Annet Adong is a Post-Doctoral Researcher affiliated to the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn as well as a Research Associate at the Center for Population and Applied Statistics at Makerere University. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from University of Bonn and a Masters in Development and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Life Sciences Norway. Her research focuses on Agriculture, Conflicts, and Forced displacements mainly in Sub Saharan Africa. In her research, Annet has explored the consequences of Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacement on Consumption pathways and Social preferences, and has examined the prosocial behavior of hosts towards refugees and how this influences informal contractual arrangements between the two. She has also explored how exposure to conflict influences consumption pathways in post-conflict contexts. In other research, she has examined the constraints to the adoption of inorganic fertilizer in Uganda using an RCT design.
In the past, Annet has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Effective Global Action, University of California Berkeley and a member of research networks such as the East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) and the Network for Impact Evaluators in Africa (NIERA). Both networks aim at building the capacity of local grown researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa to be at the helm of conducting rigorous impact evaluations.
Annet Adong is a Post-Doctoral Researcher affiliated to the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn as well as a Research Associate at the Center for Population and Applied Statistics at Makerere University. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from University of Bonn and a Masters in Development and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Life Sciences Norway. Her research focuses on Agriculture, Conflicts, and Forced displacements mainly in Sub Saharan Africa. In her research, Annet has explored the consequences of Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacement on Consumption pathways and Social preferences, and has examined the prosocial behavior…