explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk …. Controlling for unobserved household and time-varying village characteristics, it emerges that not just exante credit constraints …

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature ofunemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants … unemployment are negatively related to household welfare. Since we cannot rejectthat the latter is endogenous, this suggests that …

poverty thresholds. Third, it adds the first study for a South Asian country and makes a comparison with Ethiopia.Household …, identifying the degree of linearity in household asset dynamics, and specifically any potential asset poverty thresholds, is of … fundamental interest to the design of poverty reduction policies. If household asset holdings converged unconditionally to a …

pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to study stochastic wealth dynamics among a very poor population. These data yield several novel … findings. Although covariate rainfall shocks plainly matter, household-specific factors, including own herd size, account for …

This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico … household consumption covaries with the growth rate of household income. All the cases studies show that food consumption is … ever poor and the proportion of time spent in poverty are also explored for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Russia. All the case …

the formation of credit networks. It uses original data, collected in Southern Ethiopia, an environment where nonlinear … data from southern Ethiopia it is shown that this method yieldsestimates of the structure of social relations that are …

insights from field research in Ethiopia, including personal interviews with relevant parties and direct observation of how …