Browsing Brage NMBU by Author "Holden, Stein Terje"
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Demand for second-stage land certification in Ethiopia: Evidence from household panel data
Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014) -
Disability types and children’s schooling in Africa
Zhang, Huafeng; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;04/22, Working paper, 2022)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set up by the United Nations include an overarching principle of “leaving no one behind” and aim for, among other goals, equal access to education for children with disabilities. ... -
Does Ethiopia's productive safety net program improve child nutrition?
Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; Shively, Gerald; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:1, Working paper, 2014)We study the link between Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and short-run nutrition outcomes among children age 5 years and younger. We use 2006 and 2010 survey data from Northern Ethiopia to estimate parameters ... -
Does land registration and certification reduce land border conflicts?
Holden, Stein Terje; Deininger, Klaus; Ghebru, Hosaena (CLTS Working paper;2011:5, Working paper, 2011)This paper assesses factors related to local land border conflicts and how low cost land registration and certification has affected land conflicts during and after land registration and certification using data from ... -
Economy-wide effects of input subsidies in Malawi : market imperfections and household heterogeneity
Skjeflo, Sofie Waage; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:7, Working paper, 2014)The potential benefits of providing subsidized inputs to farm-households in developing countries may reach well beyond the targeted households. More specifically, increased food productionand demand for rural labor may benefit ... -
Eiendomsrettigheter og jordleie i Rissa gjennom 900 år
Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:9, Working paper, 2014)Denne artikkelen bygger på lokale bygdebøker fra Rissa kommune i Sør-Trøndelag. De gir en mer eller mindre detaljert bygdehistorie som går 900 år tilbake. Artikkelen fokuserer på eiendomsrettsstrukturen og jordleie innen ... -
Endowment effects in the risky investment game?
Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The risky investment game of Gneezy and Potters (Q J Econ 112(2):631–645, 1997) has been proposed as a simple tool to measure risk aversion in applied settings, especially attractive in settings where participants may have ... -
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 ... -
Explaining anomalies in intertemporal choice : a mental zooming theory
Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:2, Working paper, 2014)I present a theory that can explain hyperbolic discounting and magnitude effects in intertemporal choice. This approach builds on theories of narrow framing and reference dependence and expands these theories in a novel ... -
Fertilizer and sustainable intensification in Africa
Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2018:1, Working paper, 2018)The paper investigates the important role of fertilizer to enhance sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa based on a multi-disciplinary literature review. The review starts with a macro-perspective ... -
Fifty Years of Research on Land Tenure Policies and Land Markets: What Are the Major Lessons?
Holden, Stein Terje (Chapter, 2023)This study makes a broad review of important contributions by economists to the understanding of land and labor contracts in agriculture and the analyses of major land tenure reforms in the twentieth century. Possible ... -
Food for work and diet diversity in Ethiopia
Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; Shively, Gerald; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2017:14, Working paper, 2017)We use four waves of panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the link between Food for Work (FFW) participation and the diversity of food consumption and production. Food-based transfer programs have become a ... -
Gender differences in risk tolerance, trust and trustworthiness: Are they related?
Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2018:3, Working paper, 2018)The paper assesses risk tolerance, trust and trustworthiness among male and female youth group members in recently formed primary cooperative businesses in Ethiopia. Male members are found to be more risk tolerant, trusting ... -
Gender Digital Divide and Youth Business Group Leadership.
Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2018:5, Working paper, 2018)We assess the gender difference in mobile phone ownership among youth business group members, and how it affects election into leadership and group board positions in recently established rural youth business groups in ... -
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 ... -
Group trust in youth business groups : influenced by risk tolerance and expected trustworthiness
Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2017:13, Working paper, 2017)We analyzed lab-in-the-field trust and risk experiment with 1125 youth in 119 youth groups established as primary cooperatives to develop a joint business. The experiments were implemented using classrooms in local schools ... -
High discount rates : an artifact caused by poorly framed experiments or a result of people being poor and vulnerable?
Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2013:8, Working paper, 2013)This study revisits the issue whether poverty and shocks are associated with high discount rates by using an incentive compatible Multiple Price List approach in a poor rural population in Africa where a substantial share ... -
Homo economicus på NMBU : en komparativ studie av økonomistudenter og ikke-økonomistudenter
Stene, Eirin (Master thesis, 2017)A number of independent studies have shown that those who study economics are more prone to selfish behavior than students of other subjects. One explanation behind these findings seems to be that there is an ideological ... -
Household welfare effects of low-cost land certification in Ethiopia
Holden, Stein Terje; Ghebru, Hosaena (CLTS Working Paper;2011:3, Working paper, 2011)Several studies have shown that the land registration and certification reform in Ethiopia has been implemented at an impressive speed, at a low-cost, and with significant impacts on investment, land productivity, and ... -
How does Ethiopia’s productive safety net program affect livestock accumulation and children’s education?
Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:8, Working paper, 2014)We use panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the welfare impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program. We assess whether the program raised livestock asset levels and children’s education among participant ...