamics of the informal sector in Madagascar during the 1995-2004 period, which was characterized by sustained growth that ended due to a major political crisis. Grimm, a Mississippi Southern Soul singer who won the $1 million AGT first prize in its 5th season, used some of his winnings to build his grandparents a new house. ?te d'Ivoire, Spatial Inequalities Explained : Evidence from Burkina Faso, Food Price Inflation and Children's Schooling, Coton et pauvreté en Afrique de l’Ouest : analyse comparée des conditions de vie des ménages au Mali et au Burkina Faso, of LaborGeography vs. Institutions at the Village Level, Measuring Pro-Poor Growth When Relative Prices Shift, The Measurement of Income Distribution Dynamics when Demographics are correlated with Income, Removing the Anonymity Axiom in Assessing Pro-Poor Growth, Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Reassessment of the Paradox. In order to... An equitable distribution of health care use, distributed according to people’s needs We argue that nonbranded products have already reached households; hence access is not an issue, at least for richer households. The direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational choices and household com... We develop a demo-economic micro-simulation model able to simulate over a fifteen years period the impact of AIDS on household and individual incomes. Netherlands, with a focus on the medium and long term effects of these Professor of Economics at the School of Global Policy & Strategy, co-director of the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab, University of California, San Diego. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. Michael Grimm & Kenneth Harttgen & Stephan Klasen & Mark Misselhorn, 2007. ', 31 May 2015, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 'Das afrikanische Wunder', 6 June 2015, Radio Bayern 2, Das ist der Gipfel! Lack of knowledge about risk differentials regarding AIDS seriously hampers the study of the economic impact of AIDS in developing countries, at both the macro- and micro-economic levels. The study shows that the dynamic of poverty in terms of existence conditions can significantly differ fro... Microsimulation constitutes a particularly powerful instrument for evaluating the distributive impact of macro-economic shocks. This paper revisits this hypothesis. Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises? Total downloads of all papers by Michael Grimm. Hence, we suggest simple methods which are able to... We show how to account for differentials in demographic variables, in particular mortality, when performing welfare comparisons over time. As conventionally assumed by simple dualistic models, the informal sector indeed fulfils a labor-absorbing function in times of crisis. Geography vs. institutions at the village level, Francois Bourguignon , Francisco H. G. Ferreira , and Nora Lustig . Analysis is often plagued by incomplete data and a general lack of information. Due to our privacy policy, only current members can send messages to people on ResearchGate. Michael Grimm is professor of Development Economics at the University of Passau, a research fellow at the RWI–Leibniz Institute for Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany. Thesis title: “On Institutional persistence” (supervisors: Prof. Robin Cowan and Eleonora Nillesen, degree committee: Marie Claire Villeval, Martin Strobel, Michael Grimm, Théophile Azumahou). The empirical Usual measures employed to compare welfare over time and space fail to The World Food Programme assumed that about 2.1 to 3.2 million people were threatened of starvation at that time. 1985 to 2007. Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm, Chairman – Research Group on Development Economics Call for Papers German Development Economics Conference (GDE) (previously AEL conference) Annual International Conference of the German Economic Association Research Group on Development Economics U.S. Marine, Former FBI Special Agent, and Small Businessman Member of Congress, 2011-2015 Read more Download PDF [1.1 MB] 2013 Electricity Access and the Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises: Evidence from West Africa With Michael Grimm and Jann Lay. Michael Grimm, Luciane Lenz, Jörg Peters, and Maximiliane Sievert . Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda, Does forced Solidarity Hamper Entrepreneurial Activity? The simulations replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. We suggest a methodology which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. They were therefore misleading Higher educated women were more likely to become inactive, but returned to work also more easily, especially when they added work experience. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these micro-breweries and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on private households as well as the environmental effect. part of the paper uses an original cross-national panel data set covering 62 low and middle income countries over the period This paper investigates the patterns of capital entry barriers and capital returns in informal micro and small enterprises (MSEs) using a unique micro dataset for seven West African countries. Evidence From Indonesia, Beer, Wood, and Welfare ‒ The Impact of Improved Stove Use Among Dolo-Beer Breweries, Migration Pressure, Tenure Security, and Agricultural Intensification: Evidence from Indonesia, Why Do Households Forego High Returns from Technology Adoption? This paper investigates the effects of inequality in health on economic growth in low and middle income countries. Electricity for the poor’. The theoretical literature on pro-poor growth as well as its application has not paid sufficient attention to the issue of varying inflation rates across the income distribution. It might be difficult to believe, but Grimm got his first singing job when he … Michael Grimm, Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen, and Mark Misselhorn, 2006. Helmets can provide efficient protection, but many drivers do not use them. Michael Grimm was born in 1970s. This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 and 2 years, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against disease and their likelihood of receiving a nutritious diet. Over the past 25 years, he has tirelessly worked to understand the complex phenomena of gender inequality: From counting the number of missing women in the world and shedding light on why women go missing, to showing that leaving girls out o... High hopes are pinned on market-based dissemination of off-grid technologies to complement expensive grid extension in providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries. The adoption of fo... Around 3 billion people in developing countries rely on woodfuels for their daily cookingneeds with profound negative implications for their workload, health, and budget as wellas the environment. This article explores the determinants of road traffic crash fatalities in India. An Analysis of Monetary Poverty and Deprivation Over 15 Years of Household Data, Modéliser les trajectoires démo économiques des individus et des ménages dans un pays en développement à l'aide d'un modèle de microsimulation dynamique, Application pour la Côte d'Ivoire, The distribution of AIDS over the population in Africa Hypothesis building from individual answers to a Demographic and Health Survey with an application to Côte d'Ivoire, What Has Happened to the Urban Population in Côte d'Ivoire since the Eighties? and led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth–Poverty Paradox’, i.e., increasing poverty despite sustained macro-economic growth Our analysis integrates recent empirical approaches that have focused on the returns to capital in MSEs into a dynamic perspective. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers 155, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research. Indeed we find that users of a very simple ICS in urban BurkinaF... Worldwide, 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Michael Grimm, a powerhouse of soul, this man delivers a powerful soul voice while tearing away at the guitar. However, relatively little is known about the extent to which this principle Evidence for rural Sub-Saharan Africa. The food crisis encountered in 2002 in Malawi was arguably one of the worst in the recent history of the country. Professor Michael Grimm holds the Chair of Development Economics of the University of Passau since 2012 and is Dean of the School of Business, Economics and Information Systems. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(4): 827-846. 11 Sep 2014, The Broker, 'Small firms can create jobs!'. This paper examines the recent decentralization of governance in Indonesia and its impact on local infrastructure provision. International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Sorbonne Institute of Development Studies (IEDES), Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda. This paper investigates the patterns of capital entry barriers into informal activities and capital returns in a number of Sub-Saharan African economies using a unique micro data set on informality covering seven West-African countries. We distinguish the direct effect of mortality, i.e. Previous poverty assessments of Burkina Faso neglected some important methodological issues. This paper focuses on approaches to linking macroeconomic models to household income data for poverty and distributional analysis. Discover what happened on this day. University students and faculty, institute members, and independent researchers, Technology or product developers, R&D specialists, and government or NGO employees in scientific roles, Health care professionals, including clinical researchers, Journalists, citizen scientists, or anyone interested in reading and discovering research. We focus on helmet use behavior among motorbike... We analyze various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility in Indonesia, using a district difference-in-difference approach. of renewable energy and development programmes supported by the Grimm auditioned in Los Angeles for the fifth season of America's Got Talent aired on June 1, 2010. A k... Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. progra... Over the past two decades poverty research has focused in particular on poverty Evidence from Seven West-African Countries, Does forced solidarity hamper entrepreneurial activity? An original panel data set covering 25 Indian states is analyzed using multivar... – Previous research has shown that in many low and middle income countries micro and Lack of knowledge about differential AIDS mortality seriously hampers the study of the economic impact of AIDS in developing countries. and constant inequality. Given that in particular the active population accounts for these fatalities, the potential economic implications are large, on the micro and the macro level. The model is implemented using a rich set of Ivorian surveys. This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Cˆote d’Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing the in-depth analysis of simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of income: a change in the remuneration rates of observed and unobserved earnings determinants, a change... Proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d'Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing in-depth analysis of the evolution of the distribution of income. He is also a research professor at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin and … We find substantial wood savings amo... Today, it is widely recognized that social networks are an important determinant for entrepreneurial success, in particular in a context in which capital, labour and insurance market imperfections prevail. Germany. Using a representative panel data set for Andhra Pradesh, India, we explore the average and marginal profitability of holding cattle. michael.grimm@uni-passau.de. Evidence from Improved Cook Stoves in Burkina Faso, Do interventions targeted at micro-entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized firms create jobs? Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. dynamics—over the course of a life and generations - and on multi-dimensional, The decentralization of decisionmaking power to local jurisdictions in Indonesia may have improved the matching of public infrastructures provision with local preferences. We explore 94032 Passau Email: michael.grimm(at)uni-passau.de Germany Room: 1.58 BIRTH Offenbach am Main, Germany, 1971 CITIZENSHIP German LANGUAGES SKILLS German (native) ... Economics of Education Review, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. This paper investigates the dynamics of the informal sector in Madagascar during a period of fragile growth. The 1970s were a "pivot of change", it was an era of economic struggle, cultural change, and technological innovation. The interplay between fertility decisions and per capita growth of income by investment decisions in human capital constitutes the key element of growth models based on the microeconomic theory of family behavior. Various hypotheses concerning the evolution of returns to education and labour dema... We compare three approaches to linking macro models with representative households and micro household income data in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. This article analyzes the determinants of the capital stocks of MSEs in poor economies focusing on credit constraints and risk. Professor Michael Grimm. Consultant , World Bank, Washington D.C., USA, Macroeconomics and Poverty Assessment Skills Program, 2003. All suggested measures have in common that they are based on the anonymity axiom. Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. An econometric analysis of poverty complements the analysis. Our main result is that aid has a statistically significant negative effect on private investment. This paper provides a survey on studies that analyze the macroeconomic effects of intellectual property rights (IPR). The purpose of our paper is to derive instructive analytics on how to account for differentials in demographic variables, in particular mortal-ity, when performing welfare comparisons over time. worldwide. Does inequality in health impede economic growth? © 2008-2021 ResearchGate GmbH. It belongs to a series of impact evaluations The idea is to ap-ply various ways of 'correcting' estimated income distribution measures for 'sample selection' due to differential mortality. European Journal of Development Research, 25: 815-829. Michael Grimm is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Passau, Germany. The empirical evidence shows that in developing countries illness shocks can have a severe impact on household income. whether forced solidarity, i.e. This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming through agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle, as stressed in recent works. We find that although the size of the economy Why Do Some Bikers Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? abusive demands by the family and kin hin... We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. 2018 Ph.D. in Economics, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University (the Netherlands). In addition to income, the analysis considers the sociodemographic population structure, motorization levels, road and health infrastructure and road rule enforcement as potential factors. 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