This paper examines the effects of shocks on temporal stability of risk and time preferences of rural households within a developing country context characterized by frequent droughts, chronic food insecurity, and low levels of education. Leveraging a three-wave large and diverse household panel data that elicits preferences every two years for more than 6,500 individuals […]
Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of light-touch aspirations interventions in rural Ethiopia
A growing literature in economics has analysed the effects of psychological interventions designed to boost individual aspirations as a strategy to increase households’ propensity to make long-term investments and thus reduce poverty. This paper reports on a randomised controlled trial evaluating a short video-based intervention designed to increase aspirations of adults in poor rural Ethiopian […]
NEWSLETTER ESSP NEWSLETTER JANUARY – MARCH 2024
IFPRI/ESSP is pleased to present its quarterly newsletter for the month of January - March 2024. The newsletter provides updates on latest publications. It also gives recaps of the program's surveys, publications, blogs and more.
Deputy PM highlights agricultural proliferation significance
Ethiopian agriculture in the news for the period March 16 - 31, 2024 highlighting current stories in agriculture and related topics in the country. Read more>>
World Water Day 2024: Invest in women for peace and water security
MARCH 21, 2024 BY CLAUDIA RINGLER OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The theme of this year’s World Water Day (March 22), “Water for Peace,” could not come at a more opportune time. Global water, food, and humanitarian crises have reached near-unprecedented levels: As a 2023 conference of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences concluded, “The world is facing the highest […]
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