Researchers analyze the feasibility of a tri-national water fund
EfD Central America researchers, Roger Madrigal, and Eduardo Pacay visited the Trifinio Region, where the territories of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala meet. The purpose was to network and…
”If you’re a doctor you want to tend to the sickest patient”
Michael Hanemann has been working on the economics of water most of his professional life, but with a different perspective than many others. He claims that the economics of water is too important to…
“Building long-term relationships with policymakers is the biggest challenge”
Twenty researchers from the Global South who obtained their doctor’s degree five years ago or less are participating in the EfD’s Early Career Fellowship program. The purpose of the program is to…
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EEU Seminar - Théo Konc
The next speaker in the EEU seminar series is Théo Konc. Théo is currently doing a post-doc at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ( website). On Monday, 12.05-13.00 (Stockholm time)…
New project seeks solutions to mitigate climate change related conflicts through insurance.
The Environment and Climate Research Center, ECRC, has garnered collaborative research funding for a project titled “From Climate change to Conflict: Mitigation through insurance”. The study will…
Workshop on fossil fuel, plastic pollution, and forest loss in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian team in the Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) program conducted a workshop on the draft National Policy Review (NPR) covering three themes; fossil fuel, plastic pollution, and forest loss…
Strengthening networking and research collaboration on the water topic
Tanya Hayes and Felipe Murtinho, researchers from Seattle University, visited EfD Central America to identify opportunities for developing high-quality research proposals related to the Sustainable…
Smarter Teachers, Smarter Students? Some New Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
EfD Authors:
We study the effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement in mathematics and reading by using a data set from six sub-Saharan African countries. By using an estimation based on within-teacher within-student strategy, we can avoid a potential endogeneity bias. In most estimations and most countries, we do not find a significant teacher knowledge effect. The main reasons are teacher absenteeism and the need to focus on core knowledge.
Drivers of organic farming: Lab-in-the-field evidence of the role of social comparison and information nudge in networks in Vietnam
EfD Authors:
This study examines factors determining farmers’ investment in organic farming using a contextualized lab-in-the-field experiment with 220 small household farmers in Northern Vietnam. We focus on the role of network structure, information nudge, and social comparison between farmers using three types of networks: circle, star and complete. Our results suggest that, on average, around 64% of the land is invested in organic farming in the complete network in which each farmer is connected to all of the others, while only about 57% of the land is invested in the circle and star network.