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    • Defragmenting resource management on the southeast arm of Lake Malawi : case of fisheries 

      Ngochera, Maxon; Donda, Steve; Hara, Mafaniso; Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;2017:12, Working paper, 2017)
      The Southeast Arm of Lake Malawi catchment has a wide range of natural resources that require prudent management for sustainability and maximisation of benefits. The current management practice is government sector based, ...

    • The Devil is in the details : risk preferences, choice list design, and measurement error 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;3/19, Working paper, 2019)
      We use a field experiment to estimate the risk preferences of 945 youth and young adult members of 116 rural business groups organized as primary cooperatives in a semi-arid risky environment in northern Ethiopia. Multiple ...

    • Disability types and children’s schooling in Africa 

      Zhang, Huafeng; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;04/22, Working paper, 2022)
      The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set up by the United Nations include an overarching principle of “leaving no one behind” and aim for, among other goals, equal access to education for children with disabilities. ...

    • Does Ethiopia's productive safety net program improve child nutrition? 

      Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; Shively, Gerald; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:1, Working paper, 2014)
      We study the link between Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and short-run nutrition outcomes among children age 5 years and younger. We use 2006 and 2010 survey data from Northern Ethiopia to estimate parameters ...

    • Does land registration and certification reduce land border conflicts? 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Deininger, Klaus; Ghebru, Hosaena (CLTS Working paper;2011:5, Working paper, 2011)
      This paper assesses factors related to local land border conflicts and how low cost land registration and certification has affected land conflicts during and after land registration and certification using data from ...

    • The economics of fertilizer subsidies 

      Holden, Stein (CLTS Working paper;9/18, Working paper, 2018)
      Fertilizer and other input subsidies have been a prominent component of agricultural policies in many Asian and African countries since the 1960s. Their economic and political rationale is scrutinized with emphasis on the ...

    • Economy-wide effects of input subsidies in Malawi : market imperfections and household heterogeneity 

      Skjeflo, Sofie Waage; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:7, Working paper, 2014)
      The potential benefits of providing subsidized inputs to farm-households in developing countries may reach well beyond the targeted households. More specifically, increased food productionand demand for rural labor may benefit ...

    • Eiendomsrettigheter og jordleie i Rissa gjennom 900 år 

      Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:9, Working paper, 2014)
      Denne artikkelen bygger på lokale bygdebøker fra Rissa kommune i Sør-Trøndelag. De gir en mer eller mindre detaljert bygdehistorie som går 900 år tilbake. Artikkelen fokuserer på eiendomsrettsstrukturen og jordleie innen ...

    • Enclosure Norwegian style : the withering away of an institution 

      Berge, Erling; Haugset, Anne Sigrid (CLTS Working paper;2015:2, Working paper, 2015)
      More than 200 years after the King sold one of the “King’s commons” of Follafoss (located inthe current Verran municipality) to urban timber merchants, local people in some ways still behave as if the area is a kind of ...

    • Endowment Effects and Loss Aversion in the Risky Investment Game 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;01/20, Working paper, 2020)
      The risky investment game of Gneezy and Potters (1997) has been a popular tool used to estimate risk tolerance and myopic loss aversion. We have assessed whether a simple one-shot version of this game that is attractive ...

    • Explaining anomalies in intertemporal choice : a mental zooming theory 

      Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:2, Working paper, 2014)
      I present a theory that can explain hyperbolic discounting and magnitude effects in intertemporal choice. This approach builds on theories of narrow framing and reference dependence and expands these theories in a novel ...

    • Farm size and gender distribution of land: Evidence from Ethiopian land registry data 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;02/20, Working paper, 2020)
      Land is an essential asset for the livelihood and welfare of rural households in agriculture-based rural economies. This study utilizes land registry data from the First and Second Stage Land Registration (FSLR and SSLR) ...

    • Fertilizer and sustainable intensification in Africa 

      Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2018:1, Working paper, 2018)
      The paper investigates the important role of fertilizer to enhance sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa based on a multi-disciplinary literature review. The review starts with a macro-perspective ...

    • Food for work and diet diversity in Ethiopia 

      Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; Shively, Gerald; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2017:14, Working paper, 2017)
      We use four waves of panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the link between Food for Work (FFW) participation and the diversity of food consumption and production. Food-based transfer programs have become a ...

    • Forhandling, forhandlingsplanlegging og jordskifte i urbane områder 

      Sky, Per Kåre (CLTS Working paper;04/20, Working paper, 2020)
      Negotiations are important in urban densification processes. In particular, integrative negotiations seem to be relevant. The conflicts between neighbors and developers can be challenging to solve. Land readjustment is ...

    • From rural to urban land consolidation– An analysis of recent changes in Norwegian land consolidation 

      Elvestad, Helén Elisabeth; Sky, Per Kåre (CLTS Working paper;01/21, Working paper, 2021)
      In most countries, land consolidation was first introduced in rural areas, with legislation suitable for urban areas being drafted at a later date. This is also true of Norway. The first evidence of urban competency in the ...

    • Gender assessment of youth business groups : female participation and characteristics 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;6/19, Working paper, 2019)
      This working paper is an output from the research project “Youth Business Groups for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Ethiopian Model” that is funded by Research Council of Norway under the NORGLOBAL2 research ...

    • Gender differences in investments and risk preferences 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;02/22, Working paper, 2022)
      We analyze individual investment behavior among 822 young men and women that are members of 111 formal business groups in northern Ethiopia.We collected baseline data and investment data one year later combined with ...

    • Gender differences in risk tolerance, trust and trustworthiness: Are they related? 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2018:3, Working paper, 2018)
      The paper assesses risk tolerance, trust and trustworthiness among male and female youth group members in recently formed primary cooperative businesses in Ethiopia. Male members are found to be more risk tolerant, trusting ...

    • Gender Digital Divide and Youth Business Group Leadership. 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (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 ...