Tekalign Gutu Sakketa is a researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Germany. He was a visiting fellow at Cornell University as … More
Tag: Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s social safety net effective in limiting COVID-19 impacts on rural food insecurity
Kibrom A. Abay is a Research Fellow with IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD), based in Cairo. Guush Berhane is a DSGD … More
Does Commodity Price Volatility Drive Migration?
Yu Na Lee is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota; she is … More
Building Resilience in Ethiopia through the Public Safety Nets Program
Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD student at Cornell’s Dyson School. El Nino is upon us with is its inevitable litany … More
The drivers of index-based livestock insurance demand in southern Ethiopia
Kazushi Takahashi is an associate professor at Sophia University, Japan, and a former visiting fellow at Cornell’s Dyson School. Pastoralists … More
Should bureaucrats in capital cities decide exactly how much aid a villager receives?
Andrew Simons is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School and is currently on the job market. Who should have … More
Combining data for research that is more than the sum of its parts
Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Economists tend to undervalue qualitative data, yet in many … More
Designing a robust profitability tool for targeting agricultural interventions
Julianne Quinn is a PhD student in Cornell’s School of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Far too often, agricultural interventions are … More
Does index insurance make people feel better off?
Kibrom Hirfrfot is a PhD candidate at Cornell’s Dyson School. Uninsured risk exposure and the experience of uninsured shocks in … More
What are the environmental impacts of index-based livestock insurance?
Russell Toth is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney’s School of Economics and an alumnus of Cornell’s Economics Department. … More