Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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The Impact of Upper Secondary School Flexibility on Sorting and Educational Outcomes
(2019-05)This paper estimates the causal impact of an upper secondary curriculum reform in Sweden that increased students' course-taking flexibility in year 2000. In the most popular upper secondary program, it led to a significant ... -
To educate a woman and to educate a man: Gender-specific sexual behaviour and HIV responses to an education reform in Botswana
(2019-05)Education has been suggested as a ‘vaccine’ against HIV infection, but there is not much causal evidence behind this claim. Moreover, the few studies that exist on the impact of education on HIV infection and related ... -
Predictability in Equity Markets: Estimation and Inference
(2019-05-08)The thesis consists of three chapters dealing with predictability in equity markets. The first chapter analyses predictive regressions in a predictive system framework, where the predictor is an imperfect proxy for the ... -
Who is willing to stay sick for the collective? – Individual characteristics, experience, and trust
(2019-05)This paper deals with the collective action dilemma of antibiotic resistance. Despite the collective threat posed by antibiotic resistance, there are limited incentives for individuals to consider the contribution of their ... -
Essays on Environmental and Behavioral Economics
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Chinese aid and local ethnic identification
(2019-04)Recent empirical evidence suggests that Chinese development finance may be particularly prone to elite capture and patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, ... -
Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Paternalist Approaches
(2019-04)This paper deals with tax policy responses to charitable giving, defined in terms of voluntary contributions to a public good, to which the government also contributes through public revenue; the set of tax instruments ... -
Can the environment be an inferior good? A theory with context-dependent substitutability and needs
(2019-04)Theoretical models often assume the environment to be a normal good, irrespective of one’s income. However, a priori, nothing prohibits an environmental good from being normal for some individuals and inferior for others. ... -
Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
(2019-04)We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables ... -
Optimal Prosocial Nudging
(2019-04)While nudges are still mostly associated with affecting individual choices for their own long-run interest, i.e. dealing with internalities, they are increasingly used in order to reduce externalities, such as environmental ... -
Nudging as an Environmental Policy Instrument
(2019-04)We discuss the use of green nudges – nudges intended to reduce negative externalities – as an environmental policy instrument. A review of empirical studies reveals that green nudges can have a sizeable impact on behavior ... -
Foreign aid and structural transformation: Micro-level evidence from Uganda
(2019-03)History tells us that sustained economic growth, necessary to alleviate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, requires growth in the fundamentals, such as infrastructure and human capital, but also structural transformation, i.e., ... -
Kostnader av elavbrott för svenska elkunder
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A theoretical framework explaining the mechanisms of nudging
(2019-03)In this paper we develop a theoretical model to clarify the underlying mechanisms that drive individual decision making and responses to behavioral interventions, such as nudges. The contribution of the paper is three-fold: ... -
Personality and Positionality
(2019-03)This paper employs survey experiments to examine the relationship between personality characteristics and positional concerns across a wide range of “goods,” e.g., income and market value of a car, and “bads,” e.g., infant ... -
Sida and innovative finance: The case of loan guarantee schemes
(2019-02)Sida is exploiting loan guarantee schemes to leverage finance from the private sector in partner countries. This paper is a literature review of the rationale for and experiences of this type of schemes, focusing on Small ... -
The fiscal lifetime cost of receiving refugees
(2019-02)This study estimates the fiscal consequences of receiving refugees, over the refugees’ lifetime. It uses data from Sweden in 2015, and the calculations account for refugees’ age, years since immigration, and country of ... -
The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women
(University of Gothenburg, 2019-02)Many studies report on the association between 2D:4D, a putative marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, and economic preferences. However, most of these studies have limited sample sizes and test multiple hypotheses ... -
Scaring or scarring? Labour market effects of criminal victimisation
(University of Gothenburg, 2019-01)Little is known about the costs of crime to victims and their families. In this paper, we use unique and detailed register data on victimisations and labour market outcomes from the Netherlands to overcome data restrictions ... -
CDS index options in Markov chain models
(University of Gothenburg, 2019-01-07)We study CDS index options in a credit risk model where the defaults times have intensities which are driven by a finite-state Markov chain representing the underlying economy. In this setting we derive compact computationally ...