Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Nudging to reduce meat consumption: Immediate and persistent effects of an intervention at a university restaurant
(2017-11)Changing dietary habits to reduce the consumption of meat is considered to have great potential to mitigate food-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To test if nudging can increase the consumption of vegetarian food, ... -
Tax Morale and Policy Intervention
(2017-11)This paper deals with tax morale and how norms may evolve over time. The special focus is on buying black-market services. I apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain how personal norms may evolve due to one's own ... -
Consumption and Investment Demand when Health Evolves Stochastically
(2017-10)The health capital model of Grossman (1972) is extended to account for uncertainty in the rate at which a stock of health depreciates. Two versions of the model are contemplated, one with a fully functioning financial ... -
I Can’t Sleep! Relative Concerns and Sleep Behavior
(2017-10)We investigate the effect of relative concerns with respect to income on the quantity and quality of sleep using a long panel dataset on the sleep behavior of people in Germany. We find that relative income has a substantial ... -
Contract Choice and Trust in Informal Groundwater Markets
(2017-09-29)Contract Choice and Trust in Informal Groundwater Markets Yashodha Yashodha AKADEMISK AVHANDLING som med vederbörligt ... -
Essays on behavioral economics: Nudges, food consumption and procedural fairness
(2017-09-22)Decreasing meat consumption holds significant potential for the reduction of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and the mitigation of climate change. Fostering behavioral change to reduce climate emissions related to ... -
Power Outages, Increasing Block Tariffs and Billing Knowledge
(2017-09-16)Preferences for Improved Electricity Services in Developing Countries: Household’s Defensive Behavior and Willingness to Pay Access to electricity has received much attention but its reliability has been given less focus. ... -
‘Fair’ Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
(2017-09)Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To opera- tionalize this approach, preference heterogeneity ... -
Reducing the gap between stated and real behavior in transportation studies: The use of an oath script
(2017-09)We investigate whether taking an oath in a survey situation affects respondent behavior in choice experiments with a focus on travel time, comfort, and cost. We conduct two studies in Beijing: one with car commuters and ... -
Birth Weight, Neonatal Intensive Care Units, and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Macrosomic Babies
(2017-09)Using a regression discontinuity design, this study estimates the effect of extra medical care on the short-run health of babies born at the high end of the birth weight distribution. Consistent with the notion that neonatal ... -
Competitive Neutrality and the Cost and Quality of Welfare Services
(2017-08)Competition between private and public firms can increase service quality and reduce public costs in markets for tax-financed welfare services with non-contractible quality. Synergies arise from combining high-powered ... -
Essays in Environmental Management and Economics: Public Health, Risk and Strategic Environmental Assessment
(2017-08-18)Abstract Current large-scale environmental and climate change leads to the emergence of new and potentially dramatic risks for individuals and societies. The welfare costs associated with these risks largely depend on our ... -
Media visibility and social tolerance: Evidence from USA
(2017-07)I study the impact of media visibility of people of colour on the rate of hate crimes motivated by race or ethnicity in the United States. To do so, I construct a novel measure of state-level media visibility of people of ... -
Education, norms, and gender equality
(2017-06)Despite major developments in gender equality, differences between men and women’s economic and social behaviors remain. Several studies demonstrate the importance of gender norms in explaining a significant part of the ... -
Too slow a change? Deep habits, consumption shifts and transitory tax
(2017-06)This paper studies shifts in the consumption bundle when consumption is subject to habit formation, and consumers do not internalize this habit formation process. Habits are goodspecific, or ’deep’, and cause persistence ... -
Incentives and Forest Reform: Evidence from China
(2017-05-24)Chapter I: Forest Devolution Reform in China: A Trigger for Investment or Deforestation? I investigate whether and how the devolution of forestland to households in China triggered investment in forestland, and its effect ... -
Within-Family Inequalities in Human Capital Accumulation in India: Birth Order and Gender Effects
(2017-05)In this paper we investigate birth order and gender effects on the development of children’s human capital in India. We investigate both indicators of the child’s current stock of human capital and of investment into their ... -
Essays on forest conservation policies, weather and school attendance
(2017-05-04)Sammanfattningar: Paper I Heterogena lokala spridningseffekter från skyddade områden i Costa Rica Spridningseffekter kan reducera eller förstärka nettopåverkan av policies kopplade till markanvändning. Relativt lite är ... -
Post-Harvest Losses, Intimate Partner Violence and Food Security in Tanzania
(2017-05-02)High levels of food losses occurring after harvesting offset the effort to increase food production. This situation increases the risk of food insecurity and low incomes among smallholder farmers. But, my project finds ...