Publications

Published Articles

Using satellite imagery to assess impacts of soil and water conservation measures: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Tana-Beles watershed, Ecological Economics 169, 2020. (with Klaus Deininger and Daniel Monchuk)

Personality traits, technology adoption, and technical efficiency: Evidence from smallholder rice farmers in Ghana, Journal of Development Studies 56:7, 1330-1348, 2019. (with Klaus Deininger and Derick Bowen)

Using Satellite Imagery to Create Tax Maps and Enhance Local Revenue Collection, Applied Economics 52 (4), 415-429, 2019. (with Klaus Deininger and Michael Wild)

Sustaining land registration benefits by addressing the challenges of reversion to informality in Rwanda , Land Use Policy, 2019. (with Klaus Deininger, Godfrey Mahofa, Rhona Nyakulama)

Costs and benefits of land fragmentation: Evidence from Rwanda, World Bank Economic Review, 33(3): 750-771, 2019. (with K. Deininger and L. Ronchi)

Does large farm establishment create benefits for neighboring smallholders? Evidence from Ethiopia, Land Economics, 95 (1): 71–90 . (with Klaus Deininger, Anthony Harris)

New ways to assess and enhance land registry sustainability: Evidence from Rwanda, World Development, 99: 337-394, 2017. (with K. Deininger and M. Duponchel)

Using national statistics to increase transparency of large land acquisition: evidence from Ethiopia, World Development, 97: 62-74, 2017. (with K. Deininger and A. Harris)

Investigating the gender gap in agricultural productivity: Evidence from Uganda, World Development, 87: 152-170, 2016. (with D. Bowen, K. Deininger and M. Duponchel)

Small price incentives increase women's access to land titles in Tanzania, Journal of Development Economics, 123: 107-122, 2016. (with M. Collin, S. Dercon, K. Deininger, J. Sandfur and A. Zeitlin)

Is There a Farm Size–Productivity Relationship in African Agriculture? Evidence from Rwanda. Land Economics, 91(2): 317-343, 2015. (with Klaus Deininger)

Causes and Implications of Credit Rationing in Rural Ethiopia: The Importance of Zonal Variation. Journal of African Economies, 2014, forthcoming. (with Klaus Deininger)

Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa: pilot evidence from Rwanda. Journal of Development Economics, 110: 262-275, 2014. (with Klaus Deininger and Markus Goldstein)

Credit Constraints and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from rural Rwanda. Journal of Development Studies, 50(5): 649-665, 2014. (with Klaus Deininger and Marguerite Duponchel)

Productivity effects of land rental market operation in Ethiopia: Evidence from matched landlord-tenant sample. Applied Economics, 45(25): 3531-3551, 2013. (with Klaus Deininger)

Property Rights in a Very Poor Country: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Ethiopia. Agricultural Economics, 42(1): 75-86, 2011. (with Stefan Dercon and Madhur Guatum)

Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Markets: Evidence from Ethiopia. Land Economics, 87(2): 312-334, 2011. (with Klaus Deininger and Tekie Alemu)

Rural land certification in Ethiopia: Process, initial impact, and implications for other African countries. Word Development, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 1786-1812, 2008. (with Klaus Deininger, Stein Holden, and Jaap Zevenbergen).

Do overlapping land rights reduce agricultural investment? Evidence from Uganda. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 869-882, November 2008. (with Klaus Deininger).

Legal knowledge and economic development: the case of land rights in Uganda. Land Economics ,vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 593-619, November 2008. (with Klaus Deininger and Takashi Yamano).

Assessing the functioning of land rental markets in Ethiopia. Economic Development and Cultural change, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 67-100, October 2008. (with Klaus Deininger and Tekie Alemu).

Where have all the Soldiers Gone: Demobilisation and Reintegration in Ethiopia. World Development, Vol. 26, No. 9, pp 1661-1675, 1998 (with Stefan Dercon).

Financing Micro and Small Scale Enterprises: An Empirical Survey in Urban Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Economics, Vol. VI, No. 1, April 1997 (with Fasika Damte).

Book Chapters

Certification Foncière en Éthiopie: Processus et Impact Initial, in Jean-Philippe Colin, Pierre-yves Le Meur & Éric Léonard (ed.), Les Politiques d’Enregistrement des Droits Fonciers: Du Cadre Légal aux Pratiques Locales, Karthala, Paris, 2009. (with Klaus Deininger, Stein Holden, Jaap Zevenbergen)

Land Rental Markets: Transaction Costs and Tenure Insecurity in Rural Ethiopia, in Holden, S.T., Otsuka, K. and Place, F.M. (ed.), The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa: Impacts on Poverty, Equity, and Efficiency, 2009, Resource for the Future, Washington, DC, USA

Demobilization, Land and Household Livelihoods in Ethiopia, in Addison, T. (ed.), From Conflict to Recovery in Africa, 2003, WIDER Studies in Development Economics Series, Oxford University Press (with Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan).

From the Gun to the Plough: The Macro- and Micro-Level Impact of Demobilization in Ethiopia, in Kingma, K. (ed.), Demobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000, International Political Economy Series, Macmillan Press (with Stefan Dercon).