sustainability Article Examining the Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Net Crop Income in the Ethiopian Nile Basin: A Ricardian Fixed Effect Approach Melese Mulu Baylie 1,2 and Csaba Fogarassy 3,* 1 Department of Economics, Debre Tabor University, Debra Tabor 272, Ethiopia;
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[email protected] Abstract: Climate change affects crop production by distorting the indestructible productive power of the land. The objective of this study is to examine the economic impacts of climate change on net crop income in Nile Basin Ethiopia using a Ricardian fixed effect approach employing the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) household survey data for Ethiopia in 2015 and 2016. The survey samples were obtained through a three-stage stratified sampling technique from the five regions (Amhara, Tigray, Benishangul Gumuz, Oromia, and Southern Nation Nationality and People (SNNP) along the Nile basin Ethiopia. There are only 12–14% female household heads while there are 80–86% male households in the regions under study. In the regions, more than half of (64%) the Citation: Baylie, M.M.; Fogarassy, C. household heads are illiterate and almost only one-tenth of them (12%) had received remittance from Examining the Economic Impacts of abroad from their relatives or children. Crop variety adoption rate is minimal, adopted by the 31% Climate Change on Net Crop Income of farmers.