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    • 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. ...
    • 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 ...
    • Religion, beliefs, trust, and COVID vaccination behavior among rural people in Malawi 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin; Katengeza, Samson (CLTS Working paper;04/23, Working paper, 2023-01)
      This study investigates the religious and other beliefs related to the corona/COVID-19 pandemic and how they are related to covid risk perceptions, trust in COVID vaccines, and how these are affected by the religious ...
    • Religion, perceptions, and behavior during the corona/COVID- 19 pandemic among university students in Malawi 

      Holden, Stein T.; Katengeza, Samson; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;08/22, Working paper, 2022-06)
      This study investigates the covid risk perceptions, information updating behavior related to the pandemic, use of protective measures, especially facemasks, and the demand for vaccines among university students in Malawi. ...
    • 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 ...
    • Shocks and Stability of Risk Preferences 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;05/21, Working paper, 2021)
      While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed that indicate that risk preferences respond to shocks. This ...