Blar i Department of Economics på forfatter "Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal"
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Business Training in Tanzania: From Research-driven Experiment to Local Implementation
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Juniwaty, Kartika Sari; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Field experiments documenting positive treatment effects have a strong policy message: scale up! However, such experiments are typically implemented under close supervision of the research group in charge of the study. In ... -
Competitive in the lab, successful in the field?
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Pires, Armando; Tungodden, Bertil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)A number of lab experiments in recent years have analyzed people’s willingness to com-pete. But to what extent is competitive behavior in the lab associated with field choicesand outcomes? We address this question in a ... -
Entrepreneurship in Development: Four Essays on Microfinance and Business Training
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal (Doctoral thesis, 2011)Which is the most binding constraint to microenterprise development, human capital or financial capital? To answer this question, we present the first field experiment that jointly investigates these two constraints for ... -
Ethnically Biased? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Galle, Simon; Miguel, Edward; Posner, Daniel; Tungodden, Bertil; Zhang, Kelly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
How Strong are Ethnic Preferences?
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Galle, Simon; Miguel, Edward; Posner, Daniel; Tungodden, Bertil; Zhang, Kelly (SAM;26/2015, Working paper, 2015-11-13)Ethnic divisions have been shown to adversely affect economic performance and political stability, especially in Africa, but the underlying reasons remain contested, with multiple mechanisms potentially playing a role. We ... -
Human and financial capital for microenterprise development : evidence from a field and lab experiment
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2011-01) -
On the Doorstep of Adulthood: Empowering Economic and Fertility Choices of Young Women
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Makene, Fortunata; Sekei, Linda Helgesson; Somville, Vincent; Tungodden, Bertil (SAM DP;15/2022, Working paper, 2022-10)We report from a large-scale randomized controlled trial of women empowerment in Tanzania investigating how two different empowerment strategies, economic empowerment and reproductive health empowerment, shape the economic ... -
Reducing Early Pregnancy in Low-Income Countries : a literature review and new evidence
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal; Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Maalim, Amina Mohamed; Somville, Vincent; Tungodden, Bertil (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)