Prof. Dr. Krisztina Kis-Katos

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Journal Articles

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2017

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Sjahrir, Bambang Suharnoko
  The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia
  2017 J Comp Econ, volume: 45, issue: 2, pages: 344 - 365

2015

• Jan Börner, Kis-Katos K, Jorge Hargrave, Konstantin König
  Post-Crackdown Effectiveness of Field-Based Forest Law Enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon
  2015 Plos One, volume: 10, issue: 4, supplement: e0121544
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  Regulatory enforcement of forest conservation laws is often dismissed as an ineffective approach to reducing tropical forest loss. Yet, effective enforcement is often a precondition for alternative conservation measures, such as payments for environmental services, to achieve desired outcomes. Fair and efficient policies to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) will thus crucially depend on understanding the determinants and requirements of enforcement effectiveness. Among potential REDD candidate countries, Brazil is considered to possess the most advanced deforestation monitoring and enforcement infrastructure. This study explores a unique dataset of over 15 thousand point coordinates of enforcement missions in the Brazilian Amazon during 2009 and 2010, after major reductions of deforestation in the region. We study whether local deforestation patterns have been affected by field-based enforcement and to what extent these effects vary across administrative boundaries. Spatial matching and regression techniques are applied at different spatial resolutions. We find that field-based enforcement operations have not been universally effective in deterring deforestation during our observation period. Inspections have been most effective in reducing large-scale deforestation in the states of Mato Grosso and Pará, where average conservation effects were 4.0 and 9.9 hectares per inspection, respectively. Despite regional and actor-specific heterogeneity in inspection effectiveness, field-based law enforcement is highly cost-effective on average and might be enhanced by closer collaboration between national and state-level authorities.
  
  
   
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• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Sparrow, Robert
  Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
  2015 J Dev Econ, volume: 117, pages: 94 - 106
  
   
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2014

• Sjahrir, Bambang S., Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Schulze, Günther G.
  Administrative Overspending in Indonesian Districts: The Role of Local Politics
  2014 World Dev, volume: 59, pages: 166 - 183
• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Liebert, Helge, Schulze, Günther G.
  On the Heterogeneity of Terror
  2014 Eur Econ Rev, volume: 68, pages: 116 - 136

2013

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Schulze, Günther G.
  Corruption in Southeast Asia: A Survey of Recent Research
  2013 Asian-pac Econ Lit, volume: 27, issue: 1, pages: 79 - 109
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  This paper surveys the empirical literature on corruption in Southeast Asia with a focus on the methodological approach that the contributions take to identify the extent, determinants, and consequences of corruption and the remedies against it. We present the major topics that empirical corruption research has focused on and point out the methodological challenges that this line of research has to address. We discuss the empirical corruption studies on Southeast Asia and describe the empirical approach that they have taken.
• Hargrave, Jorge, Kis-Katos, Krisztina
  Economic Causes of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: A Panel Data Analysis for the 2000s
  2013 Environ Resour Econ, volume: 54, issue: 4, pages: 471 - 494
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  We use under-explored municipality level datasets to assess the recent economic and policy determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We estimate yearly panel data models (from 2002 to 2009) for 663 municipalities in the region. The results show that recent deforestation is increasing with economic activity and is also affected by economic incentives, measured by fluctuations in agricultural product and wood prices. Moreover, we document that the increasing enforcement efforts of the Brazilian environmental police (IBAMA) were effective in reducing deforestation rates.
• Sjahrir, Bambang S., Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Schulze, Günther G.
  Political Budget Cycles in Indonesia at the District Level
  2013 Econ Lett, volume: 120, issue: 2, pages: 342 - 345
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  We find significant political budget cycles (PBCs) for Indonesian districts only for direct, not for indirect, elections. PBCs are significantly stronger if the incumbent runs for reelection. They are well identified due to the exogenously different timing of elections.

2012

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina
  Gender Differences in Work-Schooling Decisions in Rural North India
  2012 Rev Econ Household, volume: 10, issue: 4, pages: 491 - 519
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  Based on a rural sample of North Indian children and adolescents, this paper addresses the determinants of participation in work and schooling. The empirical model includes market and domestic work as separate alternatives to schooling in a trivariate probit framework, allowing also for combinations of these activities as well as idleness. This differentiation sheds new light on gender differences in the work-school decisions in North India. While more traditional determinants (like wealth or parental education) mostly affect the trade-off between schooling and the gender specific work activity (market work for boys and domestic work for girls), monetary incentives (wages and schooling costs) are more closely related to market work for both sexes. Girls are also more likely to work for the market if their economic contribution can be made within the family (for instance if the household owns animals). Proxies for cultural factors turn out to play especially a role for participation in the gender non-specific work activities; for instance, overall female labor force participation shifts girls’ activities from domestic towards market work.
  
  
   
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2011

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Sparrow, Robert
  Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
  2011 J Hum Resour, volume: 46, issue: 4, pages: 722 - 749
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  We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia, identifying geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers, from 1993 to 2002. The results suggest that increased exposure to trade liberalization is associated with a decrease in child work among the 10–15 year olds. The effects of tariff reductions are strongest for children from low-skill backgrounds, older siblings, and in rural areas. Favorable income effects for the poor, induced by trade liberalization, are likely to be the dominating effects underlying these results.
• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Schulze, Günther G.
  Child Labour in Indonesian Small Industries
  2011 J Dev Stud, volume: 47, issue: 12, pages: 1887 - 1908
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  We analyse the geographic incidence of child labour in small manufacturing firms in Indonesia at the village level. Our unique data set covers virtually all Indonesian villages and urban neighbourhoods; it allows us to distinguish between demand and supply side determinants of child labour. We show by correcting for sample selection that a number of counterintuitive results – child labour being unaffected by credit access and school proximity – are the result of an interplay between supply and demand side determinants. Credit access and school proximity reduce child labour supply, but simultaneously constitute positive location factors for firms thereby increasing the demand for child labourers. To effectively reduce child labour, growth oriented policies, such as enhancing school and credit facilities, should be complemented by policies specifically geared towards increasing school attendance.
• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Liebert, Helge, Schulze, Günther G.
  On the Origin of Domestic and International Terrorism
  2011 Eur J Polit Econ, volume: 27, supplement: 1, pages: 17 - 36
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  We analyze the determinants of the origin of domestic and international terrorism in a large panel data set of 159 countries spanning from 1970 to 2007. We show that terror increases with GDP per capita, a higher polity score measuring a more open and competitive political system and experiences of domestic conflict, anarchy and regime transitions. Our evidence thus contradicts the notion that terrorism is rooted in economic deprivation or that strongly autocratic regimes breed more terrorists. Rather we show that weak or failing states are an incubator for terrorism. We also show that the causes of domestic terror and international terror are similar.

2009

• Czaika, Mathias, Kis-Katos, Krisztina
  Civil Conflict and Displacement - Village-Level Determinants of Forced Migration in Aceh
  2009 J Peace Res, volume: 46, issue: 3, pages: 399 - 418
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  The purpose of this article is to identify the determinants of displacement behavior based on various push and pull factors at the village level. The study concentrates on changes in village population during three years of civil conflict (1999—2002) in Aceh, Indonesia. The empirical analysis is based on a unique dataset from two census rounds of the Indonesian Village Potential Census (PODES). It uses data on around 5,200 Acehnese villages and relates village-level population change to conflict variables, geographic patterns, and traditional socio-economic determinants of migration. By applying quantile regressions, the push (outflow) factors and the pull (inflow) determinants of migration can also be distinguished. The authors identify the following factors as the main determinants of the Aceh migration pattern in this period. First, conflict clashes induced large rearrangements of the population between villages in highly affected districts, as well as strong village emigration from the geographically remote regions in Central Aceh towards the less conflict-affected coastal industrial areas. Besides conflict factors, an (ongoing) rural—urban migration process, driven by socio-economic factors, has taken place during the conflict period. Second, there is also evidence that security considerations, such as the presence of police in a village or neighborhood, were either emigration-reducing or immigration-inducing. Third, although the presence of ethnic Javanese has not been a primary cause of conflict incidence, their intimidation by the rebel movement has led to a significant outflow, primarily from conflict-affected villages in Central Aceh. These results reveal that, beside a conflict-induced fear of violence, population movements in Aceh have also been an outcome of traditional migration determinants.

2007

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina
  Does Globalization Reduce Child Labor?
  2007 The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, volume: 16, issue: 1, pages: 71 - 92
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  This paper considers the effects of trade liberalization on child labor that arises out of subsistence needs. It argues that favorable income effects are most likely to reduce the need for child labor in the South, even when export goods have a necessity character. However, in very poor economies, aggregate hours of child labor can also increase as a result of more open trade. Although the poorest families are the ones who benefit the most from trade in a Heckscher – Ohlin setting, their income gains might not be high enough to make them withdraw their children from work, while adverse income effects can raise the incidence of child labor among the less poor. The paper provides empirical support for the argument by finding that in a country panel, increases in trade openness are associated with significantly smaller reductions in child labor among the poorest food exporters than among food exporters on average.

Books

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2010

• Faculty for Economics and Behavioral Sciences
  Globalization and Child Labor
  Kis-Katos, Krisztina

Book chapters

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2014

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Schulze, Günther G.
  Context-Specificity of Economic Research: The Example of Corruption Research in Southeast Asia
  In: Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies
  2014, Palgrave, Huotari, M., J. Rüland and J. Schlehe, pages: 187 - 210, Huotari, M., J. Rüland and J. Schlehe,

2009

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Schulze, Günther G.
  Chapter 23. Regulation of Child Labor
  In: Globalization and Free Trade
  2009, Edward Elgar, Booth, Philip; Wellings, Richard, Booth, Philip; Wellings, Richard, ISBN: 978 1 84844 575 8

Other publications

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2014

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Sjahrir, Bambang S.
  The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 25, 2014
• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Sjahrir, Bambang S.
  The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia
  IZA DP No. 7884, Bonn, 2014

2013

• Sjahrir, Bambang S., Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Schulze, Günther G.
  Administrative Overspending in Indonesian Districts: The Role of Local Politics
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 24, 2013
• Sjahrir, Bambang S., Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Schulze, Günther G.
  Political Business Cycles in Local Indonesia
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 23, 2013
• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Sparrow, Robert
  Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
  IZA DP No. 7645, IZA, Bonn, 2013

2012

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Liebert, Helge, Schulze, Günther G.
  On the Heterogeneity of Terror
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 19, 2012
• Cisneros, Elias, Hargrave, Jorge, Kis-Katos, Krisztina
  Unintended Consequences of Anti-Corruption Strategies: Evidence from Public Fiscal Audits in the Brazilian Amazon.
  Working Paper, 2012

2011

• Hargrave, Jorge, Kis-Katos, Krisztina
  Economic Causes of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: A Panel Data Analysis for the 2000s
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 17, 2011

2010

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Liebert, Helge, Schulze, Günther G.
  On the Origin of Domestic and International Terrorism
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 12, 2010

2009

• Kis-Katos, Krisztina, Sparrow, Robert
  Child Work and Schooling Under Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 8, 2009

2008

• Czaika, Mathias, Kis-Katos, Krisztina
  Civil Conflict and Displacement: Village-Level Determinants of Forced Migration in Aceh
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 4, 2008