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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 ... -
Understanding Norwegian commons
(CLTS Working paper;10/18, Working paper, 2018)The paper reviews the development of the legal status of Norwegian commons from the first known legislation on commons. The development can be divided into 5 periods. The first period lasted until about 1300. In this ... -
Unlock the lock-in! Balance of rights in relation to betterment and compensation in Poland
(CLTS Working paper;2016:2, Working paper, 2016)Many Polish cities are faced with a dilemma: to enact their local land-use plans and be exposed to the immediate financial consequences of their adoption, or to protect their budgets against these costs and give up control ... -
Urban proximity, demand for land and land prices in Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;1/19, Working paper, 2019)We assess the spatial and intertemporal change patterns of farmland prices using per hectare minimum willingness to accept (WTA) sales and rental prices in Malawi. We use three rounds of nationally representative household ... -
Variation in output shares and endogenous matching in land rental contracts
(CLTS Working paper;2018:2, Working paper, 2018)We investigate the extent of variation in output sharing in land rental contracts and alternative hypotheses to explain this variation. Close to half of the rental contracts in our study in northern Ethiopia have output ... -
Welfare Effects of Market Friendly Land Reforms in Uganda
(CLTS Working Paper;2011:02, Working paper, 2011)This article estimates the poverty reducing impact of the recent land reforms and land transfers in the different land tenure systems of Uganda. Using balanced panel data for 309 households in 2001, 2003, and 2005, models ...