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 (UCPH).

Affiliations:

• 2024-Present     Invited researcher, JPAL, MIT

• 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, UCPH

• 2017-present        Fellow, BITSS - Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, UC Berkeley

• 2016 -      Fellow, Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), UC 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 (Agriculture,  Environment, Natural Resources, and Health),  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 
• Technological innovation in agriculture
• Climate change adaption and mitigation 
• Agricultural and environmental externalities
• Impact evaluation of incentives, interventions, regulations and policies  
• Economics of antimicrobial resistance
• 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

Impact Evaluation, Agricultural and Food Policy, Development Economics