Dagim Belay

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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. Previously I was postdoctoral researcher at University of Copenhagen and held visiting fellowships at UC Berkeley and Harvard. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Copenhagen.

Affiliations:

• 2018--Present      Founding  Member, NIERA - Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa

• 2018--Present       Research Fellow, CeBIL - Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen

• 2017--present        Fellow, BITSS - Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

• 2016--present        Fellow, East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST), Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), University of California, Berkeley
• 2014--present        Research fellow, University of Copenhagen Research Center for Control of Antibiotic Resistance (UC-CARE)

Primary fields of research

I combine economic theory, empirical evidence, and randomized experiments to provide policy insights on world’s most pressing issues in agriculture, climate change, health, development, environment, and other related topics.

 

Fields of interest

Primary fields of interest: Applied Microeconomics, Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Health Economics, Development Economics. 

Secondary fields of interest: Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights. 

 

Current research

My current research focuses on:

• Asymmetric information in economic decision-making in the areas of agricultural and environmental economics 
• Technological innovation in agriculture
• Climate change and adaptation and mitigation: Eg., adaptation  behaviour of farmers; incentives, adoption and impact of climate smart agriculture; effectiveness of agri-environmental schemes
• Livestock sector (Eg., antimicrobial resistance, one health, climate mitigation and adaptation, productivity, regulation)
• Study impacts of incentives, regulations, interventions, policies and man-made and natural shocks on economic agents’ behavior in areas of agricultural and environmental economics
• Intellectual property rights 

Selected Publications

Belay, Dagim & Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård. 2020. ‘The scarlet letters’: Information disclosure and self-regulation: Evidence from antibiotic use in Denmark. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 104: 102385.

Belay, Dagim, Abate, T. G. & Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård. 2020. A Montero auction mechanism to regulate antimicrobial consumption in agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 102(5):1448-1467.

Belay, Dagim & Tiruneh, H. A. 2020. Nudging farmers in crop choice using price information: Evidence from Ethiopian Commodity Exchange. Agricultural Economics 51(5): 793– 807.

 

Teaching

Development Economics, Agricultural and Food Policy, Microeconomic and Econometric Production Analysis, Economics of Intellectual Property Rights