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I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730-1860
(2018-05-24)The aim of this thesis is to analyze the power relations of labour and gender in the servant institution during the agrarian revolution in Sweden. The positions of servant, master and mistress are analyzed theoretically ... -
Development constrained – Essays on land as a factor in nineteenth-century industrialization and trade
(2018-05-18)This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four research essays and one essay that describes the collected dataset. The first essay examines how the balance of land embodied in British trade developed during ... -
Cost of Power Outages for Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference Study
(2018-05)Having a reliable supply of electricity is essential for the operation of any firm. In most developing countries, however, electricity supply is highly unreliable. In this study, we estimate the cost of power outages for ... -
Measuring Trust in Institutions
(2018-05)In empirical studies, survey questions are typically used to measure trust; trust games are also used to measure interpersonal trust. In this paper, we measure trust in different institutions by using both trust games and ... -
Industry Dynamics and Relatedness of Knowledge – Knowledge Transfer Through Labor Mobility and Entrepreneurship in the West Swedish Textile Industry
(2018-05-02)This PhD thesis investigates how industry dynamics are influenced by knowledge transferred through labor mobility and entrepreneurship by focusing on the role of relatedness of the knowledge. The empirical setting is the ... -
Multiple Misbehaving: Loss Averse and Inattentive to Monetary Incentives
(2018-04)We study what determines taxpayers’ deduction behavior when filing tax returns. Preliminary deficits might be viewed as losses assuming zero preliminary balance as reference point. Swedish taxpayers may escape these losses ... -
Robotization - Then and Now
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2018-04-20)Karel Čapek, the Czech author, coined the term “robot” (from “robota”, labor in Slavic languages; “robotnik” means “worker”) in 1920. In his play, R.U.R. - Rossum Universal Robots, artificial humans made of synthetic organic ... -
Instrumental variables based on twin births are by definition not valid
(2018-04)Instrumental variables based on twin births are a well-known and widespread method to find exogenous variation in the number of children when studying the effect on siblings or parents. This paper argues that there are ... -
Företagsledares arbete och tillväxt
(2018-03-27)The overall aim of this study is to contribute to knowledge about the relationship between what entrepreneurs do and firm growth. This aim have been translated into three research questions: (1) What characterizes the work ... -
Do Markets Trump Politics? Evidence from Fossil Market Reactions to the Paris Agreement and the U.S. Election
(2018-03)The Paris Agreement was acclaimed as a milestone for climate negotiations. It has also been criticized – as too soft by environmentalists and too constraining by the current U.S. administration, which has decided to leave. ... -
Confidence Set for Group Membership
(2018-03)We develop new procedures to quantify the statistical uncertainty from sorting units in panel data into groups using data-driven clustering algorithms. In our setting, each unit belongs to one of a finite number of latent ... -
Value of commuting time saving in Beijing: a stated preference study
(2018-03)We estimate the value of travel time savings with a discrete choice model using data from choice experiments on both car drivers and public transport users in Beijing. We find that, compared with public transport users, ... -
Mindfulness and Stress - a Randomised Experiment
(2018-03)We conduct a randomised controlled trial of an online course in mindfulness. Previous research has found evidence that mindfulness reduces stress; however, few studies have been carried out on non-clinical populations that ... -
Decision-making within the Household: The Role of Autonomy and Differences in Preferences
(2018-03)We use a field experiment to identify how differences in preferences and autonomy in decision-making result in sub-optimal adoption of technologies that can maximize the welfare of all members of the household. We create ... -
Essays on behavioral economics and the effects of the colonial rule on Java
(2018-03-01)This thesis consists of four chapters. While the first chapter is in the field of development economics, chapter two, three and four are in the field of behavioral economics using laboratory experiments. The first chapter ... -
Passive Learning and Incentivized Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial in India
(2018-03)In order to understand the extent of the information barrier to adoption of a household technology, we designed a randomized controlled trial on willingness to pay (WTP) for solar lanterns in India. We gave high quality ... -
Roman Roads to Prosperity: Persistence and Non-Persistence of Public Goods Provision
(2018-02)How persistent is public goods provision in a comparative perspective? We explore the link between infrastructure investments made during antiquity and the presence of infrastructure today, as well as the link between early ... -
Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents?
(2018-02)We exploit admission lotteries to estimate the payoffs to the dentistry study in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 ... -
The impact of the announcement of temporary building sites for refugees on house prices in Gothenburg
(2018-02)We evaluate the price development of apartments in neighborhoods surrounding temporary housing for refugees using the unpredicted announcement of three building sites, targeting refugees, in Gothenburg. More in particular, ... -
Primary healthcare interventions and social ties in Kenya
(2018-02-20)