Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF): Recent submissions
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Can a specially designed information intervention around the WASH-agriculture linkages make any difference?: Experimental evidence of behavioral changes and health impacts
(2016-04)This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of the specially designed packages of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions with <em>‘student brigades’</em> (student teams tasked with maintaining hygiene in ... -
Aspirations and income, food security and subjective well-being in rural Ethiopia
(2016-04)Despite some improvements in recent years, poverty and food insecurity remain widespread and the main challenges in Ethiopia. Using individual and household level data collected in rural Ethiopia, we examine if aspirations ... -
Can a concern for status reconcile diverse social welfare programs?
(2016-04)Let there be two individuals: “rich,” and “poor.” Due to inefficiency of the income redistribution policy, if a social planner were to tax the rich in order to transfer to the poor, only a fraction of the taxed income would ... -
Gender differences in climate change perceptions and adaptation strategies: an intra-household analysis from rural Kenya
(2016-03)It has been widely acknowledged that the effects of climate change are not gender neutral. However, existing studies on adaptation to climate change mainly focus on a comparison of male-headed and female-headed households. ... -
A generic model for analyzing nexus issues of households’ bioenergy use
(2016-01)Bioenergy is a major source of energy in developing countries. However, increasing demand for agricultural commodities can lead to a stronger competition for natural resources with the bioenergy production. The nexus among ... -
The effect of industrial cluster policy on firm performance in Ethiopia: Evidence from the leather footware cluster
(2016-01)This paper empirically analyzes the productivity, profitability, innovation and network effects of a public policy promoting micro and small scale industrial clusters in Ethiopia. To this end, firm-level survey data was ... -
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 ...
