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Essays on Economic Behaviour: HIV/AIDS, Schooling, and Inequality
(2011-04-14)
Paper 1: Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We ...
The Effect of Older Siblings’ Literacy on School Entry and Primary School Progress in the Ethiopian Highlands
(2011-03)
The effects of older sisters’ and brothers’ literacy on the annual school entry and primary school grade progress probabilities of boys and girls are estimated using within-household variation. Older siblings’ literacy has ...
Does a Diversification Motive Influence Children’s School Entry in the Ethiopian Highlands?
(2011-03)
Household-level diversification of human capital investments is investigated. A simple model is developed, followed by an empirical analysis using 2000-2007 data from the rural Amhara region of Ethiopia. Diversification ...
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 ...