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    Impacts of Fairtrade on Small-Scale Cotton Producers - A field study in rural India.
    (2017-09-20) Holm, Felicia; Lindgren, Sara; University of Gothenburg/Department of Economics; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik
    ABSTRACT The number of Fairtrade labeled products in the stores continues to increase and more and more consumers choose Fairtrade as an alternative to conventional products. Fairtrade seeks to improve the livelihoods of small-scale producers and reduce poverty by implementing several standards for economic, social and environmental development. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the economic impacts of Fairtrade as well as the effects of Fairtrade on farmers’ standard of living. 101 farmers from the producer organization Chetna Organic in India were interviewed using a questionnaire. The impacts of Fairtrade are estimated through regression analysis, where positive statistically significant effects of Fairtrade on land productivity, credit use and perceived influence in cooperative are shown, while Fairtrade negatively affects food shortage. The farmers claimed to be satisfied with Fairtrade in spite of their limited knowledge of it, which makes it difficult to determine if Fairtrade is the actual cause of their satisfaction.
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    Income Inequality and Crime: Evidence from Sweden
    (2019-07-02) Lindgren, Sara; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
    In this thesis, I examine the relationship between income inequality and different crime rates in Sweden using a panel of Swedish municipality-level data between year 2004 and 2016. Income inequality is mainly measured by two different ratios between the share of people in different fixed income brackets. To account for a possible reverse causality between income inequality and crime rates, I calculate predicted income inequality measures based on the national income growth rate, to use as instrument for the actual income inequality measures. According to my findings there is a robust relationship between income inequality and violent crimes, and a fairly robust relationship between income inequality and property crimes where an increase in income inequality is associated with an increase in criminal activity.