Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF): Recent submissions
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An economics-based rationale for the Rawlsian social welfare program
(2020-10)We show that a social planner who seeks to allocate a given sum in order to reduce efficiently the social stress of a population, as measured by the aggregate relative deprivation of the population, pursues a disbursement ... -
Water, sanitation and agriculture linkages with health and nutrition improvement
(2019-09)In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure a matter of human right. This right is reflected in Sustainable Development Goal 6, whose targets 1 and 2 point to ... -
The likelihood of divorce and the riskiness of financial decisions
(2019-08)We link causally the riskiness of men’s management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the former manage their ... -
Can a deportation policy backfire?
(2019-10)Drawing on a model in which utility is derived from consumption and effort (labor supply), we ask how the deportation of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor supply, consumption, and ... -
Switching queues, cultural conventions, and social welfare
(2019-07)We use queuing-related behavior as an instrument for assessing the social appeal of alternative cultural norms. Specifically, we study the behavior of rational and sophisticated individuals who stand in a given queue waiting ... -
The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices: The evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution
(2019-04)This paper tracks the consequences of individuals’ desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. ... -
Repercussions of negatively selective migration for the behavior of non-migrants when preferences are social
(2019-04)We study how the work effort and output of non-migrants in a village economy are affected when a member of the village population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and that migration modifies ... -
Farm wage and rice price dynamics in Bangladesh
(2019-04)Concepts explaining the wage‐price nexus in Bangladesh are diverse and conflicting. A proper understanding of the relationship between food prices and rural wages is essential for planning policies in support of the rural ... -
Can one improve now-casts of crop prices in Africa? Google can.
(2019-02)With increasing Internet user rates across Africa, there is considerable interest in exploring new, online data sources. Particularly, search engine metadata, i.e. data representing the contemporaneous online-interest in ... -
Can community-based health insurance nudge preventive health behaviours?: Evidence from rural Uganda
(2019-01)Community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes have emerged as strong pathways to universal health coverage in developing countries. Their examination has largely focussed on their impacts on financial protection and on ... -
Impact of community-based health insurance on child health outcomes: Evidence on stunting from rural Uganda
(2019-01)While community-based health insurance (CBHI) becomes increasingly integrated into health systems in developing countries, there is still limited research and evidence on its probable health impacts beyond its functions ... -
Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China
(2020-12)Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and ... -
Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
(2020-11)Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect students’ educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to ... -
An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade
(2020-11)Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a “trembling ... -
CAP measures towards environmental sustainability: Trade opportunities for Africa?
(2020-05)The future EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) requires coherence with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the international commitments in the fight against climate change. Next to ensuring stable food supply by ... -
EU Common Agricultural Policy - Impacts on Trade with Africa and African Agricultural Development
(2020-05)The impacts of European agricultural and trade policies on agricultural development and food security in Africa are analyzed in this study. The research is prompted by the pending further development of the Common Agricultural ... -
Making cash crop value chains nutrition-sensitive: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in rural Sierra Leone
(2020-05)With a strong global commitment to ending food insecurity and malnutrition, policymakers are increasingly grappling with how to make smallholder agriculture nutrition-sensitive. While the need to address these problems on ... -
"Us" and "Them": Prosocial attitudes between refugees and host communities exposed to armed conflict: Experimental evidence from Northern Uganda
(2020-02)We examine prosocial attitudes between refugees and host communities exposed to armed conflict and living in close proximity in Northern Uganda. By conducting trust and dictator games in the field, we test if there are ... -
On the precarious link between the Gini coefficient and the incentive to migrate
(2020-02)We offer an explanation for the inconclusive results of empirical studies into the relationship between the magnitude of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind ... -
The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor: A hypothesis
(2021-12)We study a parent’s demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a ...
