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Shocks, Remittances and Household Consumption A Dynamic System GMM Analysis
(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 ...
Credit, Insurance, and Farmers’ Liability
(2017-03)
To cope with losses from extreme hydro-meteorological events, governments typically implement disaster relief programs and offer debt relief to affected parties. Governments in developing countries have made extensive use ...
Productive Efficiency and Its Determinants in a Changing Climate: A Monotonic Translog Stochastic Frontier Analysis
(2017-06)
The changing weather patterns and seasonal shifts are negatively impacting agricultural
ecosystems and compromising the benefits from production of agricultural goods and services. Such
impacts include reduced farm ...
Households’ Risk Perceptions in Response to Shale Gas Exploitation: Evidence from China
(2017-10)
In 2014, China became the world’s third country to realize shale gas commercial development, following the United States and Canada. So far, there has been a lack of comprehensive discussion on risk perception related to ...
The Land Certification Program and Off-Farm Employment in Ethiopia
(2017-02)
Strong property rights have long been touted as key to increased performance of the rural economy in developing countries. Indeed, in an overwhelmingly agrarian economy like Ethiopia, with state ownership of land, increased ...
Chinese Local Residents’ Attitudes toward Shale Gas Exploitation: The Role of Energy Poverty, Environmental Awareness, and Benefit and Risk Perceptions
(2017-12)
This study investigates Chinese local residents’ attitudes toward shale gas exploitation through an interview of 730 local residents in two counties of Sichuan Province (Weiyuan County and Gong County) and explores the ...
Interaction between Crop Insurance and Technology Adoption Decisions: The Case of Wheat Farmers in Chile
(2017-08)
This paper examines relationships between crop insurance participation and input technology decisions among Chilean wheat farmers. Using nation-wide farm-level data from the National Agriculture and Forestry Census (INE ...
Determinants of Enterprises’ Use of Energy Efficient Technologies:Evidence from Urban Ethiopia
(2018-02)
We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 8174 micro, small and medium enterprises from ten major urban areas in Ethiopia to study the determinants of the enterprises’ adoption of energy efficiency practices and technologies. ...
Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability and Its Implications for Household Nutrition in Kenya
(2017-06)
Climate change and variability are affecting weather patterns and causing seasonal shifts with
serious repercussions for households and communities in Kenya. The livelihoods of the majority of
Kenyans are therefore ...