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Learning from man or machine: Spatial aggregation and house price prediction
(CLTS Working paper;2018:4, Working paper, 2018)House prices vary with location. At the same time the border between two neighboring housing markets tends to be fuzzy. When we seek to explain or predict house prices we need to correct for spatial price variation. A ... -
Learning the hard way? : adapting to climate risk in Tanzania
(CLTS Working paper;2014:4, Working paper, 2014)We use recent panel data on Tanzanian farm households to investigate how previous exposure to weather shocks affects the impact of a current shock. Specifically, we investigate the impact of droughts on agricultural outcomes ... -
Lineage and land reforms in Malawi: do matrilinear and patrilinear landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi?
(CLTS Working paper;2013:9, Working paper, 2013)This paper is about land tenure relations among the matrilineal and patrilineal cultures in Malawi. Data from the National Agricultural and Livestock Census are used to characterize marriage systems and settlement and ... -
Links between tenure security and food security : evidence from Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2013:2, Working paper, 2013)The study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the period 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security ... -
Links between tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies : causal linkages and policy implications
(CLTS Working paper;2016:7, Working paper, 2016)Population growth leads to growing land scarcity and landlessness in poor agrarian economies. Many of these also face severe climate risks that may increase in the future. Tenure security is important for food security in ... -
Livestock and land share contracts in a Hindu Society
(CLTS Working paper;2011:7, Working paper, 2011)This paper examines factors related to the existence of a livestock rental market in western Nepal and assesses whether this is associated with caste differentiation and land rental market participation. This study brings ... -
Local ideas about rights of common in the context of a historical transformation from commons to private property
(CLTS Working paper;2013:13, Working paper, 2013)More than 200 years after the King sold one of the “King’s commons” (Follafoss, located in the current Verran municipality) to urban timber merchants, local people in some ways still behave as if the area is a kind of ... -
Magnitude Effects and Utility Curvature in Inter-temporal Choice
(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 ... -
Measurement Error and Farm Size: Do Nationally Representative Surveys Provide Reliable Estimates?
(CLTS Working paper;07/23, Working paper, 2023-12)We assess the reliability of measured farm sizes (ownership holdings) in the Living Standard Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) in Ethiopia and Malawi based on three survey rounds (2012, 2014, ... -
Mental Zooming as Variable Asset Integration in Inter-temporal Choice
(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 ... -
Minnelige avtaler ved grunnerverv
(CLTS Working paper;2017:6, Working paper, 2017)Statens vegvesens grunnerverv ender i større grad enn før med minnelig avtale enn skjønn. Etter 2000 har ca. 95 % av alle deres grunnerverv endt med minnelig avtale. Med bakgrunn i dette ønsker vi å undersøke hvorfor ... -
New commons established by pooling, facilitated by the Land Consolidation Court : Norwegian experiences and examples
(CLTS Working paper;2016:3, Working paper, 2016)New commons might come into being by pooling of resources. Such pooling often needs some sort of professional external assistance, as well as appropriate institutional framework. In Norway the Land Consolidation Courts - ... -
Numeracy skills learning of children in Africa: - Are disabled children lagging behind?
(CLTS Working paper;10/22, Working paper, 2022-11)Significant progress has been achieved in universal basic education in African countries since the late 1990s. This study provides empirical evidence on the within- and across-country variation in numeracy skills performance ... -
Numeracy Skills, Decision Errors, and Risk Preference Estimation
(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 ... -
Of urban commons
(CLTS Working paper;2016:4, Working paper, 2016)Last summer visitors to the Oslo opera house were met with the following announcement: “Here comes the “Opera Commons” explaining: “Operaallmenningen”, the Opera Commons, “will be a multi-functional meeting place for ... -
Om tillit i Malawi: Atferd i tillitsspill i 18 Malaviske landsbyer i 2007
(CLTS Working paper;01/22, Working paper, 2022)This paper originates from a series of “trust games” performed in Malawi during the summer of 2007. The results from the games are interpreted as pure stylized cases of a social dilemma. Some dilemmas, such as the prisoner’s ... -
Policies for improved food security : the roles of land tenure policies and land markets
(CLTS Working paper;2017:9, Working paper, 2017)This chapter provides an overview of what we know about farm size distributions, the emerging land markets, the role of tenure systems, tenure reforms and land policies in shaping the distribution of increasingly scarce ... -
The Predictive Power of Luck: Luck and Risk-Taking in a Repeated Risky Investment Game
(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 ... -
Price and Hedonic Heterogeneity Measures in Local Housing Markets
(CLTS Working paper;02/23, Working paper, 2023-01)In this paper, we develop a local housing stock heterogeneity measure. This measure may be used to monitor housing stock heterogeneity over time and in combination with other measures of policy interest. We illustrate the ... -
Probability weighting and input use intensity in a state-contingent framework
(CLTS Working paper;2017:8, Working paper, 2017)Climate risk represents an increasing threat to poor and vulnerable farmers in drought-prone areas of Africa. This study assesses the fertilizer adoption responses of food insecure farmers in Malawi, where Drought Tolerant ...