Climate Shocks and Resilience: Evidence From Rural Ethiopia

Climate shock, specifically drought causes serious adverse effects on household welfare in rural Ethiopia. As a direct response to such shocks, resilience and related activities become the country’s key development agenda. In this context, we examine the relationship between climate shock and household consumption and then assess how household resilience influences this relationship. By combining […]

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The impact of the 2015 El Niño-induced drought on household consumption: evidence from rural Ethiopia

This paper evaluates the impact of the 2015 El Niño-induced drought on household consumption in Ethiopia. A difference-in-difference method was used to compare consumption changes over time in a group unaffected by the drought to the changes in a group affected by the drought. By using the ESS household-level consumption aggregate data, we find that […]

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