Achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on limiting climate change, and reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by around 2050 requires scientific evidence to support policy-making. Strategies…
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Key Messages Improvements in household electricity consumption resulting from efficiency improvements have the potential to reduce household electricity expenditure, and consequently the level of poverty among households. However, little is known about the extent to which improvement in electricity consumption efficiency can reduce poverty. Our study finds that: |
Purpose: This workshop will combine lectures on current research in climate economics together with an introduction to causal inference methods. Topics in climate economics include the social cost of…
Highlights:
▪ Hire purchase schemes increase vendors' likelihood of buying an LPG cookstove.
▪ Hire purchase schemes with a learning opportunity have a greater effect on the vendor’s likelihood of buying an LPG cookstove.
A report is now available, which reflects on experiences from East Africa in addressing key environmental and social challenges: fossil fuels, plastic pollution, and deforestation. The report has been…
Poverty remains one of the key development goals for developing countries. Achieving this goals may be far-fetched given the increasing vagaries from climate change. This paper sought to estimate the effect of climate and weather variability on chronic poverty using household panel data for Kenya. Using Chamberlain random effects probit model with control function, the paper found that weather variability reduces the likelihood of a household falling into chronic poverty.
This paper sought to give insights and inform policy on farmers' knowledge on climate change, the adaptation strategies and the intensity of adaptation. The research was carried out in Kirinyaga County in Kenya. Purposive sampling was used to select the county while random sampling was used to select the respondents. Primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire. The probit regression model, the multivariate probit model, and Poisson model were utilized.
