Browsing CLTS Working papers (HH) by Title
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A land tenure module for LSMS
(CLTS Working paper;2016:1, Working paper, 2016)This paper proposes to fill the important gap in reliable and nationally representative land tenure data by including a Land Tenure Module (LTM) to be linked to multi-purpose household surveys such as the Living Standard ... -
Activity choice in rural non-farm employment (RNFE) : survival versus accumulative strategy
(CLTS Working paper;2014:11, Working paper, 2014)This paper examines the nonfarm employment choice of individuals using panel data from Ethiopia that covers the period 1994-2004. Non-farm activities that require more resources in the form of skill or capital yield higher ... -
Adoption of agricultural technologies in the semi-arid northern Ethiopia: A Panel Data Analysis
(CLTS Working paper;03/20, Working paper, 2020)Agricultural technology change is required in developing countries to increase the robustness to climate-related variability, feed a growing population, and create opportunities for market-oriented production. This study ... -
Adoption of CA technologies among followers of lead farmers : how strong is the influence from lead farmers?
(CLTS Working paper;2017:7, Working paper, 2017)This study investigates how the Farmer-to-Farmer-Extension (F2FE) system with lead farmers and follower farmers influences adoption of Conservation Agriculture (CA) technologies in Malawi. Using data from 180 lead farmers ... -
Adoption of drought tolerant maize varieties under rainfall stress in Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;2017:4, Working paper, 2017)This paper examines adoption of drought tolerant (DT) maize varieties under rainfall stress in Malawi using a Mundlak-Chamberlain panel Probit model with a Control Function approach. DT maize varieties is a promising ... -
Adoption of soil fertility management technologies in Malawi : impact of drought exposure
(CLTS Working paper;2017:11, Working paper, 2017)Soil fertility management (SFM) technologies may potentially protect against climate risks, reduce nutrient depletion and enhance food security. In this paper, we study impact of drought exposure on adoption and adoption ... -
Agricultural household models for Malawi : household heterogeneity, market characteristics, agricultural productivity, input subsidies, and price shocks : a baseline report
(CLTS Working paper;2014:5, Working paper, 2014)This report documents agricultural household models developed for agricultural policy analyses related to the assessment of impacts of agricultural input subsidies and maize technology choices in Malawi. The models have ... -
Amazing maize in Malawi : input subsidies, factor productivity and land use intensification
(CLTS Working paper;2013:4, Working paper, 2013)The paper uses three years of household farm plot panel data (2006-2009), covering six districts in central and southern Malawi to assess factor productivity and farming system development under the input subsidy program. ... -
Are decision errors explaining hyperbolic discounting and non-linear probability weighting?
(CLTS Working paper;03/24, Working paper, 2024-07)We study risky inter-temporal choice in a large random student sample (n=721) and a large rural sample (n=835) in Malawi. All respondents were exposed to the same 20 Multiple Choice Lists with a rapid elicitation method ... -
Are land-poor youth accessing rented land? : evidence from northern Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;7/19, Working paper, 2019)Continued strong 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 ... -
Are wives less selfish than their husbands? Evidence from Hawk-Dove game field experiments
(CLTS Working paper;2014:3, Working paper, 2014)Lab-in-the-field Hawk-Dove game experiments were played by spouses in a rural sample of households in Southern Ethiopia where women/wives traditionally have a weak position. Randomized treatments included a 3x3 design with ... -
Beyond Ostrom: Randomized Experiment of the Impact of Individualized Tree Rights on Forest Management in Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;06/21, Working paper, 2021)In this study, we argue that while community forest management is effective in protecting forest resources as argued by Ostrom, it may fail to provide proper incentives to take care of such resources because of collective ... -
Can adoption of improved maize varieties help smallholder farmers adapt to drought? : evidence from Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;2015:1, Working paper, 2015)This study used a three-year panel dataset for 350 Malawian farm households to examine the potential for widespread adoption of drought tolerant (DT) maize varieties, a technology that holds considerable promise for ... -
Can area measurement error explain the inverse farm size productivity relationship?
(CLTS Working paper;2013:12, Working paper, 2013)The existence of an inverse relationship (IR) between farm size and productivity in tropical agriculture remains a debated issue with policy relevance. Poor agricultural statistical data, including data on farm sizes and ... -
Can climate shocks make vulnerable subjects more willing to take risks?
(CLTS Working paper;03/23, Working paper, 2023-01)While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed and indicates that risk preferences respond to shocks. This ... -
Can rainfall shocks enhance access to rented land? Evidence from Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;05/20, Working paper, 2020)This study investigates whether and to what extent rainfall shocks recurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, that have been associated with distress land rentals, enhance short-term and medium-term access to rented land by tenant ... -
Can the land rental market facilitate smallholder commercialization? : evidence from northern Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2017:10, Working paper, 2017)The paper utilizes household panel data to investigate whether the land rental market can facilitate improved access to land for land-poor tenant households over time and thereby facilitate expansion of their farming ... -
Can the risky investment game predict real world investments?
(CLTS Working paper;05/21, Working paper, 2022)The incentivized risky investment game has become a popular tool in lab-in-the-field experiments for its simplicity and ease of comprehension compared to some of the more complex Multiple Choice List approaches that have ... -
Caste discrimination, land reforms and land market performance in Nepal
(CLTS Working Paper;2011:01, Working paper, 2011)The caste system is an intricate part of the institutional structure as well as class formation, political instability and conflicts in Nepal. The most severely discriminated group in the caste system is the Dalits, the ... -
Caste, land and labour market imperfections, and land productivity in rural Nepal
(CLTS Working paper;2011:6, Working paper, 2011)This paper provides new evidence on the caste-related land productivity differential and its explanations in rural Nepal using household plot panel data. Low-caste households are found to have significantly higher land ...