@article{Mekonnen:285191,
      recid = {285191},
      author = {Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew and Gerber, Nicolas},
      title = {Aspirations and income, food security and subjective  well-being in rural Ethiopia},
      address = {2016-05},
      number = {2201-2019-1471},
      series = {51},
      pages = {38},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {Despite some improvements in recent years, poverty and  food insecurity remain widespread and the main challenges  in Ethiopia. Using individual and household level data  collected in rural Ethiopia, we examine if aspirations are  strongly associated with well-being outcomes, as posited in  the aspirations failure framework articulated by Ray (2006)  and others. We employ both bivariate and multivariate  analyses. We find that aspirations (particularly that of  the household head) are indeed strongly associated with the  household per-capita income and expenditure and with  various triangulating measures of household food  (in)security including per-capita calorie consumption, the  food consumption score (FCS), the household dietary  diversity score (HDDS), and the household food insecurity  access scale (HFIAS). Contrary to a few other studies, we  also find strong evidence that, in rural Ethiopia,  aspirations are positively associated with satisfaction in  life and/or happiness. Findings in this study provide  suggestive evidence that policies aimed at improving  well-being outcomes might benefit from multiple effects  (both direct and indirect) if they incorporate aspirations  raising strategies.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/285191},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.285191},
}