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Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
(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 ...
The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban Ethiopia
(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 ...
Essays on Shocks, Welfare, and Poverty Dynamics: Microeconometric Evidence from Ethiopia
(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 ...
Modelling Household Cooking Fuel Choice: a Panel Multinomial Logit Approach
(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 ...