Short presentation

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) in 2018, where I subsequently held a postdoctoral position, and have been a visiting fellow at UC Berkeley and Harvard.  My research combines economic theory, observational data, and randomized experiments to generate policy insights on pressing global challenges in agriculture, environment, health, and development.

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

Fields of interest

Primary Fields of interest: Applied Microeconomics (Agriculture,  Environment, and Natural Resources),  Development Economics.

Secondary Fields of interest: Health Economics, Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights.

Current research

My current research focuses on:

• Information economics in agriculture and environment
• Economics of antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic regulation
• Climate adaptation, sustainable agriculture, and agri-environmental externalities
• Agricultural innovation, technology adoption, and intellectual property rights
• Impact evaluation and causal inference with experimental and observational data

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 

CV

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