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Essays on the Political Economy of Land Use Change
(2005)
This thesis consists of three articles. The two first ones construct theoretical models for land use change between agriculture and forestry in the presence of lobbies representing both sectors. The third article tests ...
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 ...
Essays on Globalization and Occupational Wages
(2008-02-21)
This thesis evaluates empirically how globalization has affected occupational wages in both developing and developed countries. Three aspects of globalization – openness to trade, openness to capital and offshore-outsourcing ...