“The gap between the poorest and the richest needs to be addressed”
She has spent many years doing research in Africa on energy access. She is a Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan and one of the founders of EfD’s…
The 2022 African Economic Conference (AEC)
The 2022 African Economic Conference (AEC), jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will…
The 2022 African Economic Conference (AEC) - Call for papers
The 2022 African Economic Conference (AEC), jointly organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will…
The short-term impact of air pollution on medical expenditures: Evidence from Beijing
EfD Authors:
We identify the short-term effects of PM2.5 concentrations on medical costs in Beijing by analyzing two datasets: one detailing daily air quality indexes over a four-year period and the other containing individual-level records of all health care visits and medical transactions that occurred under a government insurance program that covers most city residents. We find that both higher levels of air pollution and longer-lasting pollution episodes significantly increase health care visits and medical expenditures.
EfD Ethiopia held the second IGE workshop
As part of the IGE capacity-building program, the Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC) (EfD-Ethiopia) organized a second workshop on August 4, 2020. The objective of the workshop was to…
Food crisis looms in Nigerian households due to farmers-herders conflict
Nigerian households face the risk of a food crisis because of the increasing spate of violent clashes between nomadic herders and crop farmers in the country’s agrarian communities. Although the…
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Agriculture |
Nigeria
A vibrant network re-united at the SETI 2022 Annual Workshop!
Over 20 researchers from all over the world presented findings about energy policies, infrastructure, energy use and distribution in countries of the Global South at the Sustainable Energy Transitions…
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Agriculture, Air Quality, Carbon Pricing, Climate Change, Covid-19, Energy, Gender, Policy Design, Urban, Waste |
Chile, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam
Discussion to highlight gender and social norms as barriers to female labor participation
A panel of women economists gathered to deliberate on the barriers encountered by women in the labor market. They focused on role segregation, social norms, and evidence of women’s participation in…
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Colombia
Do Chilean imports lead prices in the EU mussel market?
EfD Authors:
The impact that added competition of imported mussels from Chile might have had on market prices is one of the main reasons given to explain the decrease in the economic performance of the mussel aquaculture sector in the European Union (EU) in the last two decades. This hypothesis has not yet been tested. In this article we test empirically for price leadership and market integration in the EU mussel market. We estimate a cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model for the French, Italian, and Spanish mussel import markets and test for price leadership.