ESSP Working Paper 148, by Alan de Brauw, Kalle Hirvonen, and Gashaw T. Abate. Abstract: In early July 2020, we called by telephone a representative sample of nearly 600 households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to assess income changes and household food and nutrition security status during the COVID-19 pandemic (recall period covering June). This was the […]
Incentivizing and retaining public servants in remote areas: A discrete choice experiment with agricultural extension agents in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 147, by Mekdim D. Regassa, Gashaw T. Abate, and Zaneta Kubik. Abstract: Increased deployment of agricultural extension agents (EAs) in rural areas is grounded on their importance to spur agricultural productivity and mitigate spatial imbalance in welfare. However, high turnover and low motivation level of EAs in remote areas pose a challenge for […]
Food safety, modernization, and food prices: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 146, by Bart Minten, Yetimwork Habte, Kaleab Baye, and Seneshaw Tamru. Abstract: Modern marketing arrangements are increasingly being implemented to assure improved food quality and safety. However, it is not well known how these modern marketing arrangements perform in early stages of roll-out. We study this issue in the case of rural-urban […]
Evidence from the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia. Complementarities between social protection and health policies
Social protection policies typically involve multiple sectors, ranging from food security to health care. Despite this, limited research is directed toward understanding how different social protection programmes complement each other. We explore complementarities between three major national social protection programs in rural Ethiopia: the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) […]
This is US: Geography of evidence in top health economics journals
The Journal of Health Economics and Health Economics are arguably the top two journals in the field of health economics. Together, they published 1,679 empirical research articles in the past decade (2010–2019). In line with analyses based on earlier periods, the empirical evidence in top health economics journals continues to be dominated by the United States (37% of all […]
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