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    • Beyond Ostrom: Randomized Experiment of the Impact of Individualized Tree Rights on Forest Management in Ethiopia 

      Takahashi, Ryo; Otsuka, Keijiro; Tilahun, Mesfin; Birhane, Emiru; Holden, Stein T. (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 ...

    • Shocks and Stability of Risk Preferences 

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

    • How Large is the Endowment Effect in the Risky Investment Game? 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;04/21, Working paper, 2021)
      The risky investment game of Gneezy and Potters (1997) has been a popular tool used to estimate risk tolerance and myopic loss aversion. Holden and Tilahun (2021) tested and found that the simple one-shot version of this ...

    • How are social preferences of youth related to their motivation to invest in environmental conservation (local public goods)? 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;03/21, Working paper, 2021)
      We have used simple incentivized social preference experiments for a sample of 2427 resource-poor rural youth that have formed natural-resource based youth business groups in their home communities. The experiments were ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Gender dimensions of land tenure reforms in Ethiopia 1995-2020 

      Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;06/20, Working paper, 2020)
      This chapter investigates how land tenure reforms in Ethiopia have influenced the position of women in terms of land tenure security, access to land, decision-power over land within households, as well as the gendered ...

    • Adoption of agricultural technologies in the semi-arid northern Ethiopia: A Panel Data Analysis 

      Gebru, Menasbo; Holden, Stein T.; Alfnes, Frode (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 ...

    • Can rainfall shocks enhance access to rented land? Evidence from Malawi 

      Tione, Sarah E.; Holden, Stein T. (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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) ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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, ...

    • Understanding Norwegian commons 

      Berge, Erling (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 ...

    • How related are risk preferences and time preferences? 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;4/19, Working paper, 2019)
      Risk and time preferences are fundamentally important for financial decisions. We study such preferences for business group members based on field experiments in Ethiopia. The relationship between risk preferences and time ...

    • Are land-poor youth accessing rented land? : evidence from northern Ethiopia 

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

    • How do social preferences and norms of reciprocity affect generalized and particularized trust? 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;8/19, Working paper, 2019)
      We study how social preferences and norms of reciprocity are related to generalized and particularized trust among members of youth business groups in northern Ethiopia. Members of these groups are recruited among land-poor ...