Sökning: "highlands of Ethiopia"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden highlands of Ethiopia.
1. Essays on Shocks, Welfare, and Poverty Dynamics: Microeconometric Evidence from Ethiopia
Sammanfattning : Five self-contained papers constitute this thesis. Paper 1: Does fertilizer use respond to rainfall variability? Panel data evidence from urban Ethiopia In this article, we use farmers’ actual experiences with changes in rainfall levels and their responses to these changes to assess whether patterns of fertilizer use are responsive to changes in rainfall patterns. LÄS MER
2. Risk, Time and Land Management under Market Imperfections: Applications to Ethiopia
Sammanfattning : This Ph.D. thesis addresses both theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to land management decisions of farm households in developing countries working under an imperfect market and institutional setting (with case studies from Ethiopia). LÄS MER
3. Sanctity and Environment in Ethiopian Hagiography : The Case of Gedle Gebre Menfes Qiddus
Sammanfattning : The original forests of the central and northern highlands of Ethiopia are almost entirely confined to the “sacred groves” surrounding the churches and monasteries of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. In Ethiopian tradition sanctity starts from the Tabot on the altar of the church and extends to the outer periphery of the compound. LÄS MER
4. Essays on Economic Behaviour: HIV/AIDS, Schooling, and Inequality
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi To analyze if the spread of HIV is related to economic inequality we estimate multilevel models of the individual probability of HIV infection among young Malawian women. We find a positive association between HIV infection and inequality at both the neighbourhood and district levels, but no effect of individual poverty. LÄS MER
5. Risk and Rates of Time Preferences of Farm Households in Ethiopia: Implications on land investment decisions
Sammanfattning : Summary Paper 1: Risk Preferences of Farm Households in Ethiopia: Implications to Land Investment Decisions This paper measures farmers' attitude towards risk using an experimental approach for a sample of 262 farm households in Ethiopian highlands. We find more than 50 percent of the households in severe to extreme risk aversion category, unlike similar studies in Asia, where the vast majorities are found under moderate to intermediate risk aversion category. LÄS MER