• Knowledge, beliefs, perceptions, and behavior related to the corona (COVID-19) pandemic among university students in Malawi 

      Holden, Stein T.; Katengeza, Samson; Tione, Sarah; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;07/22, Working paper, 2022-06)
      This study is based on a survey of 764 students at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Lilongwe, Malawi. It aims to provide evidence on the extent of exposure to the pandemic among ...
    • Land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia 

      Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2013:11, Working paper, 2013)
      Ethiopia. Access to agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant districts of Oromia Region and from the land scarce districts of Southern ...
    • Land consolidation cases relating to grazing arrangements 

      Sky, Per Kåre; Elvestad, Helén Elisabeth (CLTS Working paper;02/21, Working paper, 2021)
      Land consolidation courts deal with cases where the relationship between holders of grazing rights needs be regulated, but also where the rights holders are competing with other potential land uses, such as building holiday ...
    • Land distribution in Northern Ethiopia from 1998 to 2016 : gender-disaggregated, spatial and intertemporal variation 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2017:3, Working paper, 2017)
      This study utilizes land registry data from the First and Second Stage Land Registration Reforms that took place in 1998 and 2016 in sampled districts and communities in Tigray region of Ethiopia. Tigray was the first ...
    • Land rental as a complementary income source for land-poor youth 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;6/18, Working paper, 2018)
      Continued high population growth in already densely populated rural areas in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa makes it harder for youth to choose agriculture as their main source of income. We investigate whether near landless ...
    • Land tenure in Tigray : how large is the gender bias? 

      Dokken, Therese (CLTS Working paper;2013:5, Working paper, 2013)
      This study finds that female-headed households have 23% smaller owned landholdings and 54% smaller operational landholdings. Differences in characteristics such as age, labor, oxen and previous divorce explain less than ...
    • Land valuation and perceptions of land sales prohibition in Ethiopia 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Bezu, Sosina (CLTS Working paper;2014:12, Working paper, 2014)
      This study investigates attitudes towards legalizing land sales and Willingness to Accept (WTA) sales prices and compensation prices for land among smallholder households in four different areas in the Oromia and SNNP ...
    • Landbrukseiendommer og jordleie i Rissa kommune 

      Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2016:5, Working paper, 2016)
      Denne artikkelen beskriver eiendomsstrukturen og bruksstrukturen for landbrukseiendommer i Rissa kommune og hvordan disse har endret seg de siste tiår fram til 2013. Den bruker data fra Statens Kartverk og Statens ...
    • Learning cooperation from the commons 

      Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;2/19, Working paper, 2019)
      The paper discusses the link between commons as they might have been used in prehistoric Norway and the rules concerning the exploitation of the commons as found in the oldest known legislation for regions of Norway, ...
    • Learning from man or machine: Spatial aggregation and house price prediction 

      Sommervoll, Dag EInar; Sommervoll, Åvald (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 

      Skjeflo, Sofie Waage; Westberg, Nina Bruvik (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? 

      Berge, Erling; Kawbewa, Daimon; Munthali, Alister; Wiig, Henrik (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 

      Ghebru, Hosaena; Holden, Stein Terje (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 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Ghebru, Hosaena (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 

      Aryal, Jeetendra P.; Holden, Stein Terje (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 

      Berge, Erling; Haugset, Anne Sigrid (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 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin; Sommervoll, Dag Einar (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? 

      Holden, Stein T.; Makate, Clifton; Tione, Sarah (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 

      Holden, Stein T.; Sommervoll, Dag Einar; Tilahun, Mesfin (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 

      Leinebø, Bjørn Bendixen; Strømdal, Frank; Torsnes, André (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 ...