Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about …

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings …

targeting of efforts to reduce undernutrition in Ethiopia is inefficient, in part because of the lack of data and updated …Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government. Despite substantial … reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight …

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and …

This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of … households in rural Ethiopia. Public policies and customs created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their … pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes. By matching aggregated census data before and after the reform with …