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Why don’t households invest in latrines: health, prestige, or safety?

Gross, Elena; Günther, Isabel - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2014

70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin, as much as 95 percent of the population has no access to improved sanitation. This paper explores why households remain without latrines analyzing a representative sample of 2000...

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Household-level Credit Constraints in Urban Ethiopia

Ibrahim, Gamal; Kedir, Abbi; Torres, Sebastian - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2007

Empirical evidence on determinants of credit constraints and the amount borrowed by urban household in Sub-Saharan Africa is almost non-existent. Using an extended direct approach by virtue of the unique data set we have (the Fourth Round Ethiopian Urban Household Survey), we analysed the...

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Why don't households invest in latrines: Health, prestige, or safety?

Gross, Elena; Günther, Isabel - 2014

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Why Don't Households Invest in Latrines : Health, Prestige, or Safety?

Gross, Elena; Günther, Isabel - 2014

70 percent of the rural population in sub-Saharan Africa does not use adequate sanitation facilities. In rural Benin, as much as 95 percent of the population is without access to improved sanitation. This paper explores, analyzing a representative sample of 2000 rural households, why households...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146103

Cash or Discount? Effective Education Intervention Design in a Low Income Country Setting : Evidence from Ethiopia

Adem, Jemal - 2022

This study examines why cash grants fail to increase parental investment in child education, and what can be done to increase their effectiveness. The findings assert that designing interventions as cost-sharing schemes instead of a lumpsum grant scheme significantly increases the willingness of...

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Vulnerability to Disaster and Economic Behaviour : Does Traumatic Experiences Shift Preferences?

Adem, Jemal - 2022

This study investigates whether disaster experience and vulnerability affect individual risk-taking and time-discounting behaviour using field experiments from Ethiopia. The study finds that experiencing drought raises risk aversion and motive for precautionary saving among vulnerable...

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Social benefits of clean energy: Evidence from Bangladesh

Uddin, Mohammed Gazi Salah; Abdullah-Al-Baki, Chowdhury; … - 2023

worldwide. This study tries to measure the welfare effects of solar adoption using the three rounds of the Bangladesh Integrated … Household Surveys. We applied both ordinary least squares and propensity score matching techniques to estimate the welfare …

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Pandemic Led Food Price Anomalies and Supply Chain Disruption : Evidence from COVID-19 Incidence in India

Cariappa, A G Adeeth - 2020

COVID-19 induced lock down has disrupted the food markets and commodity prices in India. This paper uses evidence from the official statistics on daily wholesale and retail prices (n=284) for major commodities by adopting interrupted timeseries analysis (ITSA). The results revealed that prices...

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COVID -19, Household Resilience, and Rural Food Systems : Evidence from Southern and Eastern Africa

Upton, Joanna; Tennant, Elizabeth; Florella, Kathryn; … - 2022

Resilience offers a useful lens for studying how human well-being and the systems on which it depends can absorb and recover from a range of shocks and stressors, including events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking beyond the direct effects of observable shocks and individual or household...

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Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania: an Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment

Tiberti, Luca; Tiberti, Marco - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012

consumption and production can bias the final impact on household welfare. The main objective of this study is thus to develop a … robust and comprehensive tool to evaluate the effect on household welfare of different agricultural policies in Tanzania and … simulate the effect on household welfare of a hypothetical 40% increase in the price of cereals and other crops and a …

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