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Can the land rental market facilitate smallholder commercialization? : evidence from northern Ethiopia
(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 Oil Price Predict the Wheat Price?
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the interrelationship between the oil and the wheat price, trying to establish if the oil price causes the wheat price (in the Granger sence). -
Can the risky investment game predict real world investments?
(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 ... -
Canadian housing prices : a case study using macroeconomic variables and machine learning
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis uses cointegration methods to investigate the extent to which segmentation manifests in the Canadian housing markets. By applying the Johansen, Engel-Granger, and FMOLS models, inference on market segmentation ... -
Carbon fee dividend and public acceptance for increased climate taxes
(Master thesis, 2020)The failure of undervalue or unpriced externalities, such as emissions, have led us to an unsustainable path that threatens our environment, our overall welfare and economic growth. To make the transaction to a “green ... -
Caste discrimination, land reforms and land market performance in Nepal
(CLTS Working Paper;2011:01, Working paper, 2011)The caste system is an intricate part of the institutional structure as well as class formation, political instability and conflicts in Nepal. The most severely discriminated group in the caste system is the Dalits, the ... -
Caste discrimination, land tenure, and natural resource management in Nepal
(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 ... -
Caste, land and labour market imperfections, and land productivity in rural Nepal
(CLTS Working paper;2011:6, Working paper, 2011)This paper provides new evidence on the caste-related land productivity differential and its explanations in rural Nepal using household plot panel data. Low-caste households are found to have significantly higher land ... -
Center for Land Tenure Studies 2022 Annual Report
(CLTS Report;03/23, Report, 2023-12)The Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS) published in 11 working papers and 14 peer reviewed journal articles. The published worked covered issues around land tenure policies, land markets, housing markets, environmental ... -
Centre for Land Tenure Studies 2019 Annual Report
(CLTS Report;2020:2, Report, 2020)In the year 2019, the Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS) has produced 9 working papers. These papers were circulated on both the CLTS webpage and the Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics (S-WoPEc) webpage. The papers ... -
Centre for Land Tenure Studies 2021 Annual Report
(CLTS Annual paper;01/22, Others, 2021)The work of the Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS) in 2021 included 6 working papers and 18 peer reviewed journal articles. The CLTS papers and reports are accessible through the CLTS webpage, the Scandinavian Working ... -
CHANGES IN THE EXPORT TRADE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE US
(Master thesis, 2023)This study investigates the changes in the trade relationship between Vietnam and the US, with a focus on GDP, tariffs and distance, the impact of the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement, and the effects of diplomatic ... -
Changing Patterns of Land Access, Inheritance and Emerging Female Village Headpersons in a Patriarchal Society among the Tumbuka in Northern Malawi
(CLTS Report;1/24, Report, 2024-06)The Tumbuka are normally described as patrilineal where inheritance of property including land, cattle and village headmanship is from father to son. There is evidence that initially the Tumbuka were matrilineal. In this ... -
Charity donor attitudes and preference : an analysis of a questionnaire survey in Norway
(Master thesis, 2014-02-13)Since private donations take a large proportion in charitable giving, the meaning of study individual donors’ attitudes and preferences become important. There were some previous researches provided the evidence that donor’s ... -
Civil War Impacts on Youth Business Groups in Tigray: A Pre-Analysis Plan and Documentation for Ethical Approval by Institutional Review Board at NMBU
(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 ... -
Climate change and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa : four approaches to modeling rural households
(PhD Thesis;2015:7, Doctoral thesis, 2018-02-28)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to increased knowledge of potential impacts of climate change on the welfare of households in developing countries. It focuses on impacts of changing temperature and precipitation ... -
Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions
(PhD Thesis;2019:47, Doctoral thesis, 2019)The thesis consists of an introduction and four research papers assessing impacts and responses to climate change. Particularly, there are two key reasons that motivates the thesis. First, climate economic models are often ... -
Climate-smart agriculture in Malawi : uptake and opportunities in the face of climate change
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)Is agriculture becoming climate-smart? Can recurrent weather events such as droughts explain increased use and adoption of agricultural technologies that are perceived climate-smart? I have merged a four-wave household ... -
The CO2 compensation scheme in Norway : an analysis of the incentives and potential environmental effects of the 10 GWh threshold
(Master thesis, 2022)The EU Emission Trading System’s goal is to put a price on carbon to internalize the external costs of emissions. In Europe, non-renewable resources still constitute a large share of the inputs in electricity production. ... -
Coastal commons and codified commodities : exploring the role of intellectual property rights on genetic resources in Norwegian marine biotechnological innovation systems
(Master thesis, 2014-08-14)Exploitation of the extensive Norwegian marine resources has entered the era of modern biotechnology- the third strategic technology in the post-war period-with the potential to transform our future, following nuclear- and ...