Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Redistribution through Charity and Optimal Taxation when People are Concerned with Social Status
(2016-01)This paper deals with tax policy responses to charitable giving based on a model of optimal redistributive income taxation. The major contribution is the simultaneous treatment of (i) warm-glow and stigma effects of ... -
Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption
(2016-01)Much evidence suggests that people are concerned with their relative consumption, i.e., their own consumption relative to that of others. Yet, conspicuous consumption and the corresponding social costs have so far been ... -
Parental Investments in Child Health – the importance of paternalistic altruism, child egoism and short-sightedness
(2015-12)Parent and child interaction is an important determinant of child health. Typically, parents are more forward-looking than their children and, hence, care about investments in human capital to a larger extent. In this paper ... -
Essays on Field Experiments and Impact Evaluation
(2015-12-09)Paper 1: Improving Welfare Through Climate-Friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification We use rich survey data to investigate the economic impact of a climate-friendly rice farming method known as ... -
Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic
(2015-12)This paper examines the influence of social norms on obesity. We develop a concept of social norm related to social distortion in weight perception developed through shared experiences in a common social environment with ... -
Education and HIV incidence among young women: causation or selection?
(2015-11)Several studies report that schooling protects against HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the effect of secondary school attendance on the probability of HIV incidence among young women aged 15-24, ... -
Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on On-Line Advice
(2015-11)Helping job seekers to identify suitable jobs is a key challenge for policy makers. We develop and evaluate experimentally a novel tool that provides tailored advice at low cost and thereby redesigns the process through ... -
Strategic Delegation and Non-cooperative International Permit Markets
(2015-11)We analyze a principal-agent relationship in the context of international climate policy in a two-country framework. First, the principals of both countries decide whether to link their domestic emission permit markets to ... -
Resource Windfalls and Local Government Behavior: Evidence from a Policy Reform in Indonesia
(2015-11)We analyze the impact of a natural experiment in Indonesia that allocated certain district governments with a windfall revenue from natural resource production. Our identification is based on a comparison between bordering ... -
Modelling Household Cooking Fuel Choice: a Panel Multinomial Logit Approach
(2015-10)We use three rounds of a rich panel data set to investigate the determinants of household cooking fuel choice and energy transition in urban Ethiopia. We observe that the expected energy transition did not occur following ... -
International Remittances and Private Inter-household Transfers: Exploring the Links
(2015-10)We investigate the effect of remittances from migrated family members on informal inter- household transfers - an issue that has received limited attention in the literature. Using rich panel data from urban Ethiopia, ... -
Improving Welfare through Climate-friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification
(2015-10)We use rich survey data to investigate the impact of a climate-friendly rice farming method known as the system of rice intensification (SRI) on the welfare of rain-dependent small-holder farmers in Tanzania. SRI reduces ... -
Architecture of the EU Emissions Trading System in Phase 3 and the Distribution of Allowance Asset Values
(2015-10)Recent changes to the EU Emissions Trading System introduce structural changes regarding the initial distribution of emissions allowances, which are worth tens of billions of euros. A key change is the expanding role for ... -
The Pioneers’ Arguments for Formulating Economic Problems Mathematically
(2015-10)The nineteenth century pioneers in formulating economic problems mathematically often felt that they needed to explain their reasons for using mathematics. We will look at the arguments of Cournot, Thünen, Gossen, Jevons, ... -
Grit Trumps Talent? An experimental approach
(2015-10)Perseverance to accomplish long-term goals, also know as grit, is a crucial determinant for success in life. In the present study we introduce an innovative laboratory design to elicit grit in an incentivized and controlled ... -
Economic Determinants and Consequences of Political Institutions
(2015-10-15)This thesis is comprised of four empirical essays on the economic determinants and consequences of political institutions. It opens with a broad perspective on the link between the state throughout history and the past ... -
Land Certification and Schooling in Rural Ethiopia
(2015-09)This paper investigates the impact of a rural land certification program on schooling in two zones of the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Using the variation in the timing of the arrival of the program at the local level, we ... -
Corporate Governance and the Design of Board of Directors
(2015-09-11)Paper 1: “The Effects of Board Independence on Busy Directors and Firm Value: Evidence from Regulatory Changes in Sweden.” I use an exogenous change to the rules of corporate governance for Swedish firms in 2005 to ... -
Strategic environmental regulation of multiple pollutants
(2015-09)We analyze the interplay between policies aimed to control global and local pollution such as greenhouse gases and particulate matter. The two types of pollution interact in the abatement cost function of the polluting ... -
Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence
(2015-09)The Dunning–Kruger effect states that the low skilled are overconfident while the high skilled are more accurate in assessing their skill. In apparent support of this effect, many studies have shown that low performers ...