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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
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The role of land certification in reducing gender gaps in productivity in rural Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2012:1, Working paper, 2012)This paper analyses the impact of a low cost and restricted rights land certification program on the productivity of female-headed households. The analysis is based on plot level panel data from the East Gojjam and South ... -
The roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in the context of population growth and land use intensification in Africa
(CLTS Working paper;2013:15, Working paper, 2013)This article provides a review of the past and potential future roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as responses to population growth in the process of land use intensification and ... -
Tools, fertilizer or cash? : exchange asymmetries in productive assets
(CLTS Working paper;2014:13, Working paper, 2014)We used a field experiment to investigate exchange asymmetries in productive assets among poor rural respondents in Ethiopia. Farmers were randomly allocated two types of productive assets or cash, with a choice to keep ... -
Transaction costs and land rental market participation in Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;9/19, Working paper, 2019)We assess the extent of access and degree of participation by smallholder tenants in the land rental market in Malawi. Our study is based on three rounds of nationally representative Living Standards Measurement Surveys ... -
Unbundling land administrative reform : demand for second stage land certification in Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2013:3, Working paper, 2013)Ethiopia has implemented one of the largest, fastest and cheapest land registration and certification reforms in Africa. While there have been evidences of positive impacts of this land reform in terms of increased ...