Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF): Neuzugänge
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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 ... -
The global cropland footprint of the non-food bioeconomy
(2018-04)A rapidly growing share of global agricultural areas is devoted to the production of biomass for non-food purposes. The derived products include, for example, biofuels, textiles, detergents or cosmetics. Given the far-reaching ... -
Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
(2018-03)Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the ... -
Gender differentiation in intergenerational care-giving and migration choices
(2018-03)We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for ... -
Effects of food price spikes on household welfare in Nigeria
(2018-02)The dramatic global food price upsurges of 2007/2008 and the resurgence of 2010/2011 have kept the welfare effects of food price shocks at the epicentre of policy discussions worldwide. Studies have found heterogeneous ... -
An egg for an egg and a bean for a bean?: How production diversity determines dietary diversity of smallholder farmers in rural India
(2018-01)On-farm production diversity of smallholder farmers can improve the nutrition security of the household. The objective is to determine the significance and relevance of this relationship by considering the different degrees ... -
How much do infrastructural investments mitigate impacts of seasonal shocks on food security?
(2019-12)Ending extreme hunger requires the interaction of both household and community level infrastructural investments. When communities and households are capital infrastructure constrained, the effects of extreme events such ... -
The social preferences of the native inhabitants, and the decision how many asylum seekers to admit
(2019-12)We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two ... -
Choice without consciousness: Women’s Participation in Household Decisions and Gender Equality in Children’s Education
(2019)In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children’s education and allocation of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, ... -
Migrating for children’s better future: Intergenerational Mobility of Internal Migrants’ Children in Indonesia
(2019-12)Internal migration dominates population mobility in Indonesia; according to the 2010 census, there were almost 30 million permanent migrants, around 12.5 percent of the population. The effects of this internal migration ... -
Relative deprivation as a cause of risky behaviors
(2019-11)Combining a standard measure of concern about low relative wealth and a standard measure of relative risk aversion leads to a novel explanation of variation in risk-taking behavior identified and documented by social ... -
Pure rank preferences and variation in risk-taking behavior
(2019-11)Assuming that an individual’s rank in the wealth distribution is the only factor determining the individual’s wellbeing, we analyze the individual’s risk preferences in relation to gaining or losing rank, rather than the ...
