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    • User evaluation of the first prototype of the interactive web tool EcoRunner 

      Olsson, Lars E; Shanahan, Helena; Wåhlander, Hélène (2009)
      EcoRunner is an interactive web tool that has been designed to be the “best possible” modelling tool for portraying direct and indirect environmental effects of household metabolism when it comes to energy, carbon and ...

    • E-bio och mobilkamera. Elefanter och myror i digital visuell kultur. 

      Wagner, Karin; Mörck, Magnus (2009)
      E-bion och mobilkameran är exempel på nya former för bildskapande och visning av visuellt material – samtidigt som de utgör fortsättningar och omvandlingar av invanda analoga apparater. De utgör parallella fenomen, noder ...

    • Bilens roll för människors subjektiva välbefinnande 

      Jakobsson Bergstad, Cecilia; Gamble, Amelie; Hagman, Olle; Olsson, Lars E.; Polk, Merritt; Gärling, Tommy (Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2009)
      Huvudsyftet med projektet var att öka kunskapen om bilens roll för olika hushålls och individers subjektiva välbefinnande. Subjektivt välbefinnande som kommer från engelskans subjective well-being, förkortat SWB i rapporten, ...

    • Konsumentrörligheten på de finansiella marknaderna. En uppföljning åtta år senare 

      Mankila, Merja; Gamble, Amelie (Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2009)
      Föreliggande studie innebär en uppföljning av Konkurrensverket och Konsumentverkets rapport om konsumentrörligheten på de finansiella marknaderna från 2001. Konkurrensen inom den finansiella sektorn har varit föremål ...

    • Barn som medforskare av matlandskap. Del 1: Medforskning 

      Brembeck, Helene; Johansson, Barbro; Bergström, Kerstin; Jonsson, Lena; Ossiansson, Eva; Shanahan, Helena; Hillén, Sandra (Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2010)
      Barn som medforskare av matlandskap, BAMM, är ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt med deltagare från Etnologi, Företagsekonomi och Mat hälsa och miljö vid Göteborgs universitet samt Avdelningen för Design på Chalmers. Syftet ...

    • Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses 

      Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; Sutter, Matthias (2010-08)
      Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on ...

    • Den kvinnliga blicken möter "Undressmann": Manlig erotik i svensk feministisk kalender 

      Petersson McIntyre, Magdalena; Mörck, Magnus (2010)
      Den här rapporten bygger på ett forskningsprojekt som heter ”Genus, design och organisation” och som löpte mellan 2006 och 20091. Utgångspunkten för projektet var att undersöka produkter, både sådana som redan fanns på ...

    • Wage Effects of Labor Migration with International Capital Mobility 

      Ruist, Joakim; Bigsten, Arne (2010-08)
      Wage effects of immigration are investigated in a setting with international capital mobility, which eliminates two-thirds of the native wage-effects of immigration. Without international capital mobility, overall gains ...

    • Community based health insurance schemes in Africa: The case of Rwanda 

      Shimeles, Abebe (2010-08)
      Community-based health insurance schemes (Mutuelles) in Rwanda are one of the largest experiments in community based risk-sharing mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa for health related problems. This study examines the impact ...

    • Paying the Price of Sweetening Your Donation - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment 

      Alpízar, Francisco; Martinsson, Peter (2010-07)
      Using a natural field experiment in a recreational site, a public good almost fully dependent on voluntary donations, we explored the crowding-out effect of gift rewards. First, we investigated whether receiving a map in ...

    • Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control 

      Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, Conny (2010-07)
      When facing the opportunity to allocate resources between oneself and others, individuals may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and preferences to act pro-socially. We explore the domain of ...

    • Political participation in Africa: Participatory inequalities and the role of resources 

      Isaksson, Ann-Sofie (2010-08)
      The aim of this paper is to examine the role of individual resource endowments for explaining individual and group variation in African political participation. Drawing on new data for more than 27 000 respondents in 20 ...

    • Are Men Really More Overconfident than Women? - A Natural Field Experiment on Exam Behavior 

      Johansson Stenman, Olof; Nordblom, Katarina (2010-08)
      This paper reports from a simple natural field experiment based on an eco-nomics exam. Part of the exam consisted of 30 multiple choice questions, where the students obtained 1 point per correct answer while 1 point was ...

    • The Law and Economics of International Sex Slavery: Prostitution Laws and Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation 

      Jakobsson, Niklas; Kotsadam, Andreas (2010-06)
      International trafficking in humans for sexual exploitation is an economic activity driven by profit motives, and up to four million people are estimated to be exploited by human traffickers each year. Laws regarding ...

    • Do Laws Affect Attitudes? - An assessment of the Norwegian prostitution law using longitudinal data 

      Jakobsson, Niklas; Kotsadam, Andreas (2010-06)
      The question of whether laws affect attitudes has inspired scholars across many disciplines, but empirical knowledge is sparse. Using longitudinal survey data from Norway and Sweden, collected before and after the ...

    • Targeted Enforcement and Aggregate Emissions With Uniform Emission Taxes 

      Coria, Jessica; Villegas-Palacio, Clara (2010-06)
      In practice, targeted monitoring seems to be a strategy frequently used by regulators. In this paper, we study the effects of targeted monitoring strategies on the adoption of a new abatement technology and, consequently, ...

    • Are They Watching You and Does It Matter? - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment 

      Alpízar, Francisco; Martinsson, Peter (2010-06)
      In a natural field experiment, we tested whether being alone or in a group had an effect on prosocial behavior as expressed in donations to a recreational park. We also explored whether the presence of people exogenous to ...

    • Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment 

      Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; Martinsson, Peter; Nordblom, Katarina; Rützler, Daniela (2010-06)
      Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants ...

    • GPMS Proceedings 2009, Del 2 

      Adolfsson, Petra; Solli, Rolf (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2010)
      Detta proceedings innehåller bidrag som presenterades vid konferensen GPMS, Göteborg Public Management Seminar, i november 2009. GPMS genomfördes i anslutning till Kvalitetsmässan i Göteborg och syftet med GPMS är att skapa ...

    • GPMS Proceedings 2009, Del 1 

      Adolfsson, Petra; Solli, Rolf (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2010)
      Detta proceedings innehåller bidrag som presenterades vid konferensen GPMS, Göteborg Public Management Seminar, i november 2009. GPMS genomfördes i anslutning till Kvalitetsmässan i Göteborg och syftet med GPMS är att skapa ...