In June 2011, the Government of Ethiopia rolled out a pilot Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme. This paper …

We analyse the effects of ill-health on household economic outcomes in Ethiopia, using three years of household panel …

The author studies the effect of an agricultural shock and a labor sharing arrangement (informal social network) on … compelling situations to send their child to work. This is, especially, true when they are hit by an income shock and face a … participation in a labor sharing arrangement, the covariate shock is not. Even if this may well affect a child's academic …

Based on household survey data and event history interviews undertaken in a highly shock prone country, this paper … shock types. The two relatively covariate shocks, that is, economic and natural shocks are more likely to trigger reductions … notably absent in the case of health shocks. Across all shock types, households do not rely on gifts from family and friends …

Between 2000 and 2011, Ethiopia rapidly expanded its health-care infrastructure recording an 18-fold increase in the …