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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 ... -
Religion, beliefs, trust, and COVID vaccination behavior among rural people in Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;04/23, Working paper, 2023-01)This study investigates the religious and other beliefs related to the corona/COVID-19 pandemic and how they are related to covid risk perceptions, trust in COVID vaccines, and how these are affected by the religious ... -
Religion, perceptions, and behavior during the corona/COVID- 19 pandemic among university students in Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;08/22, Working paper, 2022-06)This study investigates the covid risk perceptions, information updating behavior related to the pandemic, use of protective measures, especially facemasks, and the demand for vaccines among university students in Malawi. ... -
Reverse share-tenancy and marshallian inefficiency : bargaining power of landowners and the sharecroppers’ productivity
(CLTS Working paper;2012:2, Working paper, 2012)Making use of a unique tenant-landlord matched data from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, we are able to show how strategic response of tenants - to varying economic and tenure security status of the landlords - is important ... -
Rights of common and conservation of nature in Skjåk municipality
(CLTS Working paper;2013:10, Working paper, 2013)The goal of this article is to find out how national conservation rules and private ownership works in the management of a large outlying area. The study results are based on a survey among owners/users of Skjåk Bygd Commons ... -
Risk preferences, shocks and technology adoption : farmers’ responses to drought risk
(CLTS Working paper;2015:3, Working paper, 2015)Climate risk represents an increasing threat to poor and vulnerable farmers in drought-proneareas of Africa. This study assesses the maize and fertilizer adoption responses of food insecure farmers in Malawi, where Drought ... -
Risky choices of poor people : comparing risk preference elicitation approaches in field experiments
(CLTS Working paper;2014:10, Working paper, 2014)This paper studies the risk preferences of poor rural households in Malawi and compares the Holt and Laury (2002) (HL) multiple price list approach with hypothetical real-world framing and monetary incentive-compatible ... -
Shocks and Stability of Risk Preferences
(CLTS Working paper;05/21, Working paper, 2021)While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed that indicate that risk preferences respond to shocks. This ... -
Street based self-employment : a poverty trap or a stepping stone for migrant youth in Africa?
(CLTS Working Paper;2015:4, Working paper, 2015)A significant percentage of youth in urban Africa is employed in the informal sector. The informal sector is more accessible than the formal sector for people with low human and financial capital, such as youth migrants ... -
The adoption potential of conservation agriculture technologies in Malawi : a lead farmer promoter-adopter approach and assessment
(CLTS Working paper;2017:1, Working paper, 2017)This paper assesses the adoption potential of conservation agriculture (CA) technologies in Malawi, where CA appears highly appropriate. Estimation of CA adoption rates and their determinants is complicated by the relatively ... -
The importance of Ostrom's design principles : youth group performance in Northern Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2017:2, Working paper, 2017)Youth unemployment and migration are growing challenges that need more political attention in many countries, particularly countries with rapid population growth and economic transformation. Proactively mobilizing the youth ... -
The reconstruction of communal property : membership and rights in Limpopo's restitution process
(CLTS Working paper;2011:8, Working paper, 2011)