New Journal Article by John F. Hoddinott, and Tseday J. Mekasha. Abstract: We provide new evidence on the impact of social protection interventions on household size and the factors that cause the household size to change: fertility, child fosterage, and in and out migration related to work and marriage. Using data from an intervention delivered […]
Reducing chronic undernutrition through nutrition sensitive SP
The National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) organized a seminar on November 7, 2019 at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) on "Reducing chronic undernutrition through nutrition sensitive social protection (SP): Evidence from Bangladesh, lessons for Ethiopia" which was presented by John Hoddinott of Cornell University. Reducing undernutrition is of intrinsic and instrumental value. However, […]
Identifying priority value-chains in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 110, by Rui Benfica and James Thurlow. Abstract: This paper uses an economy-wide model to identify agricultural activities and value-chains in Ethiopia whose expansion would be most effective at generating economic growth,