Browsing by Author "Alem, Yonas"
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Decision-making within the Household: The Role of Autonomy and Differences in Preferences
Alem, Yonas; Hassen, Sied; Köhlin, Gunnar (2018-03)We use a field experiment to identify how differences in preferences and autonomy in decision-making result in sub-optimal adoption of technologies that can maximize the welfare of all members of the household. We create ... -
Do Safety Nets Promote Technology Adoption? Panel data evidence from rural Ethiopia
Alem, Yonas; Broussard, Nzinga H. (2013-02)We use panel data from rural Ethiopia to investigate if participation in a safety net program enhances fertilizer adoption. Using a difference-in-difference estimator and inverse propensity score weighting we find that ... -
Does Fertilizer Use Respond to Rainfall Variability? Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia
Alem, Yonas; Bezabih, Mintewab; Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious (2009-01-05)In this paper we use farmers' actual experiences with changes in rainfall levels and their responses to these changes to assess if patterns of fertilizer use are responsive to changes in rainfall patterns. Using plot and ... -
Essays on Shocks, Welfare, and Poverty Dynamics: Microeconometric Evidence from Ethiopia
Alem, Yonas (2011-04-20)Five self-contained papers constitute this thesis. Paper 1: Does fertilizer use respond to rainfall variability? Panel data evidence from urban Ethiopia In this article, we use farmers’ actual experiences with changes ... -
Improving Welfare through Climate-friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification
Alem, Yonas; Eggert, Håkan; Ruhinduka, Remidius (2015-10)We use rich survey data to investigate the impact of a climate-friendly rice farming method known as the system of rice intensification (SRI) on the welfare of rain-dependent small-holder farmers in Tanzania. SRI reduces ... -
Integrating Soil Science into Agricultural Production Frontiers
Ekbom, Anders; Alem, Yonas; Sterner, Thomas (2012-12)This paper integrates soil science variables into an economic analysis of agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s highlands. The integration is valuable because farmers’ choice of inputs depends on both ... -
International Remittances and Private Inter-household Transfers: Exploring the Links
Alem, Yonas; Andersson, Lisa (2015-10)We investigate the effect of remittances from migrated family members on informal inter- household transfers - an issue that has received limited attention in the literature. Using rich panel data from urban Ethiopia, ... -
Life Satisfaction in Urban Ethiopia: Trends and determinants
Alem, Yonas; Köhlin, Gunnar (2012-12)Most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity. In this paper, we use three rounds of panel data and ... -
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
Alem, Yonas; Maurel, Mathilde; Millock, Katrin (2016-06)There is solid scientific evidence predicting that a large part of the developing world will suffer a greater incidence of extreme weather events, which may increase the incidence of displacement migration. We draw on the ... -
Mind, Behaviour and Health - a Randomised Experiment
Alem, Yonas; Behrendt, Hannah; Belot, Michele; Bíró, Aniko (2016-06)Behavioural attitudes toward risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the possibility ... -
Mindfulness and Stress - a Randomised Experiment
Alem, Yonas; Behrendt, Hannah; Belot, Michele; Bíró, Anikó (2018-03)We conduct a randomised controlled trial of an online course in mindfulness. Previous research has found evidence that mindfulness reduces stress; however, few studies have been carried out on non-clinical populations that ... -
Modelling Household Cooking Fuel Choice: a Panel Multinomial Logit Approach
Alem, Yonas; Beyene, Abebe D.; Köhlin, Gunnar; Mekonnen, Alemmu (2015-10)We use three rounds of a rich panel data set to investigate the determinants of household cooking fuel choice and energy transition in urban Ethiopia. We observe that the expected energy transition did not occur following ... -
Optimal Expectations and the Welfare Cost of Climate Variability
Alem, Yonas; Colmer, Jonathan (2013-12)Uncertainty about the future is an important determinant of well-being, especially in developing countries where financial markets and other market failures result in ineffective insurance mechanisms. However, separating ... -
Passive Learning and Incentivized Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Alem, Yonas; Dugoua, Eugenie (2018-03)In order to understand the extent of the information barrier to adoption of a household technology, we designed a randomized controlled trial on willingness to pay (WTP) for solar lanterns in India. We gave high quality ... -
Poverty Persistence and Intra-Household Heterogeneity in Occupations: Evidence from Urban Ehtiopia
Alem, Yonas (2013-12)Previous studies of poverty in developing countries have to a great extent focused on the characteristics of the household head and used these as proxies for the underlying ability of the household to generate income. This ... -
Relative Standing and Life-Satisfaction: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter?
Alem, Yonas (2013-12)Unlike most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries, we use a fixed effects regression on three rounds of rich panel data to investigate the impact of relative standing on life satisfaction of respondents ... -
Shocks, Remittances and Household Consumption A Dynamic System GMM Analysis
Alem, Yonas (2028-02)We use a dynamic system GMM regression on ve rounds of panel data to estimate the impact of international remittances on consumption of urban Ethiopian households, who spend more than 70% of their consumption budget on ... -
The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
Alem, Yonas; Hassen, Sied; Köhlin, Gunnar (2013-02)Previous studies on improved cookstove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to adoption over time. We use ... -
The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban Ethiopia
Alem, Yonas; Köhlin, Gunnar; Stage, Jesper (2012-12)Using panel data spanning 15 years, this paper investigates the persistence and correlates of subjective and consumption poverty in urban Ethiopia. Despite the decline in consumption poverty in recent years, which has been ... -
Why (field) experiments on unethical behavior are important: Comparing stated and revealed behavior
Alem, Yonas; Eggert, Håkan; Kocher, Martin G.; Ruhinduka, Remidius D. (2016-06)Understanding unethical behavior is essential to many phenomena in the real world. We carry out a field experiment in a unique setting that varies the levels of reciprocity and guilt in an ethical decision. A survey more ...