Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Holden, Stein T."
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Access to productive assets and impact on household welfare in rural Uganda
Tatwangire, Alex (PhD Thesis;2011:27, Doctoral thesis, 2011)This thesis assesses the impact of access to productive assets on the welfare of rural farm households in Uganda. It consists of an introduction paper and five other independent papers. Paper I provides robust empirical ... -
Adoption of agricultural technologies in the semi-arid northern Ethiopia: A Panel Data Analysis
Gebru, Menasbo; Holden, Stein T.; Alfnes, Frode (CLTS Working paper;03/20, Working paper, 2020)Agricultural technology change is required in developing countries to increase the robustness to climate-related variability, feed a growing population, and create opportunities for market-oriented production. This study ... -
Are decision errors explaining hyperbolic discounting and non-linear probability weighting?
Holden, Stein T.; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin; Katengeza, Samson (CLTS Working paper;03/24, Working paper, 2024-07)We study risky inter-temporal choice in a large random student sample (n=721) and a large rural sample (n=835) in Malawi. All respondents were exposed to the same 20 Multiple Choice Lists with a rapid elicitation method ... -
Are land-poor youth accessing rented land? : evidence from northern Ethiopia
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;7/19, Working paper, 2019)Continued strong 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 ... -
Beyond Ostrom: Randomized Experiment of the Impact of Individualized Tree Rights on Forest Management in Ethiopia
Takahashi, Ryo; Otsuka, Keijiro; Tilahun, Mesfin; Birhane, Emiru; Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;06/21, Working paper, 2021)In this study, we argue that while community forest management is effective in protecting forest resources as argued by Ostrom, it may fail to provide proper incentives to take care of such resources because of collective ... -
Can climate shocks make vulnerable subjects more willing to take risks?
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;03/23, Working paper, 2023-01)While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed and indicates that risk preferences respond to shocks. This ... -
Can rainfall shocks enhance access to rented land? Evidence from Malawi
Tione, Sarah E.; Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;05/20, Working paper, 2020)This study investigates whether and to what extent rainfall shocks recurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, that have been associated with distress land rentals, enhance short-term and medium-term access to rented land by tenant ... -
Can the risky investment game predict real world investments?
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;05/21, Working paper, 2022)The incentivized risky investment game has become a popular tool in lab-in-the-field experiments for its simplicity and ease of comprehension compared to some of the more complex Multiple Choice List approaches that have ... -
Caste discrimination, land tenure, and natural resource management in Nepal
Aryal, Jeetendra Prakash (PhD Thesis;2011:03, Doctoral thesis, 2011)The dissertation investigates the issues related to land tenancy transactions, land productivity and land related investment with a due focus on caste discrimination in the Nepalese rural society. This study also explores ... -
Civil War Impacts on Youth Business Groups in Tigray: A Pre-Analysis Plan and Documentation for Ethical Approval by Institutional Review Board at NMBU
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin; Sommervoll, Dag Einar; Sandorf, Erlend Dancke (CLTS Report;02/23, Report, 2023-08)This is a revised plan for the finalization of the “Youth Groups for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Ethiopian Model” (Researcher project under NORGLOBAL2, funded by the Research Council of Norway). The project ... -
The Corona pandemic among university students in Malawi
Holden, Stein T.; Katengeza, Samson; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin; Berg, Ørjan; Chimseu, Patrick; Njinga, Blessings (CLTS Working paper;06/21, Working paper, 2022)This study provides the initial survey data from a sample 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 ... -
Country Socio-economic Development and Disparity in School Children's Reading Skills Learning in Africa
Zhang, Huafeng; Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;08/23, Working paper, 2023-12)To achieve the overarching goal of "education for all," there is a growing interest in understanding school learning outcomes and disparities among school children from disadvantaged backgrounds in Africa. This study employs ... -
The Devil is in the details : risk preferences, choice list design, and measurement error
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;3/19, Working paper, 2019)We use a field experiment to estimate the risk preferences of 945 youth and young adult members of 116 rural business groups organized as primary cooperatives in a semi-arid risky environment in northern Ethiopia. Multiple ... -
Disparity in School Children's Reading Skills in 11 African Countries
Zhang, Huafeng; Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;05/24, Working paper, 2024-10)To promote SDG Goal 4 and "education for all", this study investigates children’s basic reading skills in 11 low-income and lower-middle-income African countries, using standardized reading tests from the Multiple Indicator ... -
Does luck make people more optimistic and patient? - Lessons from an experiment with students and rural subjects in Malawi
Holden, Stein T.; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin; Katengeza, Samson (CLTS Working paper;04/24, Working paper, 2024-07)We investigate how random luck in repeated variants of the risky investment game of Gneezy, Leonard, and List (2009); Gneezy and Potters (1997) influences risk-taking and discounting behavior in future risky prospects with ... -
Does War Enhance or Undermine Other-regarding Preferences and Trust?
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;06/24, Working paper, 2024-11)Our study investigates how the devastating 2020-2022 Tigray War has affected the social preferences, reciprocity norms, and trust in a large sample of rural young adults in Tigray, Ethiopia, belonging to rural business ... -
Dominated choices in Risk and Time Elicitation
Sommervoll, Dag Einar; Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;01/24, Working paper, 2024-06)Many risk and time elicitation designs rely on choice lists that aim to capture a switch point. A choice list for a respondent typically contains two switch point defining choices; the other responses are dominated in the ... -
The economic implication of animal feed scarcity on farm intensifcation, food production and consumption : empirical evidence from Tigrai, Ethiopia
Hadush Gebremichael, Muuz (PhD Thesis;2019:64, Doctoral thesis, 2018)This dissertation analyses cattle farming in order to (i) test the hypotheses of Boserup and Malthus in the merits of distinguishing both direct and indirect effects of population pressure on farm intensification, and (ii) ... -
Educational outcomes for primary school children in Africa : with a focus on children with disabilities
Zhang, Huafeng (PhD Thesis;2025:45, Doctoral thesis, 2025)This doctoral dissertation addresses the critical issue of educational inequality for children with disabilities, a group often marginalized in educational systems, by examining school enrollment and learning outcomes for ... -
The effects of gender empowerment training on within-group gender differences in performance and overall group performance: A Pre-Analysis Plan
Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin; Vorlaufer, Tobias; Engel, Stefanie (CLTS Report;2020:1, Report, 2020)This Pre-Analysis Plan is for a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) for recently formed youth business groups in Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Resource-poor rural youth are given a business opportunity by being allocated a ...