Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Holden, Stein T."
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Gender assessment of youth business groups : female participation and characteristics
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;6/19, Working paper, 2019)This working paper is an output from the research project “Youth Business Groups for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Ethiopian Model” that is funded by Research Council of Norway under the NORGLOBAL2 research ... -
Gender differences in investments and risk preferences
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;02/22, Working paper, 2022)We analyze individual investment behavior among 822 young men and women that are members of 111 formal business groups in northern Ethiopia.We collected baseline data and investment data one year later combined with ... -
Gender dimensions of land tenure reforms in Ethiopia 1995-2020
Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;06/20, Working paper, 2020)This chapter investigates how land tenure reforms in Ethiopia have influenced the position of women in terms of land tenure security, access to land, decision-power over land within households, as well as the gendered ... -
How are social preferences of youth related to their motivation to invest in environmental conservation (local public goods)?
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;03/21, Working paper, 2021)We have used simple incentivized social preference experiments for a sample of 2427 resource-poor rural youth that have formed natural-resource based youth business groups in their home communities. The experiments were ... -
How do social preferences and norms of reciprocity affect generalized and particularized trust?
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;8/19, Working paper, 2019)We study how social preferences and norms of reciprocity are related to generalized and particularized trust among members of youth business groups in northern Ethiopia. Members of these groups are recruited among land-poor ... -
How Large is the Endowment Effect in the Risky Investment Game?
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;04/21, Working paper, 2021)The risky investment game of Gneezy and Potters (1997) has been a popular tool used to estimate risk tolerance and myopic loss aversion. Holden and Tilahun (2021) tested and found that the simple one-shot version of this ... -
How related are risk preferences and time preferences?
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;4/19, Working paper, 2019)Risk and time preferences are fundamentally important for financial decisions. We study such preferences for business group members based on field experiments in Ethiopia. The relationship between risk preferences and time ... -
How WEIRD are student samples? Lessons based on the trust game in Malawi
Holden, Stein T.; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin; Katengeza, Samson (CLTS Working paper;06/23, Working paper, 2023-11)We have used the standard trust game on a random sample of university students (N=764) and a random sample of rural residents (N=834) in Malawi. The study identifies social preference types (Bauer, Chytilov´a, & Pertold-Gebicka, ... -
Intertemporal Choice Lists and Maximal Likelihood Estimation of Discount Rates
Sommervoll, Dag Einar; Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;09/23, Working paper, 2023-12)The experiments designed to estimate real-life discount rates in intertemporal choice often rely on ordered choice lists, where the list by design aims to capture a switch point between near- and far-future alternatives. ... -
Irrigation Development, Land Tenure and Climate Shocks among Farmers in the Flood Plain of Malawi: A Pre-Analysis Plan and Documentation for Ethical Approval by Institutional Review Board at NMBU
Tione, Sarah; Holden, Stein T.; Katengeza, Samson; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Report;03/24, Report, 2024-07)This is a plan for the final component of the “Experiments for Development of Climate Smart Agriculture” (SMARTEX), which is a collaborative research and capacity-building program with School of Economics and Business (SEB) ... -
Is diminishing impatience in time-dated risky prospects explained by probability weighting?
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (CLTS Working paper;03/22, Working paper, 2022)We use a field experiment and a within-subject design based on multiple Choice Lists (CLs) that integrate time and risk. Diminishing impatience with extended time horizons is studied by varying time horizons from one week ... -
Knowledge, beliefs, perceptions, and behavior related to the corona (COVID-19) pandemic among university students in Malawi
Holden, Stein T.; Katengeza, Samson; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;07/22, Working paper, 2022-06)This study is based on a survey of 764 students at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Lilongwe, Malawi. It aims to provide evidence on the extent of exposure to the pandemic among ... -
Land markets and agricultural household decisions nexus in Malawi
Tione, Sarah Ephrida (PhD Thesis;2020:71, Doctoral thesis, 2020)The general trend of agricultural land in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to tilt towards land scarcity emanating from farm household-level population pressure and increase in urbanisation rates. Understanding the ... -
Land rental as a complementary income source for land-poor youth
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;6/18, Working paper, 2018)Continued high population growth in already densely populated rural areas in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa makes it harder for youth to choose agriculture as their main source of income. We investigate whether near landless ... -
Magnitude Effects and Utility Curvature in Inter-temporal Choice
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (CLTS Working paper;08/20, Working paper, 2020)The appropriate way to empirically estimate time-dated utility and time preferences based on experimental data has been subject to controversy. Our study assesses whether within-subject magnitude treatments are more ... -
Measurement Error and Farm Size: Do Nationally Representative Surveys Provide Reliable Estimates?
Holden, Stein T.; Makate, Clifton; Tione, Sarah (CLTS Working paper;07/23, Working paper, 2023-12)We assess the reliability of measured farm sizes (ownership holdings) in the Living Standard Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) in Ethiopia and Malawi based on three survey rounds (2012, 2014, ... -
Mental Zooming as Variable Asset Integration in Inter-temporal Choice
Holden, Stein T.; Sommervoll, Dag Einar; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;07/20, Working paper, 2020)Our time preferences deviate systematically from that of Homo economicus. They seem to be driven by a form of mental zooming, where higher and more distant payouts induce a more holistic perspective in contrast to smaller ... -
Numeracy skills learning of children in Africa: - Are disabled children lagging behind?
Zhang, Huafeng; Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;10/22, Working paper, 2022-11)Significant progress has been achieved in universal basic education in African countries since the late 1990s. This study provides empirical evidence on the within- and across-country variation in numeracy skills performance ... -
Numeracy Skills, Decision Errors, and Risk Preference Estimation
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;05/23, Working paper, 2023-09)Basic numeracy skills are obviously important for rational decisionmaking when agents are facing choices between risky prospects. Poor and vulnerable people with limited education and numeracy skills live in risky environments ... -
The Predictive Power of Luck: Luck and Risk-Taking in a Repeated Risky Investment Game
Holden, Stein T.; Tione, Sarah; Katengeza, Samson; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;09/22, Working paper, 2022-10)Can luck predict risk-taking behavior in games of chance? Economists have not widely studied this issue although overconfidence, optimism-, and pessimism bias have received substantial attention in recent years. In this ...