Dagim Belay

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

Affiliations:

• 2018—Present       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

My main areas of research focus on applying impact evaluation techniques to provide policy insights in health, agriculture, development, and environment.

 

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 lies within applied microeconomics of agro-environment, health, and innovation. I'm affiliated with CeBIL, where my role primarily focuses on applying impact evaluation and other techniques of economic analysis to provide policy insights in health and biomedical innovation.

Selected Publications

 

‘The scarlet letters’: Information disclosure and self-regulation: Evidence from antibiotic use in Denmark

Belay, Dagim & Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård, 30 Sept. 2020, (Accepted/In press) In Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

A Montero auction mechanism to regulate antimicrobial consumption in agriculture

Belay, Dagim, Abate, T. G. & Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård. 2020. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 102(5):1448-1467.

 

Nudging farmers in crop choice using price information: Evidence from Ethiopian Commodity Exchange

 

Belay, Dagim & Tiruneh, H. A. 2020. Agricultural Economics 51(5): 793– 807

 

Teaching

Microeconomic and Econometric Production Analysis, Economics of Intellectual Property Rights