We examine the implication of the Productive Safety Nets Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia on the economic resilience of rural households. Using five-rounds of household panel data covering nine years, we implement a recently developed probabilistic moment-based approach to measure resilience and evaluate the role of PSNP transfers and duration of participation in PSNP on household […]
Beneficiary Views on Cash and In-Kind Payments Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
New World Bank Policy Research Working Paper by Kalle Hirvonen and John Hoddinott. Abstract: Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social safety net intervention (PSNP) operates. […]
Public investment choices by local and central governments
A new journal article by Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues. Abstract: This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal formal models of devolution, but describes many developing countries. This study presents a […]
Farmers’ grain storage and losses in Ethiopia: Measures and associates
While storage losses at the farm are often assumed to be an important contributor to presumed large postharvest losses in developing countries, reliable and representative data on these losses are often lacking. We study farmers’ storage decisions and self-reported storage losses for grains based on two large-scale household surveys conducted in major agricultural areas in […]
Seasonality: a missing link in preventing undernutrition
New journal article by Kaleab Baye and Kalle Hirvonen. Abstract: The increasing recognition that stunting and wasting are linked, and that wasting can increase the risk of subsequent stunting, has serious programmatic and policy implications,
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