Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Exploring Environmentally Significant Behaviors in a Multidimensional Perspective
(2013-03)This paper contributes to the recent literature exploring the determinants of individual environmental behaviors. Contrary to many previous studies, which consider single items as proxies of individuals' overall environmental ... -
Session Size and its Effect on Identity Building: Evidence from a public goods experiment
(2013-03)The effect of session size has largely been ignored in experimental studies, despite the possibility that it may play a role by changing people’s perception of the potential chance of encountering a certain type of people ... -
Discounting and Relative Consumption
(2013-03)We analyze optimal social discount rates when people derive utility from relative consumption. We compare the social, private, and conventional Ramsey rates. Assuming a positive growth rate, we find that 1) the social ... -
Publicly Provided Private Goods and Optimal Taxation when Consumers Have Positional Preferences
(2013-03)This paper analyzes optimal differential commodity taxation, together with optimal nonlinear income taxation, in order to deal with positional preferences. It also derives the optimal public provision of private goods both ... -
Do Safety Nets Promote Technology Adoption? Panel data evidence from rural Ethiopia
(2013-02)We use panel data from rural Ethiopia to investigate if participation in a safety net program enhances fertilizer adoption. Using a difference-in-difference estimator and inverse propensity score weighting we find that ... -
State-Variable Public Goods and Social Comparisons over Time
(2013-02)The optimal provision of a state-variable public good, where the global climate is the prime example, is analyzed in a model where people care about their relative consumption. We consider both keeping-up-with-the-Joneses ... -
The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
(2013-02)Previous studies on improved cookstove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to adoption over time. We use ... -
Natural Disasters and Government Turnover
(2013-02)Natural disasters have been linked to both violent conflict and, in some settings, poor economic growth, but do they also drive government parties out of office? We study government turnover in a global sample of more ... -
Are Natural Disasters Good for Economic Growth?
(2013-02)Natural disasters plague the populations of many countries, and the international commu- nity often seeks to alleviate the human suffering by means of humanitarian aid. Do natural disasters also have negative effects on ... -
A Western Reversal since the Neolithic? The long-run impact of early agriculture
(2013-01)While it is widely believed that regions which experienced a transition to Neolithic agriculture early also become institutionally and economically more advanced, many indicators suggest that within the Western agricultural ... -
Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution
(2013-01)Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as ... -
Integrating Soil Science into Agricultural Production Frontiers
(2012-12)This paper integrates soil science variables into an economic analysis of agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s highlands. The integration is valuable because farmers’ choice of inputs depends on both ... -
The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban Ethiopia
(2012-12)Using panel data spanning 15 years, this paper investigates the persistence and correlates of subjective and consumption poverty in urban Ethiopia. Despite the decline in consumption poverty in recent years, which has been ... -
Life Satisfaction in Urban Ethiopia: Trends and determinants
(2012-12)Most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity. In this paper, we use three rounds of panel data and ... -
Essays on the Economics of Sustainable Agricultural Technologies in Ethiopia
(2012-11-30)Abstracts This thesis consists of five self-contained papers: Paper 1: Adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices in rural Ethiopia The adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) ... -
Households' income-generating activities and marginal returns to labor in rural Tanzania
(2012-11)This study uses detailed household-level data to investigate income and activity diversification among households in rural Tanzania. Unlike previous research on diversification, I explicitly evalutate marginal returns ... -
Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Provision: A Tale of Confused Objectives, Mulitple Market Failures and Policy Challenges
(2012-10)Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend ... -
Essays in Political Economy of Development
(2012-11-05)Paper 1: Social Conflict, Fractionalization, and Polarization We develop a Conflict model linking Conflict intensity to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest ... -
A Markov Copula Model of Portfolio Credit Risk with Stochastic Intensities and Random Recoveries
(2012-10)In [4], the authors introduced a Markov copula model of portfolio credit risk. This model solves the top-down versus bottom-up puzzle in achieving efficient joint calibration to single-name CDS and to multi-name CDO ... -
Successful inflation targeting in Mozambique despite vulnerability to internal and external shocks
(2012-09)Inflation has proven to be an important obstacle to successful economic adjustment in many countries. Despite both internal and external shocks to the economy, Mozambique has succeeded in controlling the inflation to gain ...