School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Education, norms, and gender equality
(2017-06)Despite major developments in gender equality, differences between men and women’s economic and social behaviors remain. Several studies demonstrate the importance of gender norms in explaining a significant part of the ... -
Too slow a change? Deep habits, consumption shifts and transitory tax
(2017-06)This paper studies shifts in the consumption bundle when consumption is subject to habit formation, and consumers do not internalize this habit formation process. Habits are goodspecific, or ’deep’, and cause persistence ... -
Incentives and Forest Reform: Evidence from China
(2017-05-24)Chapter I: Forest Devolution Reform in China: A Trigger for Investment or Deforestation? I investigate whether and how the devolution of forestland to households in China triggered investment in forestland, and its effect ... -
Converging Human and Digital Bodies. Posthumanism, Property, Law.
(2017-05-22)This thesis elaborates a theory for understanding how advanced capitalism commoditizes knowledge to an intensified degree simultaneously as it undoes the divide between human and nonhuman beings. In the text, such theory ... -
Social Marketing through Events
(2017-05-19)In today’s society, events are used as a mens to achieve a variety of goals, including increased tourism and economic improvement. Events also offer opportunities for communication, both through the visitor experience ... -
Within-Family Inequalities in Human Capital Accumulation in India: Birth Order and Gender Effects
(2017-05)In this paper we investigate birth order and gender effects on the development of children’s human capital in India. We investigate both indicators of the child’s current stock of human capital and of investment into their ... -
Rättstillämpningens tystnad. En rättsvetenskaplig narratologisk studie om argumentation och rättsliga uttryck inom civilprocessen
(2017-05-11)The thesis aims to develop methodological concepts that contribute to the under-standing of, and critique of, legal argumentation in court proceedings. The concepts take their onset in narratological terminology and in a ... -
Essays on forest conservation policies, weather and school attendance
(2017-05-04)Sammanfattningar: Paper I Heterogena lokala spridningseffekter från skyddade områden i Costa Rica Spridningseffekter kan reducera eller förstärka nettopåverkan av policies kopplade till markanvändning. Relativt lite är ... -
Post-Harvest Losses, Intimate Partner Violence and Food Security in Tanzania
(2017-05-02)High levels of food losses occurring after harvesting offset the effort to increase food production. This situation increases the risk of food insecurity and low incomes among smallholder farmers. But, my project finds ... -
An introduction to using twin births as instrumental variables for sibship size
(2017-04)Some families who experience a twin birth get one more child than they had intended and planned for. This is the reason why twin births are used to create instrumental variables (IVs) for the number of children in a family. ... -
Bitter divisions: inequality, identity and cooperation
(2017-04-25)Overriding inequality Group identity, beliefs and cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas Heterogeneity reduces cooperation. Understanding why can help mitigate the problem. As salient interpersonal differences reduce ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Fisheries: Coordination and Cooperation
(2017-04-25)Kapitel 1: Samarbete under risk och sann osäkerhet (ambiguity). ... -
Gränsöverskridande insolvens – En studie av den internationella domsrätten för insolvensförfaranden inom EU
(2017-04-18)Questions regarding cross-border insolvency have become the subject of increasing interest in recent years. This is partly due to the ever ongoing globalization as well as the economic crisis in 2008. The thesis investigates ... -
Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa
(2017-04)Chinese firms operating in Africa are often accused of violating international labour standards and not adhering with national labour laws. Considering China’s tendency to maintain control over development projects throughout ... -
Elektrotekniska industrins ledande tråd. AB Dahréntråd och svensk lindningstrådsindustri 1945-1980
(2017-03-31)This dissertation is a study of Swedish manufacturers of insulated winding wire and the market forces surrounding the industry between 1945 and 1980. As part of the chain of subcontractors, the winding wire industry was ... -
Exploring Knowledge Intensity in Entrepreneurship: A Quantitative Study of Knowledge, Innovation and Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms
(2017-03-29)This Ph.D. dissertation investigates the statistical and theoretical relationships between different dimensions of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) in Europe and how knowledge intensity and performance in ... -
An empirical model of dyadic link formation in a network with unobserved heterogeneity
(2017-03)In this paper I study a fixed effects model of dyadic link formation for directed networks. I discuss inference on structural parameters as well as a test of model specification. In the model, an agent's linking decisions ... -
The Logics of Healthcare – In Quality Improvement Work
(2017-03-17)Quality improvement (QI) has become a cornerstone in contemporary healthcare organizations with the aim of enabling management that facilitates efficiency and effectiveness, while providing a consistent correlation between ... -
Cost Pass-Through in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2017-03)Cost pass-through to retail prices shows how changes in marginal costs are allocated between producers and consumers, and it is therefore closely related to market structure and competition. This paper uses Swedish data ... -
Outmigration and income assimilation during the first post-EU-enlargement migrants’ first decade in Sweden
(2017-03)This study follows a random sample of 20% of the earliest post-EU-enlargement immigrants during their first decade in Sweden, studying their patterns of outmigration and income assimilation. The results show that ...