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Gender Digital Divide and Youth Business Group Leadership.
(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 ... -
Gender dimensions of land tenure reforms in Ethiopia 1995-2020
(CLTS Working paper;06/20, Working paper, 2020)This chapter investigates how land tenure reforms in Ethiopia have influenced the position of women in terms of land tenure security, access to land, decision-power over land within households, as well as the gendered ... -
Generosity and social distance in dictator game field experiments with and without a face
(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
(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 ... -
Grunnvassforvaltning: om Elinor Ostrom si tilnærming til forvaltning av grunnvatn
(CLTS Working paper;8/18, Working paper, 2018)The paper discusses the challenges present in the management of groundwater. The theoretical approach of Elinor Ostrom is presented and her study of the management of groundwater in Southern California in the 1960ies is ... -
High discount rates : an artifact caused by poorly framed experiments or a result of people being poor and vulnerable?
(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 ... -
Household welfare effects of low-cost land certification in Ethiopia
(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 are social preferences of youth related to their motivation to invest in environmental conservation (local public goods)?
(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 can “tragedies of the commons” be resolved? Social dilemmas and legislation
(CLTS Working paper;01/23, Working paper, 2023-01)Humanity’s problem with climate change has been likened to a “tragedy of the commons”. If the atmosphere is seen as an open access dump for gasses like CO2 or methane, Garret Hardin’s conclusion from 1968: “Freedom in a ... -
How do social preferences and norms of reciprocity affect generalized and particularized trust?
(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 does Ethiopia’s productive safety net program affect livestock accumulation and children’s education?
(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 ... -
How Large is the Endowment Effect in the Risky Investment Game?
(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 related are risk preferences and time preferences?
(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
(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, ... -
Impact of land certification on tree growing on private plots of rural households : evidence from Ethiopia
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Input subsidies and demand for improved maize : relative prices and household heterogeneity matter!
(CLTS Working paper;2013:6, Working paper, 2013)This study uses simple non-separable farm household models calibrated to household, market, farming and policy context conditions in Central and Southern Malawi. The models are used to simulate how household characteristics, ... -
Input subsidies and improved maize varieties in Malawi : what can we learn from the impacts in a drought year?
(CLTS Working paper;2013:7, Working paper, 2013)After six years with a large scale Farm Input Subsidy Program that enhanced national and household food security high costs resulted in a cut-back of the program in 2011/12 at the same time as the country was hit by a ... -
Intertemporal Choice Lists and Maximal Likelihood Estimation of Discount Rates
(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. ... -
Is diminishing impatience in time-dated risky prospects explained by probability weighting?
(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 ... -
Is Ethiopia’s productive safety net program enhancing dependency?
(CLTS Working paper;2017:5, Working paper, 2017)Although development intervention programs can have far-reaching impacts beyond their stated objective, there have been few careful studies of unintended outcomes of such programs. This study assesses the impact of Ethiopia’s ...