Blar i Brage NMBU på forfatter "Tilahun, Mesfin"

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 ...

Are land-poor youth accessing rented land? Evidence from northern Ethiopia

Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

Continued population growth in densely populated parts of Sub-Saharan Africa makes it harder for youth to choose agriculture as main source of income. We investigate whether near landless youth can access rented land as a ...

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 the land rental market facilitate smallholder commercialization? : evidence from northern Ethiopia

Gebru, Menasbo; Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2017:10, Working paper, 2017)

The paper utilizes household panel data to investigate whether the land rental market can facilitate improved access to land for land-poor tenant households over time and thereby facilitate expansion of their farming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...