This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Eleven authors agreed to have their papers included in this volume. The studies can be grouped into four domains: child poverty and malnutrition, dynamics and determinants of poverty, multidimensional...

This study applies the fixed effect model to investigate determinants of consumption expenditure and the MNL model to identify determinants of chronic and transient poverty in urban Ethiopia using panel data. Descriptive results show that while a large number of households frequently moved in...

Some consumption opportunities, e.g. medical treatments, are both indivisible and only valuable in particular states of nature. The existence of such state-dependent indivisible consumption opportunities influences a person's risk attitudes. In general, people are not risk averse anymore even if...