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Tassew Woldehanna
Researcher at Addis Ababa University
Publications - 108
Citations - 2995
Tassew Woldehanna is an academic researcher from Addis Ababa University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Child poverty. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 100 publications receiving 2544 citations. Previous affiliations of Tassew Woldehanna include International Food Policy Research Institute & Wageningen University and Research Centre.
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The Impact of Agricultural Extension and Roads on Poverty and Consumption Growth in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of poverty in rural Ethiopia.
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Shocks and Consumption in 15 Ethiopian Villages, 1999–2004
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The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of education on farmers' attitudes toward endogenous risk (measured using an attitude survey instrument) is estimated with household data from rural Ethiopia, where education of the household head is found to decrease risk-aversion.
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Cohort Profile: The Young Lives Study
Inka Barnett,Proochista Ariana,Stavros Petrou,Mary E. Penny,Le Thuc Duc,S Galab,Tassew Woldehanna,Javier Escobal,Emma Plugge,Jo Boyden +9 more
TL;DR: Investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four low-income countries over a 15-year period found that nutrition, health and well-being, cognitive and physical development, health behaviours and education, as well as the social, demographic and economic status of the household changed.
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Is the adapted Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) developed internationally to measure food insecurity valid in urban and rural households of Ethiopia
Seifu Hagos Gebreyesus,Seifu Hagos Gebreyesus,Torleif Markussen Lunde,Damen Haile Mariam,Tassew Woldehanna,Bernt Lindtjørn +5 more
TL;DR: The HFIAS is a simple and valid tool to measure the access component of household food insecurity, however, the adaptation of questions and wordings and adding examples before application is recommended, as a discrepancy in understanding is found in understanding of some of the nine H FIAS questions.