Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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How much does it take? Willingness to switch to meat substitutes
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-01)Meat production and consumption have several negative environmental externalities and health impacts. Using a stated preference survey, this study identifies main barriers to and drivers of switching to the following meat ... -
Emissions Trading Schemes and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from China
(2020-11)This paper examines the impact of carbon emissions trading schemes (ETS) on technical change proxied by the number of green patents in the context of the pilot ETS in China. I find a small increase of 0.16 patents per firm ... -
Are women less effective leaders than men? Evidence from experiments using coordination games
(2020-11)We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female ... -
Celebrity Endorsement in Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavior
(2020-10)We conduct a natural field experiment on the effect of having a celebrity endorse an information campaign aiming to induce pro-environmental behavior in the context of single-use plastics consumption. We find that an ... -
Optimal fuel taxation with suboptimal health choices
(2020-10)Transport has a large number of signi cant externalities including carbon emissions, air pollution, accidents, and congestion. Active travel such as cycling and walking can reduce these externalities. Moreover, public ... -
The Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment
(2020-10 an)This article estimates a dynamic structural model of firm R&D investment in twelve Swedish manufacturing industries and uses it to measure rates of return to R&D and to simulate the impact of trade restrictions on the ... -
The effect of information on market activity; evidence from vehicle recalls
(2020-10)We evaluate the effect of vehicle recalls on vehicle transactions in the second-hand market. Using a rich dataset of Dutch vehicle registrations, we exploit the quasi-experimental variation in recalls across nearly-identical ... -
Determinants of Economies of Scope in Retail
(2020-08)This paper studies the determinants of economies of scope and quantifies their impact on the extensive and intensive product margins in retail. We use a framework based on a multiproduct technology to model stores’ incentives ... -
Convergence rate of estimators of clustered panel models with misclassification
(2020-08)We study kmeans clustering estimation of panel data models with a latent group structure and N units and T time periods under long panel asymptotics. We show that the group-speci c coe cients can be estimated at the ... -
Closing wells; fossil exploration and abandonment in the energy transition
(2020-08)Despite ambitious climate goals and already substantial stocks of developed fossil energy reserves, development of new fossil energy reserves continues to be high. This raises concerns, as it reinforces the fossil industry’s ... -
Serial-correlation-robust power calculation for the analysis-of-covariance estimator
(2020-06)Ex-ante power calculation is an essential part of the toolkit of experimental economics. In panel experiments, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is more efficient than differencein- differences and is often preferred. The ... -
THE INDIVIDUAL WELFARE COSTS OF STAY-AT-HOME POLICIES
(2020-06)This paper reports the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate the private welfare costs of stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is conducted on a large and representative sample of the ... -
The Economics of Coercive Institutions, Conflict, and Development
(2020-05-26)This dissertation is a compilation of three papers that put together my research interests on the effects of institutions on development outcomes with inequality as the connecting thread. The first chapter concerns ... -
The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
(2020-05)We examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed over the past decade in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate ... -
Inequality Aversion, Externalities, and Pareto-Efficient Income taxation
(2020-05)Abstract This paper analyzes Pareto-efficient marginal income taxation taking into account externalities induced through individual inequality aversion, meaning that people have preferences for equality. In doing so, we ... -
Essays on Culture, Institutions, and Economic Development
(2020-05-18)Culture and institutions are important to understand individual behaviors and economic development. In this thesis, I study the origins of cultural divergence across societies, the emergence of private property rights, and ... -
Empirical Essays on Education and Health Policy Evaluation
(2020-05-13)Chapter 1: Impact of School Peers from the Same Region-of-Origin on Endogamy and Work Segregation: Evidence from Sweden This study estimates how the quasi-random variation in the proportion of school peers from the same ... -
Food labels: how consumers value moral, environmental, and health aspects of meat consumption
(2020-04)Policy changes could improve health and environmental outcomes by addressing the many externalities and internalities related to food consumption. Using a stated preference approach, we investigate to what extent consumers ... -
Economic and Intergenerational Decision-Making in Families
(2020-03-02)This thesis studies economic decision-making and preferences within the family, household and close social environment. Within these social units, individuals often make decisions on the use and allocation of resources ... -
Does teaching school children about recycling reduce household waste?
(2020-02)Reduced waste generation is a prioritized environmental policy objective in the EU as well as worldwide. We perform a randomized controlled trial in Sweden with school children aged 10-16 to evaluate an intervention ...