Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ...
