Browsing Brage NMBU by Author "Bezu, Sosina"
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Activity choice in rural non-farm employment (RNFE) : survival versus accumulative strategy
Bezu, Sosina; Barrett, Christopher B.; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:11, Working paper, 2014)This paper examines the nonfarm employment choice of individuals using panel data from Ethiopia that covers the period 1994-2004. Non-farm activities that require more resources in the form of skill or capital yield higher ... -
Are wives less selfish than their husbands? Evidence from Hawk-Dove game field experiments
Holden, Stein Terje; Bezu, Sosina (CLTS Working paper;2014:3, Working paper, 2014)Lab-in-the-field Hawk-Dove game experiments were played by spouses in a rural sample of households in Southern Ethiopia where women/wives traditionally have a weak position. Randomized treatments included a 3x3 design with ... -
Demand for second-stage land certification in Ethiopia: Evidence from household panel data
Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014) -
Exchange asymmetries in productive assets: Tools, fertilizer or cash?
Holden, Stein Terje; Bezu, Sosina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Exchange asymmetries in individual decision-making have attracted substantial attention from economists since Thaler (1980) referred to the phenomenon that losses are weighted more heavily than gains as an ‘‘endowment ... -
Generosity and social distance in dictator game field experiments with and without a face
Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2013:1, Working paper, 2013)Field experiments combining dictator games with stated preference questions are used to elicit within subject and between subject sharing behavior with known family members and anonymous villager. A simple theoretical model ... -
How pro-poor are land rental markets in Ethiopia?
Holden, Stein Terje; Bezu, Sosina; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Report;2016:1, Report, 2016)This study builds on data collected over a 15 year period (1998-2013) in three regions in Ethiopia through funding from the Research Council of Norway, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NORAD, Global Land Tools Network ... -
Joint land certification and intra-household decision-making : towards empowerment of wives?
Holden, Stein Terje; Bezu, Sosina (CLTS Working paper;2013:14, Working paper, 2013)We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess the effects of joint land certification of husbands and wives on wives’ involvement ... -
Joint land certification, gendered preferences, and land-related decisions : are wives getting more involved?
Holden, Stein Terje; Bezu, Sosina (CLTS Working paper;2014:6, Working paper, 2014)We have investigated whether joint land certification in Southern Ethiopia has contributed to a strengthening of the perceived land rights of women and an increase in their intra-household involvement in land-related ... -
Land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia
Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2013:11, Working paper, 2013)Ethiopia. Access to agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant districts of Oromia Region and from the land scarce districts of Southern ... -
Land valuation and perceptions of land sales prohibition in Ethiopia
Holden, Stein Terje; Bezu, Sosina (CLTS Working paper;2014:12, Working paper, 2014)This study investigates attitudes towards legalizing land sales and Willingness to Accept (WTA) sales prices and compensation prices for land among smallholder households in four different areas in the Oromia and SNNP ... -
Rural nonfarm employment in Ethiopia : participation, impacts and dynamics
Bezu, Sosina (PhD Thesis;2010:20, Doctoral thesis, 2010)This thesis consists of four papers analyzing the different facets of rural nonfarm employment in Ethiopia. The analyses in this thesis are mainly based on panel data of more than 1400 rural household in Ethiopia. The ... -
Rural-urban youth migration and informal self-employment in Ethiopia
Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Report;2014:1, Report, 2014)Rural-urban migration has been historically low in Ethiopia. But recent years have seen a surge in all parts of Ethiopia. This is partly related to access to agricultural land in rural areas. Access to farm land is a ... -
Street based self-employment : a poverty trap or a stepping stone for migrant youth in Africa?
Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working Paper;2015:4, Working paper, 2015)A significant percentage of youth in urban Africa is employed in the informal sector. The informal sector is more accessible than the formal sector for people with low human and financial capital, such as youth migrants ... -
Tools, fertilizer or cash? : exchange asymmetries in productive assets
Holden, Stein Terje; Bezu, Sosina (CLTS Working paper;2014:13, Working paper, 2014)We used a field experiment to investigate exchange asymmetries in productive assets among poor rural respondents in Ethiopia. Farmers were randomly allocated two types of productive assets or cash, with a choice to keep ... -
Unbundling land administrative reform : demand for second stage land certification in Ethiopia
Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2013:3, Working paper, 2013)Ethiopia has implemented one of the largest, fastest and cheapest land registration and certification reforms in Africa. While there have been evidences of positive impacts of this land reform in terms of increased ...