Bezawit Adugna Bahru

Bezawit Adugna Bahru is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Hohenheim and an East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) fellow affiliated with the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research employs survey data and large-scale experiments to investigate the transformative impacts of social protection programs, gender disparities in agricultural productivity, time poverty, women's economic empowerment, and the role of digitalization in shaping rural land markets. Bezawit earned her PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Hohenheim. Her current research focuses on Ethiopia, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Uganda.

Bezawit is a CSAE Visiting Fellow in 2025.