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The Poor and Their Neighbors: Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2013-09-24)
This thesis comprises of seven self-contained papers. While the papers are quite distinct
in the questions they address and each is based on its own dataset, there are
some relations between them either in the topic ...
Land Certification and Schooling in Rural Ethiopia
(2015-09)
This paper investigates the impact of a rural land certification program on schooling in two zones of the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Using the variation in the timing of the arrival of the program at the local level, we ...
Essays on Shocks, Welfare, and Poverty Dynamics: Microeconometric Evidence from Ethiopia
(2011-04-20)
Five self-contained papers constitute this thesis.
Paper 1: Does fertilizer use respond to rainfall variability? Panel data evidence from urban Ethiopia
In this article, we use farmers’ actual experiences with changes ...
Essays on Development and Experimental Economics: Migration, Discrimination and Positional Concerns
(2013-11-22)
Paper 1: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in the Norwegian Housing Market: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity
We test for gender, class, and ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian rental housing market using fake application ...
Modelling Household Cooking Fuel Choice: a Panel Multinomial Logit Approach
(2015-10)
We use three rounds of a rich panel data set to investigate the determinants of household
cooking fuel choice and energy transition in urban Ethiopia. We observe that the expected
energy transition did not occur following ...