• How does Ethiopia’s productive safety net program affect livestock accumulation and children’s education? 

      Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:8, Working paper, 2014)
      We use panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the welfare impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program. We assess whether the program raised livestock asset levels and children’s education among participant ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Tools, fertilizer or cash? : exchange asymmetries in productive assets 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Bezu, Sosina (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 ...