A5001036988- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- African history and culture analysis
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- School Choice and Performance
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Economic Growth and Development
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- International Development and Aid
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Addis Ababa University
2014-2024
University of Cambridge
2021-2023
Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute
2021
University College London
2021
Cornell University
2021
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
2008-2019
University of Warwick
2012
Medical Research Council
2012
Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
2012
University of Oxford
2012
Abstract This article investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access agricultural extension services faster consumption growth lower rates of poverty rural Ethiopia. Estimating an Instrumental Variables model using Generalized Methods Moments controlling for household fixed effects, we find evidence positive impacts with meaningful magnitudes. Receiving at least one visit reduces headcount by 9.8 percentage points increases 7.1 points....
The impact of education on farmers' attitudes toward endogenous risk (measured using an attitude survey instrument) is estimated with household data from rural Ethiopia. Education the head found to decrease risk-aversion. Next, effects and technology adoption are estimated. Schooling encourages farmers adopt innovations, whereas risk-aversion reduces probability adoption. Thus, we find that schooling innovation, a potentially risky undertaking, not only directly but also indirectly, through...
Young Lives is an international longitudinal study investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four low-income countries [Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam] over a 15-year period. In each country, cohort comprised ≈ 2000 children aged between 6 18 months up to 1000 7 8 years, recruited 2002 sampled from 20 sentinel sites. The first survey data collection primary caregivers older took place 2002, second 2006-07 third 2009-10. Data on community contexts were...
Abstract What keeps some people persistently poor, even in the context of relative high growth? In this article, we explore question using a 15-year longitudinal data set from Ethiopia. We compare findings an empirical growth model with those derived determinants chronic poverty. ask whether chronically poor are simply not benefiting same way factors that allowed others to escape poverty, or there latent leave them behind? find poverty is associated several initial characteristics: lack...
Objective To provide evidence on the effect of COVID-19 pandemic mental health young people who grew up in poverty low/middle-income countries (LMICs). Design A phone survey administered between August and October 2020 to participants a population-based longitudinal cohort study established 2002 comprising two cohorts born 1994–1995 2001–2002 Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh Telangana), Peru Vietnam. We use logistic regressions examine associations pandemic-related stressors, structural...
The amount and distribution of rainfall temperature influences household food availability, thus increasing the risk child under nutrition. However, few studies examined local spatial variability impact on nutrition at a smaller scale (resolution). We conducted this study to evaluate effect weather variables variations in effects across three agro ecologies Ethiopia. A longitudinal panel was conducted. used crop productions (cereals oilseeds), livestock, monthly temperature, data for period...
Despite the far-ranging direct effects of armed conflict on daily life, physical health, and economic outcomes, there is limited evidence its impacts social political even less adolescents, despite this being a pivotal life-stage. This paper seeks to address critical gap in literature by exploring northern Ethiopia that lasted from 2022 adolescents' capital, including their peer networks, relationships with trusted adults, sense belonging community polity. The draws quantitative research...
Child chronic undernutrition, as measured by stunting, is prevalent in low- and middle-income countries among the major threats to child development. While stunting its implications for cognitive development have been considered irreversible beyond early childhood there a lack of consensus literature on this, some evidence recovery from that this may be associated with improvements cognition. Less known however, about drivers growth aspects linked In paper we investigate factors faltering...
Population-level analysis of dietary influences on nutritional status is challenging in part due to limitations intake data. Household expenditure surveys, covering recent household expenditures and including key food groups, are routinely conducted low- middle-income countries. These data may help identify patterns that relate child growth.We investigated the relationship between growth using factor analysis.We used 6993 children from Ethiopia, India, Peru Vietnam at ages 5, 8 12y Young...
Recent research on the effects of COVID-19 school closures has mainly focused primary and secondary education, with extremely limited attention to early childhood education (ECE). To address this gap, we identify extent which parents caregivers pre-primary school-aged children were engaged in their children's learning during Ethiopia. Our focus Ethiopia is particular relevance given that ECE provision expanded dramatically recent years, aimed at ensuring are prepared for school. Using data...
Standard economic models suggest that individuals participate in migration to improve their well-being, whether those decisions are made at the individual or household level. However, explicit and implicit barriers movement both within between countries can hinder migration, potentially affecting welfare improvement. In this article, we use a unique panel dataset of tracked migrants non-migrants originate from 18 peasant associations Ethiopia examine impacts internal migration. Using several...
Abstract A double hurdle model of off‐farm work participation and labour income was derived estimated consistent with a farm household model. It found that rationing unexpected transaction costs inhibit households from participating in work. The 1992 the Agenda 2000 CAP reforms are most likely to increase employment arable households, but its full effect cannot be realised because inhibitions enter activities. Household characteristics have different impacts on level income.
The paper uses data from a 2002 survey of 1000 rural and urban households with eight-year old children sampled food insecure communities in Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, SNNP Addis Ababa Regional States. Using probit regression model, we investigated external factors associated child enrolment school. We found that household wealth, cognitive social capital, adult education ownership land had positive impact on whether eight-year-old were attending Household wealth the strongest followed by...
Child chronic malnutrition is endemic in low- and middle-income countries deleterious for child development. Studies investigating the relationship between nutrition at different periods of childhood, as measured by growth these (growth trajectories), cognitive development have produced mixed evidence. Although an explanation this has been that studies use approaches to model trajectories, differences across are not well understood. Furthermore, little known about pathways linking...
Ethiopia's productive safety net is the second largest Social Protection Program in sub-Saharan Africa and has been rolled out to almost 10 million beneficiaries since 2005; its effects are therefore of general interest. We provide first estimates impact on children's cognitive abilities. To identify impacts this program, we exploit four rounds data a cohort children surveyed repeatedly between 2002 2013. find small but significant positive effect programme both numeracy skills vocabulary....
Abstract Given increasing policy attention to the consequences of youth marginalisation for development processes, engaging with experiences socially marginalised adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (including those who are out school, refugees, married, disabilities or adolescent parents) is a pressing priority. To understand how these disadvantages—and adolescents’ abilities respond them—intersect shape opportunities outcomes, this Special Issue draws on Gender Adolescence:...