Weather Risk and Household Participation in Off-farm Activities in Rural Ethiopia
| dc.creator | Demeke, Abera Birhanu | |
| dc.creator | Zeller, Manfred | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T16:32:05Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T07:22:09Z | |
| dc.description | This study examines the effects of weather shock on households’ decision to engage in different types of off-farm work in rural Ethiopia. A multinomial logit model is applied to household data collected in 1999 and 2004. The regression results show that the level and variability of rainfall has a significant effect on the decision by households to engage in any type of off-farm work. The probability of a household deciding to participate in low-return, off-farm activities increases with lower levels and higher variability of rainfall, suggesting that households engage in those activities as a strategy for coping with adverse weather shock. Contrary to this, we find that participation in high-return activities increases with the level of rainfall and tends to decrease with rainfall variability, suggesting a strong correlation between off-farm activities and agricultural production. | |
| dc.identifier | Other:ISSN 0049-8599 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.155470 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/155470/files/1_Demeke.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/155470 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/587510 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/155470 | |
| dc.title | Weather Risk and Household Participation in Off-farm Activities in Rural Ethiopia | |
| dc.type | Text |