Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF): Recent submissions
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Media coverage and food commodities: Agricultural futures prices and volatility effects
(2017-10)We examine how media coverage of fluctuations in the price of agricultural commodities affects these prices and their volatility. We develop a unified empirical framework to analyze the media’s effects on both returns and ... -
Can social safety nets protect public health?: The effect of India’s workfare and foodgrain subsidy programmes on anaemia
(2017-10)Can large-scale social safety nets be nutrition sensitive even if they do not explicitly incorporate health and nutrition as programmatic goals? This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare ... -
An adverse social welfare consequence of a rich-to-poor income transfer: A relative deprivation approach
(2017-09)A transfer from a richer individual to a poorer one seems to be the most intuitive and straightforward way of reducing income inequality in a society. However, can such a transfer reduce the welfare of the society? We show ... -
A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation
(2017-09)We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order <em>p</em> . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive ... -
Food price spikes and volatility in local food markets in Nigeria
(2017-09)Beside the mixed evidences on transmission of international food price volatility to local markets and the desirability or otherwise of reliance on stabilisation policy to cushion the effects, very little is known about ... -
Indian food and welfare schemes: Scope for digitization towards cash transfers
(2017-08)The Indian Government has identified a unique opportunity in using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based solutions to streamline its inefficient, ineffective, and expensive subsidy operations. By bringing ... -
Child labor and conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan
(2017-07)We study the impact of conflict on both the extensive and the intensive margin of child labor in Afghanistan. We identify and test two main mechanisms. First, if conflict reduces a household income through a decline in ... -
A critical comparison of migration policies: Entry fee versus quota
(2017-07)We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill composition of the country’s workforce, and when the policy menu consists of an entry fee and a quota. We ... -
Wave after wave: Contagion risk from commodity markets
(2017-05)The aim of this study is to investigate the possible contagion risk coming from energy, food and metals commodity markets and to assess risk spillovers from biofuel to food commodity markets and from crude oil to food ... -
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 ...
