School of Business, Economics and Law / Handelshögskolan: Recent submissions
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Consistent Negative Responses of Rice Yield in China to High Temperatures and Extreme Temperature Events
(2017-07)We analyzed a county-level data set of rice yield and daily weather outcomes in China to examine the effects of high temperatures and extreme temperature events on rice yield. We found that (i) rice yield responded negatively ... -
Productive Efficiency and Its Determinants in a Changing Climate: A Monotonic Translog Stochastic Frontier Analysis
(2017-06)The changing weather patterns and seasonal shifts are negatively impacting agricultural ecosystems and compromising the benefits from production of agricultural goods and services. Such impacts include reduced farm ... -
Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability and Its Implications for Household Nutrition in Kenya
(2017-06)Climate change and variability are affecting weather patterns and causing seasonal shifts with serious repercussions for households and communities in Kenya. The livelihoods of the majority of Kenyans are therefore ... -
Credit, Insurance, and Farmers’ Liability
(2017-03)To cope with losses from extreme hydro-meteorological events, governments typically implement disaster relief programs and offer debt relief to affected parties. Governments in developing countries have made extensive use ... -
The Tilling of Land in a Changing Climate:Panel Data Evidence from the Nile Basin of Ethiopia
(2017-03)Empirical studies point to reduced tillage as a means to increase yields and reverse land degradation. A relatively neglected avenue of research concerns why farmers increase tillage frequencies. Using household plot–level ... -
The Land Certification Program and Off-Farm Employment in Ethiopia
(2017-02)Strong property rights have long been touted as key to increased performance of the rural economy in developing countries. Indeed, in an overwhelmingly agrarian economy like Ethiopia, with state ownership of land, increased ... -
The Impact of Credit Constraints and Climatic Factors on Choice of Adaptation Strategies: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
(2017-08)Climate adaptation actions, like any other investment, require financial resources, which are likely to be in short supply in the rural sector in developing countries. This paper assesses the role of credit constraints in ... -
Determinants of Enterprises’ Use of Energy Efficient Technologies:Evidence from Urban Ethiopia
(2018-02)We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 8174 micro, small and medium enterprises from ten major urban areas in Ethiopia to study the determinants of the enterprises’ adoption of energy efficiency practices and technologies. ... -
Serial-correlation-robust power calculation for the analysis-of-covariance estimator
(2020-06)Ex-ante power calculation is an essential part of the toolkit of experimental economics. In panel experiments, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is more efficient than differencein- differences and is often preferred. The ... -
Skinny white bitches: Female sexual agency in contemporary advertising
(2020-06-05)ABSTRACT This is a story about female representations in contemporary advertising. Following up on Rosalind Gill’s (2003; 2007; 2008) critical discussions on the shift in contemporary advertising from the sexual object ... -
THE INDIVIDUAL WELFARE COSTS OF STAY-AT-HOME POLICIES
(2020-06)This paper reports the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate the private welfare costs of stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is conducted on a large and representative sample of the ... -
The Economics of Coercive Institutions, Conflict, and Development
(2020-05-26)This dissertation is a compilation of three papers that put together my research interests on the effects of institutions on development outcomes with inequality as the connecting thread. The first chapter concerns ... -
The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
(2020-05)We examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed over the past decade in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate ... -
Inequality Aversion, Externalities, and Pareto-Efficient Income taxation
(2020-05)Abstract This paper analyzes Pareto-efficient marginal income taxation taking into account externalities induced through individual inequality aversion, meaning that people have preferences for equality. In doing so, we ... -
Essays on Culture, Institutions, and Economic Development
(2020-05-18)Culture and institutions are important to understand individual behaviors and economic development. In this thesis, I study the origins of cultural divergence across societies, the emergence of private property rights, and ... -
The Common Good in Common Goods - The Decommodification of Fundamental Resources through Law
(2020-05-18)This dissertation is divided into three parts. Part I analyzes the Commons as a post-capitalist strategy accomplished through law by developing an alternative social theory of the market as a social institution. The social ... -
Empirical Essays on Education and Health Policy Evaluation
(2020-05-13)Chapter 1: Impact of School Peers from the Same Region-of-Origin on Endogamy and Work Segregation: Evidence from Sweden This study estimates how the quasi-random variation in the proportion of school peers from the same ... -
A Hybrid Operating Room in the Making - Coordinating the lntroduction and Use of New Technology
(2020-05-11)New technologies are often introduced hoping to achieve cost reductions, efficiency improvements, and product/service quality increases. Early researchers have often focused on these hopes and how existing organizational ... -
Att riva gränser genom att skapa nya – om samverkan i projektet ”Tillsammans för jobb och integration i Askimsviken”
(Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet, 2020)Arbetet med att stödja nyanländas integration på arbetsmarknaden och i samhället har fått ökad betydelse i efterdyningarna av den så kallade ”flyktingkrisen” i Europa och ett stadigt växande antal initiativ och projekt ... -
Food labels: how consumers value moral, environmental, and health aspects of meat consumption
(2020-04)Policy changes could improve health and environmental outcomes by addressing the many externalities and internalities related to food consumption. Using a stated preference approach, we investigate to what extent consumers ...