International commodity price shocks may have large impacts on producers in developing countries. In this paper, a unique household panel data from Ethiopia is utilized to show that a decrease in international coffee price has strong pass-through to the consumption of households that rely on...

Developing countries, such as SSA, often face a trade-off in investing in highways that interconnect cities vs. rural roads that connect rural villages to markets. Prioritization of either roads requires estimation of the welfare gains from each. This paper estimates the welfare gains from rural...