Browsing Brage NMBU by Author "Tilahun, Mesfin"
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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 distribution in Northern Ethiopia from 1998 to 2016 : gender-disaggregated, spatial and intertemporal variation
Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2017:3, Working paper, 2017)This study utilizes land registry data from the First and Second Stage Land Registration Reforms that took place in 1998 and 2016 in sampled districts and communities in Tigray region of Ethiopia. Tigray was the first ... -
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 ... -
Livelihood diversification and migration intentions among land-poor youth in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: do they correlate with livestock assets, trust, and trustworthiness?
Tilahun, Mesfin; Holden, Stein Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023) -
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 ... -
Mapping farmers’ preferences of cimate change adaptation measures : stated preference and field experiments in Ethiopia
Meressa, Abrha Megos (PhD Thesis;2019:46, Doctoral thesis, 2019)This thesis maps preferences for climate change adaptation measures and ecosystem services among Ethiopian smallholder farmers; by analyzing their decision-making behavior under uncertainty in a framed field experiment, ... -
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 ... -
Mobile phones, leadership and gender in rural business groups
Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Digital information and communication technologies are recognized as vital tools for empowering marginalized groups such as women in low income developing countries through reducing the costs of communication and connectivity. ... -
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 ...