Dr. Daniel Neff

GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
Rothenbaumchaussee 32
20148 Hamburg
Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)40 - 42 88 74 27
Fax: +49 (0)40 - 410 79 45

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Biographische Angaben:

• Ph.D. (2009) in ‚Social Statistics', Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR) and Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester, GB; – Economic and Social Research Council Stipendiat (+3). Titel der Ph.D. Arbeit: "Subjective well-being, human capability and monetary poverty in rural Andhra Pradesh".
• M.A. (2004) in Development Studies (Research Training), IDPM, University of Manchester, GB.
• Vordiplom Sozialwissenschaften (2003), Universität Mannheim.
• Beruflicher Werdegang:

• Mitglied im GIGA Forschungsschwerpunkt 3
• FT-Sprecher "Lokale Akteure der Globaliserung: agency and responsiveness"

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen in Gremien:

• Human Development and Capabilities Association (HDCA)
• Development Studies Association (DSA, UK)

Gegenwärtige Forschungsthemen:

• Female labour force participation in rural India
• Subjective well-being
• Social policies in South Asia

Drittmittelprojekte:

• Development of the Young Lives school survey in India 2009/2010. Young Lives is located at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK.
  
• Research coordinator in the project "Employment, empowerment and living standard" in cooperation with the German Bank for Reconstruction (KfW), financed by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Publikationen:

• 2012: Adaptation, Subjective Well-being and Poverty: The Case of South India, in: Clark, D. A. (ed.), Adaptation, Poverty and Well-Being. (i.E.)

• 2012 (mit Kunal Sen und Veronika Kling): The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women's Labor Force Participation in India: A Reexamination, GIGA Working Paper No 196, May 2012, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2011 (mit Armando Barrientos): Attitudes to chronic poverty in the global village, Social Indicators Research, 100, 1, 101-115

• 2011 (mit Jivanta Schöttli): Korruption in Indien – Anzeichen für einen Wandel zum Besseren?, GIGA Focus Asien, Nr. 4/2011, Hamburg: GIGA (pdf)

• 2010: Exploring the Meaningfulness and Relevance of Subjective Well-being for India, in: Indian Journal of Human Development, 2010/4/2, 329-350

• 2010 (mit Sandra Destradi und Gertraud Beck): Neue Bundesstaaten in Indien – eine Gefahr für die nationale Einheit? GIGA Focus Asien, Nr. 9/2010, Hamburg: GIGA (pdf)

• 2010 (mit Joachim Betz): Kinderarmut hat Langzeitwirkung. Zu Umfang und Ursachen in Entwicklungsländern, GIGA Focus Global, Nr. 8/2010, Hamburg, GIGA (pdf)

• 2010 (mit Armando Barrientos): Attitudes to Chronic Poverty in the “Global Village”, GIGA Working Paper No 134, May 2010, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)

• 2009: The satisfied poor: Evidence from South India, Brooks World Poverty Research Institute, Working Paper Series, No. 71, University of Manchester

• 2007: Subjective Well-Being, Poverty and Ethnicity in South Africa: Insights From An Exploratory Analysis, Social Indicators Research, 2007/80/2, 313-341, DOI: 10.1007/s11205-005-5920-x

• 2007 (mit W. Olsen): Subjective well-being measures and the underlying differentiated reality, Methodological Innovations Online, 2007/2/2 (Full article)

• 2007 (mit W. Olsen): Informal Agricultural Work, Habitus and Practices in an Indian Context, Global Poverty Research Group, Working Paper GPRG-WPS-079, The University of Manchester

• 2005 (mit J. Tomlinson, W. Olsen, K. Purdam und S. Mehta): Examining the Potential for Women Returners to Work in Areas of High Occupational Gender Segregation, Final Report to the Department of Trade and Industry, Women and Equality Unit, London

• 2004 (with Sabine Sczesny, Janine Bosak und Birgit Schyns): Gender Stereotyping and the attribution of leadership traits. A cross cultural comparison, in: Sex Roles, 2004/51/11-12, 631-645, DOI: 10.1007/s11199-004-0715-0

Vorträge (Auswahl):

• "Beyond redistribution: Household Over-indebtness in Southern Countries" (mit Olsen, W.), Processes, practices and meanings, IEDES, Paris. Workshop: From debt to over-indebtedness, Dezember 2009

• "Critical realism and fuzzy set QCA", UK-Japan Rountable meeting on Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Hokkaido University, Japan, August 2009

• "Fuzzy sets", UK.Workshop on Fuzzy set causal analysis, Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester, Mai 2009

• "A sociological view on the relationship between capabilities and functionings", Human Development and Capabilities Association 2008, New Delhi, India, September 2008

• "Operationalising the capability approach: Reconsidering the relationship between capabilities and functionings", Institute for Applied Economics (IAW), Tübingen, Germany, Juli 2008

• "Adaptation, poverty and subjective well-being: The case of South India", Global Poverty Research Group conference, University of Manchester, UK, Juli 2007

• "An exploratory analysis of subjective well-being, human capability and monetary poverty in South Africa using multiple correspondence analysis" (mit W. Olsen), Development Studies Association conference, Harrogate, UK, Juli 2005

• "Subjective well-being measures and the underlying differentiated reality among India's people" (mit W. Olsen), British Sociological Association, Milton Keynes, UK, Juli 2006

Artikel in den Medien:

• Korruptionsaffäre legt Indiens Parlament lahm - Regierung verweigert Untersuchungsausschuss zur Vergabe von Mobilfunklizenzen
  Interview (Financial Times Deutschland, November 23, 2010)