Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF): Recent submissions
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The Nexus of Production Diversity, Market Participation and Dietary Diversity: Insights from Ethiopia
(2021-12)This study examines the nexus among production diversity, market participation, and consumption diversity in smallholder households. It identifies the main factors that influence smallholder farm households’ decision to ... -
A social-psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen’s measures of inequality and social welfare
(2021-09)The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen’s 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from social-psychological building blocks, reformulating it ... -
Employer sanctions: A policy with a pitfall?
(2021-08)This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision ... -
Effect of extreme weather events on child health in rural Uganda
(2021-06)Children in rural farming households across the developing countries are often vulnerable to a multitude of risks, including health risks associated with climate change and variability. This study empirically traced the ... -
Menopause as a regulatory device for matching the demand for children with its supply: A hypothesis
(2021-06)Drawing on two assumptions: that menopause is an instrument for the efficient regulation of the duration of a biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we ... -
Children in left-behind migrant households: education and gender equality
(2021-05)This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households “left behind” by the migrants. Left-behind households’ expenditure on children’s education and the gendered distribution ... -
An optimal split of school classes
(2021-02)In many countries, schools have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by splitting up classes. While the purpose of dividing classes is clearly health-related, the process of doing so poses an interesting question: what is ... -
Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling
(2021-01)Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny’s education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. ... -
Institutional and macroeconomic stability mediate the effect of auctions on renewable energy capacity
(2022-12)Decarbonizing the global energy matrix through investments in renewable energy (RE) is considered a pathway to mitigate the effects of global climate change. Auctions have become an increasingly popular policy instrument ... -
Risk-laden migration as a response to relative deprivation: A hypothesis
(2022-12)Received migration research has it that higher relative deprivation strengthens the incentive for people to migrate, and that migration is often a risky enterprise. Relative deprivation has been seen as a push factor in ... -
Agglomeration, pollution, and migration: A substantial link, and policy design
(2022-12)We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium ... -
Carbon Farming Training and Welfare: Evidence from Northern Ghana
(2022-09)Carbon farming, particularly soil carbon climate strategies, has emerged as a popular tool in addressing climate change and variability in worldwide agriculture. Yet, there is a paucity of evidence on its application, and ... -
Value chain transformations in the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy
(2022-08)The adoption of new bio-based technologies that reduce our reliance on fossil fuels is presented as a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while creating new business opportunities. Such a transition towards a bio-based ... -
Can the evolution of joint savings agreements counter the effect of higher costs of migration on its intensity?
(2022-06)In this paper we consider a population of would-be migrants in a developing country. To begin with, this population is divided into two sets: those who save by themselves to pay for the cost of their migration, and those ... -
On the optimal size of a joint savings association
(2022-05)We develop a formula for the optimal size of a joint savings association between individuals who share the same financial goal and who can save towards that goal at the same rate. Our motivating example and the core of our ... -
The Impact of Social Assistance Programmes in a Pandemic: Evidence from Kenya
(2022-05)This paper examines whether social protection – in the form of existing social assistance programmes - affects measures of household well-being such as poverty, food security and costly risk-coping behaviour during the ... -
Why reducing relative deprivation but not reducing income inequality might bring down COVID-19 infections
(2022-01)We examine an assumed link between reducing inequality in income distribution, namely reducing the Gini coefficient on one hand, and improving public health in general and lowering the incidence and severity of COVID-19 ... -
The Changing Drivers of Food Inflation – Macroeconomics, Inflation, and War
(2024-02)The inflation surge in recent years is having profound social, economic, and political consequences. In particular, food price increases strongly affect low-income segments of the population. What makes this period so ... -
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions
(2024-02)Sen (1973 and 1997) presents the Gini coefficient of income inequality in a population as follows. “In any pair-wise comparison the man with the lower income can be thought to be suffering from some depression on finding ... -
Maternal employment in high-value agriculture and child nutrition: Evidence from the Ethiopian cut-flower industry
(2023-12)In many countries of the Global South, agri-food supply chains are transforming rapidly. One important feature of this transformation is growth in certain high-value agricultural subsectors, such as horticulture and ...
