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Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Luleå University of Technology, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden

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Journal article
Published: 23 July 2021 in Sustainability
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The fertilizer subsidies reintroduced in various sub-Saharan African countries from 2007 aim to increase agricultural production and assist in the development of fertilizer markets. The present study evaluates the impact of a fertilizer subsidy program among farmers in Ghana who employ highly mechanized irrigation systems. The results indicate that farmers who received fertilizer under the subsidy program used 45% more fertilizer. However, they did not use more weedicide and were likely to reduce investment in soil and water conservation. Thus, the income gains resulting from the subsidy programs were not invested in such non-targeted inputs. Moreover, the program beneficiaries’ reduced investment in soil and water conservation may explain the finding that the subsidy did not improve their productivity. Thus, since fertilizer subsidy programs alone may not improve productivity, it may be necessary to target spending explicitly on complementary inputs such as investing in soil and water conservation.

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Godwin Vondolia; Håkan Eggert; Jesper Stage. The Effect of Fertilizer Subsidies on Investment in Soil and Water Conservation and Productivity among Ghanaian Farmers Using Mechanized Irrigation. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8242 .

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Godwin Vondolia, Håkan Eggert, Jesper Stage. The Effect of Fertilizer Subsidies on Investment in Soil and Water Conservation and Productivity among Ghanaian Farmers Using Mechanized Irrigation. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8242.

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Godwin Vondolia; Håkan Eggert; Jesper Stage. 2021. "The Effect of Fertilizer Subsidies on Investment in Soil and Water Conservation and Productivity among Ghanaian Farmers Using Mechanized Irrigation." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8242.

Book review
Published: 07 January 2021 in Mineral Economics
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Jesper Stage. Tony Addison and Alan Roe (ed.): Extractive Industries: The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable Development. Mineral Economics 2021, 34, 167 -168.

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Jesper Stage. Tony Addison and Alan Roe (ed.): Extractive Industries: The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable Development. Mineral Economics. 2021; 34 (1):167-168.

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Jesper Stage. 2021. "Tony Addison and Alan Roe (ed.): Extractive Industries: The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable Development." Mineral Economics 34, no. 1: 167-168.

Research article
Published: 06 November 2020 in Natural Resource Modeling
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Both in the United States and in Europe there is ongoing work on reversing habitat fragmentation and the attendant loss in biodiversity in river systems caused by hydropower and other developments. Fish ladders and other measures are being introduced to restore the connectivity in river systems. In this paper, we set up a theoretical model to investigate what the conditions are for such an investment to be socially profitable. We find that, even in cases where it would have been socially preferable not to build hydropower installations in the first place, connectivity‐restoring measures affecting the installations are not necessarily socially beneficial. This is the case for a wide range of plausible assumptions about discount rates, investment costs and productivity losses. Recommendations for Resource Managers: Even in situations where it would have been socially preferable not to build hydropower plants in a river, carrying out measures now to reconnect different parts of the river and re‐establish ecological connectivity may not be socially desirable. Any economic analysis of the value of re‐establishing ecological connectivity needs to consider the time lags involved until the river ecology is restored. Reducing the time lags by actively resettling species does not necessarily improve the overall social profitability of reconnecting the different parts of the river.

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Wisdom Akpalu; Jesper Stage. Connectivity at a cost: Economic dynamics of restoring habitat connectivity. Natural Resource Modeling 2020, 34, 1 .

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Wisdom Akpalu, Jesper Stage. Connectivity at a cost: Economic dynamics of restoring habitat connectivity. Natural Resource Modeling. 2020; 34 (1):1.

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Wisdom Akpalu; Jesper Stage. 2020. "Connectivity at a cost: Economic dynamics of restoring habitat connectivity." Natural Resource Modeling 34, no. 1: 1.

Case report
Published: 22 June 2020 in Sustainability
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Land, as a valuable natural resource, is an important pillar of Rwanda’s sustainable development. The majority of Rwanda’s 80% rural population rely on agriculture for their livelihood, and land is crucial for agriculture. However, since a high population density has made land a scarce commodity, growth in the agricultural sector and plans for rapid urbanisation are being constrained, and cross-sectoral trade-offs are becoming increasingly important, with a risk that long-term sustainability may be threatened if these trade-offs are not considered. To help track land value trends and assess trade-offs, and to help assess the sustainability of trends in land use and land cover, Rwanda has begun developing natural capital accounts for land in keeping with the United Nations’ System of Environmental-Economic Accounting. This paper reports on Rwanda’s progress with these accounts. The accounting approach adopted in our study measures changes in land use and land cover and quantifies stocks for the period under study (2014–2015). Rwanda is one of the first developing countries to develop natural capital accounts for land, but the wide range of possible uses in policy analysis suggests that such accounts could be useful for other countries as well.

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Grace Nishimwe; Didier Milindi Rugema; Claudine Uwera; Cor Graveland; Jesper Stage; Swaib Munyawera; Gabriel Ngabirame. Natural Capital Accounting for Land in Rwanda. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5070 .

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Grace Nishimwe, Didier Milindi Rugema, Claudine Uwera, Cor Graveland, Jesper Stage, Swaib Munyawera, Gabriel Ngabirame. Natural Capital Accounting for Land in Rwanda. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5070.

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Grace Nishimwe; Didier Milindi Rugema; Claudine Uwera; Cor Graveland; Jesper Stage; Swaib Munyawera; Gabriel Ngabirame. 2020. "Natural Capital Accounting for Land in Rwanda." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5070.

Article
Published: 01 May 2020 in Natural Resources Forum
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This paper studies how fisheries services are classified in the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework for trade in services and discusses the potential impact of unclear classifications. The WTO plays a key role in regulation and assessment in the area of trade in services, mainly due to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which contains the only set of multilateral rules managing such trade internationally. The purpose of GATS is to create a credible and reliable system of international trade rules that ensures fair treatment of all participants. Through negotiations, individual countries establish commitments to provide market access and limiting national treatment in various service sectors. During such negotiations, the classification of services is a prerequisite to ensure unambiguous and comparable commitments. However, the classification list used by the WTO, namely the W/120, is based on, and corresponds to, old versions of other classification lists, leading to unclear classifications. This lack of clarity in sectoral classifications makes policy analysis unnecessarily difficult and creates a risk that trade agreements may be interpreted differently by different parties.

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Emma Will; Maria Pettersson; Jesper Stage. Trade in fisheries services under the WTO and GATS framework. Natural Resources Forum 2020, 44, 161 -175.

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Emma Will, Maria Pettersson, Jesper Stage. Trade in fisheries services under the WTO and GATS framework. Natural Resources Forum. 2020; 44 (2):161-175.

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Emma Will; Maria Pettersson; Jesper Stage. 2020. "Trade in fisheries services under the WTO and GATS framework." Natural Resources Forum 44, no. 2: 161-175.

Journal article
Published: 09 January 2020 in World Development
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Household agricultural production for self-consumption is often highlighted by nutritionists as the main route to increasing household food security and nutritional status, especially for the poor in developing countries. At the same time, the income gains from specializing in fewer crops and selling the surplus product could be an alternate route to improved nutritional status. We use Tanzanian data to study linkages between the diversity and market orientation of a household’s agricultural production, the quality and diversity of their diets, and the nutritional status of their children. We find that diversifying a household’s agricultural production significantly increases diversity in that household’s diet, but the positive nutritional effects are small. We also find that market orientation has no clear effect on dietary diversity. At the same time, however, the nutritional status of children is not found to be linked clearly to general dietary diversity. On the other hand, factors such as education and overall income have strong and significant effects on both household dietary diversity and child nutrition. Thus, policies for increasing the quality of children’s diets, improving children’s nutritional status and enhancing the overall dietary diversity of farm households should incorporate those factors.

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Martin J. Chegere; Jesper Stage. Agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity and nutritional status: Panel data evidence from Tanzania. World Development 2020, 129, 104856 .

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Martin J. Chegere, Jesper Stage. Agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity and nutritional status: Panel data evidence from Tanzania. World Development. 2020; 129 ():104856.

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Martin J. Chegere; Jesper Stage. 2020. "Agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity and nutritional status: Panel data evidence from Tanzania." World Development 129, no. : 104856.

Articles
Published: 02 October 2019 in Journal of Development Effectiveness
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We replicate and reanalyse data from the randomised controlled trial of a programme originally carried out by Brune and colleagues to facilitate formal savings for Malawian tobacco farmers. The results from their study indicate that offering farmers access to personal savings accounts increased farmers’ banking transactions and enhanced the well-being of their households. Our pure replication, as well as our estimation analyses, support the conclusions from the original study. We also conducted a separate analysis focussing on the subset of farmers who chose to make use of the savings vehicles offered. We found that this subset of farmers, compared with the overall treatment group, had far greater positive effects on their agricultural output.

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Jesper Stage; Tharshini Thangavelu. Savings revisited: a replication study of a savings intervention in Malawi. Journal of Development Effectiveness 2019, 11, 313 -326.

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Jesper Stage, Tharshini Thangavelu. Savings revisited: a replication study of a savings intervention in Malawi. Journal of Development Effectiveness. 2019; 11 (4):313-326.

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Jesper Stage; Tharshini Thangavelu. 2019. "Savings revisited: a replication study of a savings intervention in Malawi." Journal of Development Effectiveness 11, no. 4: 313-326.

Journal article
Published: 30 July 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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In this paper, we discuss the beginning of Rwanda’s current work on natural capital accounts. Many developing countries began similar work on environmental satellite accounts in the 1990s and early 2000s, only to abandon them a few years later when the initial political interest waned. The question arises, therefore, as to whether renewed interest in these accounts has the potential to have a longer-lasting impact on national accounting practices. In Rwanda’s case, the decision was to begin satellite accounting work by focusing on resources where key economic trade-offs between different uses had already begun to be identified by policymakers, and where the gathering of economic statistics had already been improved as a result. It seems likely that this approach could lead to more durable satellite accounts, and that a similar approach would be feasible in many other countries.

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Jesper Stage; Claudine Uwera. Prospects for establishing environmental satellite accounts in a developing country: The case of Rwanda. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 200, 219 -230.

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Jesper Stage, Claudine Uwera. Prospects for establishing environmental satellite accounts in a developing country: The case of Rwanda. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 200 ():219-230.

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Jesper Stage; Claudine Uwera. 2018. "Prospects for establishing environmental satellite accounts in a developing country: The case of Rwanda." Journal of Cleaner Production 200, no. : 219-230.

Journal article
Published: 23 April 2018 in Development Policy Review
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We describe a public good experiment, a type of economic experiment commonly used to examine feelings of prosociality and community cohesion, carried out in Rwanda. Contributions in different parts of the country are affected by the local intensity of the 1994 genocide, with more generous contributions being made in areas where violence was greater. This supports earlier research indicating that conflict experience leads to greater prosociality. However, we also find that people who have not, themselves, been targets of violence give lower contributions than people who have. The considerable group-related and regional differences in social behaviour may have implications for the country's policies to deal with social cohesion. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Jesper Stage; Claudine Uwera. Social cohesion in Rwanda: Results from a public good experiment. Development Policy Review 2018, 36, 577 -586.

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Jesper Stage, Claudine Uwera. Social cohesion in Rwanda: Results from a public good experiment. Development Policy Review. 2018; 36 (5):577-586.

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Jesper Stage; Claudine Uwera. 2018. "Social cohesion in Rwanda: Results from a public good experiment." Development Policy Review 36, no. 5: 577-586.

Journal article
Published: 28 March 2018 in Waste Management
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Swedish legislation makes municipalities responsible for recycling or disposing of household waste. Municipalities therefore play an important role in achieving Sweden’s increased levels of ambition in the waste management area and in achieving the goal of a more circular economy. This paper studies how two municipal policy instruments – weight-based waste tariffs and special systems for the collection of food waste – affect the collected volumes of different types of waste. We find that a system of collecting food waste separately is more effective overall than imposing weight-based waste tariffs in respect not only of reducing the amounts of waste destined for incineration, but also of increasing materials recycling and biological recovery, despite the fact that the direct incentive effects of these two systems should be similar. Separate food waste collection was associated with increased recycling not only of food waste but also of other waste. Introducing separate food waste collection indirectly signals to households that recycling is important and desirable, and our results suggest that this signalling effect may be as important as direct incentive effects.

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Camilla Andersson; Jesper Stage. Direct and indirect effects of waste management policies on household waste behaviour: The case of Sweden. Waste Management 2018, 76, 19 -27.

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Camilla Andersson, Jesper Stage. Direct and indirect effects of waste management policies on household waste behaviour: The case of Sweden. Waste Management. 2018; 76 ():19-27.

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Camilla Andersson; Jesper Stage. 2018. "Direct and indirect effects of waste management policies on household waste behaviour: The case of Sweden." Waste Management 76, no. : 19-27.

Journal article
Published: 28 December 2017 in Applied Economics Letters
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Jesper Stage. Living in a bubble: potential gains from flexible water management policies. Applied Economics Letters 2017, 25, 1368 -1372.

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Jesper Stage. Living in a bubble: potential gains from flexible water management policies. Applied Economics Letters. 2017; 25 (19):1368-1372.

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Jesper Stage. 2017. "Living in a bubble: potential gains from flexible water management policies." Applied Economics Letters 25, no. 19: 1368-1372.

Book chapter
Published: 12 December 2017 in Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation
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For this chapter, we studied credit markets for smallholder shrimp farmers in Bangladesh. Specifically, we studied whether the increasingly popular small-scale formal credits – microcredits – are reaching those who are most likely to use the borrowed funds successfully. Our findings suggest that this may not be the case. We compared farmers who only borrowed formally with those who also used informal loans, and found that, on average, when people only borrowed formally, it was because they were worse credit risks and were shut off from informal loans, rather than because the formal loans were sufficient to cover their credit needs.

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Camilla Andersson; Erik Holmgren; James MacGregor; Jesper Stage. Towards inclusion through lessons from informal money lenders. Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation 2017, 68 -86.

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Camilla Andersson, Erik Holmgren, James MacGregor, Jesper Stage. Towards inclusion through lessons from informal money lenders. Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation. 2017; ():68-86.

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Camilla Andersson; Erik Holmgren; James MacGregor; Jesper Stage. 2017. "Towards inclusion through lessons from informal money lenders." Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation , no. : 68-86.

Journal article
Published: 05 October 2017 in Research Ideas and Outcomes
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Kristina Ek; Susana Goytia; Carina Lundmark; Soili Nysten-Haarala; Maria Pettersson; Annica Sandström; Johanna Söderasp; Jesper Stage. Challenges in Swedish hydropower – politics, economics and rights. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2017, 3, 1 .

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Kristina Ek, Susana Goytia, Carina Lundmark, Soili Nysten-Haarala, Maria Pettersson, Annica Sandström, Johanna Söderasp, Jesper Stage. Challenges in Swedish hydropower – politics, economics and rights. Research Ideas and Outcomes. 2017; 3 ():1.

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Kristina Ek; Susana Goytia; Carina Lundmark; Soili Nysten-Haarala; Maria Pettersson; Annica Sandström; Johanna Söderasp; Jesper Stage. 2017. "Challenges in Swedish hydropower – politics, economics and rights." Research Ideas and Outcomes 3, no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 22 December 2016 in Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy
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This article studies anglers’ willingness to pay for improvements in the characteristics of fishing sites in the county of Jämtland in Sweden. We use two existing angling sites, and hypothetical sites similar to these, to explore transferability of responses between different sites and to examine the welfare effects of improvements in fishing site characteristics. We find that anglers have highly heterogenous preferences, and that modelling this heterogeneity using latent class models leads to different classes being estimated for the two different sites studied. This heterogeneity implies that policy interventions need to consider the specific characteristics of the angling groups being targeted by the intervention, but the heterogeneity also affects the precision with which estimates from one angling site can be applied to another site.

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Tharshini Thangavelu; Anton Paulrud; Jesper Stage. Understanding heterogeneous preferences for angling site attributes: application of a choice experiment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 2016, 6, 324 -340.

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Tharshini Thangavelu, Anton Paulrud, Jesper Stage. Understanding heterogeneous preferences for angling site attributes: application of a choice experiment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. 2016; 6 (3):324-340.

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Tharshini Thangavelu; Anton Paulrud; Jesper Stage. 2016. "Understanding heterogeneous preferences for angling site attributes: application of a choice experiment." Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 6, no. 3: 324-340.

Journal article
Published: 21 November 2016 in Applied Economics Letters
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Mikael Arvidsson; James Sjöstrand; Jesper Stage. The economics of the Swedish online gambling market. Applied Economics Letters 2016, 24, 1 -3.

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Mikael Arvidsson, James Sjöstrand, Jesper Stage. The economics of the Swedish online gambling market. Applied Economics Letters. 2016; 24 (16):1-3.

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Mikael Arvidsson; James Sjöstrand; Jesper Stage. 2016. "The economics of the Swedish online gambling market." Applied Economics Letters 24, no. 16: 1-3.

Journal article
Published: 12 May 2016 in SpringerPlus
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A number of studies have found that foreign direct investment (FDI) can have positive impacts on productivity. However, while FDI has clearly positive impacts on technology transfers, its effects on resource use within firms is less clear and, in principle, efficiency losses might offset some of the productivity gains associated with improved technologies. In this paper, we study the impacts of FDI on efficiency in Swedish manufacturing. We find that foreign ownership has positive impacts on efficiency, supporting the earlier findings on productivity.

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Dick Svedin; Jesper Stage. Impacts of foreign direct investment on efficiency in Swedish manufacturing. SpringerPlus 2016, 5, 1 -17.

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Dick Svedin, Jesper Stage. Impacts of foreign direct investment on efficiency in Swedish manufacturing. SpringerPlus. 2016; 5 (1):1-17.

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Dick Svedin; Jesper Stage. 2016. "Impacts of foreign direct investment on efficiency in Swedish manufacturing." SpringerPlus 5, no. 1: 1-17.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2015 in Environment and Development Economics
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In Rwanda, rural water supply is not uniformly distributed. Rural areas are characterized by differences in the distance to the nearest water point and in water quality for domestic water, by watering frequency and water availability for irrigation water, and by the price for both. A household's perception of further improvements in water supply will, therefore, depend heavily on the situation it currently faces. The authors used a choice experiment to model how the individual status quo (SQ) affects preferences. Accounting for individual SQ information improves model significance relative to simply using the generic SQ parameter in the model, and the willingness to pay increases. Not using this information leads to a downward bias – and, in some cases, statistical insignificance – in estimates of households’ valuation of health improvements linked to improved domestic water availability, as well as of increased watering frequency linked to the improved availability of irrigation water.

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Claudine Uwera; Jesper Stage. Individual status quo modelling for a rural water service in Rwanda: application of a choice experiment. Environment and Development Economics 2015, 21, 490 -511.

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Claudine Uwera, Jesper Stage. Individual status quo modelling for a rural water service in Rwanda: application of a choice experiment. Environment and Development Economics. 2015; 21 (4):490-511.

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Claudine Uwera; Jesper Stage. 2015. "Individual status quo modelling for a rural water service in Rwanda: application of a choice experiment." Environment and Development Economics 21, no. 4: 490-511.

Journal article
Published: 05 June 2015 in Environment and Development Economics
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The paper analyzes the economic impacts of climate change-induced fluctuations on the performance of Ethiopia's agriculture, using a countrywide computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. We model the impacts on agriculture using a Ricardian model, where current agricultural production is modelled as a function of temperature and precipitation, among other things, and where future agriculture is assumed to follow the same climate function. The effect of overall climate change is projected to be relatively benign until approximately 2030, but will become considerably worse thereafter. Our simulation results indicate that, over a 50-year period, the projected reduction in agricultural productivity may lead to reductions in average income of some 20 per cent compared with the outcome that would have prevailed in the absence of climate change. This indicates that adaptation policies – both government planned and those that ease autonomous adaptation by farmers – will be crucial for Ethiopia's future development.

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Zenebe Gebreegziabher; Jesper Stage; Alemu Mekonnen; Atlaw Alemu. Climate change and the Ethiopian economy: a CGE analysis. Environment and Development Economics 2015, 21, 205 -225.

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Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Jesper Stage, Alemu Mekonnen, Atlaw Alemu. Climate change and the Ethiopian economy: a CGE analysis. Environment and Development Economics. 2015; 21 (2):205-225.

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Zenebe Gebreegziabher; Jesper Stage; Alemu Mekonnen; Atlaw Alemu. 2015. "Climate change and the Ethiopian economy: a CGE analysis." Environment and Development Economics 21, no. 2: 205-225.

Preprint
Published: 05 June 2015
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In this paper, we study the determinants of rental values in urban housing markets in Kigali, Rwanda. In particular, we study the value of access to piped water; due to the high costs associated with installing new piped connections, renting a property with an existing connection is often the only way for low income households to access piped water. Our results indicate that extending the piped network to a new house will in many cases raise the rental value of the house enough to pay for the cost of installing the new connection in less than two years.

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Johanna Choumert; Jesper Stage; Claudine Uwera. Access to water as a determinant of rental values: A hedonic analysis in Rwanda. 2015, 1 .

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Johanna Choumert, Jesper Stage, Claudine Uwera. Access to water as a determinant of rental values: A hedonic analysis in Rwanda. . 2015; ():1.

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Johanna Choumert; Jesper Stage; Claudine Uwera. 2015. "Access to water as a determinant of rental values: A hedonic analysis in Rwanda." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 27 January 2015 in Animal Conservation
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M. N. Humavindu; J. Stage. Continuous financial support will be needed. Animal Conservation 2015, 18, 18 -19.

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M. N. Humavindu, J. Stage. Continuous financial support will be needed. Animal Conservation. 2015; 18 (1):18-19.

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M. N. Humavindu; J. Stage. 2015. "Continuous financial support will be needed." Animal Conservation 18, no. 1: 18-19.