Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Recent submissions
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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia: Evidence from farm panel data
(2017-04)The majority of the youth in Ethiopia live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of livelihood. Using gender- and age-specific values of agricultural labor return (shadow wages), we systematically analyse ... -
One-off subsidies and long-run adoption: Experimental evidence on improved cooking stoves in Senegal Bonn
(2017-04)Free distribution of a technology can be an effective development policy instrument if its adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by affordability constraints. Improved cookstoves may be such a case: they generate ... -
The impacts of household water quality testing and information on safe water behaviors: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
(2017-03)Households in developing countries face an enormous set of health risks from using contaminated water sources. In 2014, a group of 512 households relying on unimproved water, sanitation and hygiene practices in the Greater ... -
Global integration and world migration
(2017-02)This paper explores the following chain of conjectures: rising use of the internet, the widespread access to global information, and intensified communication between regions and countries brought about, for example, by ... -
Demand for off-grid solar electricity: Experimental evidence from Rwanda
(2017-02)Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present ... -
Migration when social preferences are ordinal: Steady state population distribution, and social welfare
(2017-02)This paper adds three dimensions to the received literature: it models migration when the individuals’ preferences regarding their relative income are ordinal, it works out the resulting spatial steady state distribution ... -
On the train to brain gain in rural China
(2017-01)This study investigates the well-researched relationship between migration and the formation of human capital in the source region using a novel instrument: the existence of a local train station. We make use of Chinese ... -
A journey through the history of commodity derivatives markets and the political economy of (de)regulation
(2018-12)The present study examines the dynamics and regulatory regimes of commodity derivatives markets through time. The historical perspective allows to identify the reasons behind the use of derivatives and the impact of changing ... -
Community cohesion and assimilation equilibria
(2018-11)We study the assimilation behavior of a group of migrants who live in a city populated by native inhabitants. We conceptualize the group as a community, and the city as a social space. Assimilation increases the productivity ... -
How admitting migrants with any skills can help overcome a shortage of workers with particular skills
(2018-11)A country that experiences a shortage of workers with particular skills naturally considers two responses: import skills or produce them. Skill import may result in large-scale migration, which will not be to the liking ... -
Behavior in reverse: Reasons for return migration
(2018-07)Received research shows numerous motives for migration, but fewer reasons for return migration. This paper aims to correct this imbalance. Twelve reasons for return migration are presented and discussed briefly. The reasons ... -
Governance of the bioeconomy: A global comparative study of national bioeconomy strategies
(2018-07)More than forty states worldwide currently pursue explicit political strategies to expand and promote their bioeconomies. This paper assesses these strategies in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals ... -
On the taxing of migrants’ earnings while retaining a migrant workforce
(2018-07)We study policies that are aimed at retaining a migrant workforce in a Gulf State while introducing a tax on migrant earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and ... -
Can big companies’ initiatives to promote mechanization benefit small farms in Africa?: A case study from Zambia
(2018-06)After many years of neglect, there is a renewed interest in agricultural mechanization in Africa. Since government initiatives to promote mechanization, e.g., by importing and subsidizing tractors, are confronted with major ... -
On structural change, the social stress of a farming population, and the political economy of farm support
(2018-05)A rationale for providing support to the farm sector in the course of economic development and structural change is a growing gap between the incomes of non-agricultural workers and the incomes of farmers. Drawing on a ... -
An adverse social welfare effect of a doubly gainful trade
(2018-05)Acknowledging individuals’ distaste for low relative income renders trade less appealing when trade is viewed as a technology that integrates economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a “trembling ... -
On social preferences and the intensity of risk aversion
(2018-05)We study the relative risk aversion of an individual with particular social preferences: his wellbeing is influenced by his relative wealth, and by how concerned he is about having low relative wealth. Holding constant the ... -
Gender specific perspectives among smallholder farm households on water-energy-food security nexus issues in Ethiopia
(2018-05)The water-energy-food security nexus concept is a widely recognized analytical approach to consider and achieve sustainable development goals. However, the water-energy-food security nexus concept has mostly been analyzed ... -
Determinants of household’s modern cooking and lighting energy transition in rural India: Exploring household’s activities and its interactions with other households
(2018-03)The majority of rural Indian households remain dependent on unreliable, inefficient and harmful household energy technologies. Rural households make their energy decisions with respect to the Water-Energy-Food security ... -
Impacts of adaptation to climate change on farmers’ income in the Savana region of Togo
(2018-03)West African farmers are among those most likely to suffer from climate change, partly due to the agro-climatic characteristics of the regional system and to their limited scope for coping with shocks. Climate change ...
