Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Real Wages and Returns to Human Capital in Kenya Manufacturing firms
(2002)This paper studies how real wages and wage returns to human capital in Kenya manufacturing firms changed, using cross-section data sets from a survey conducted in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 2000. A quantile regression technique ... -
Family Background, Education and Earnings in Kenya
(2002)This paper uses data collected in 2000 to first estimate OLS and ordered probit models to measure correlation between family background and workers' education. Then, human capital earnings functions are estimated to examine ... -
Negative Externalities in Day Care: Optimal Tax Policy Response
(2002)Systematic pediatric evidence shows that the morbidity rates for children in day care are increasing in the group size. Sick children are usually cared for at home by parents. This creates a negative externality of ... -
Economic Determinants of Public Opinion. About Joining the EMU: The Case of Sweden
(2002)A potential Swedish membership in the third stage of the EMU (the currency union) will be determined in a referendum. The opinion polls preceding this referendum show strong variability in the Swedish public opinion ... -
THE EFFECT OF SICKNESS ON EARNINGS
(2001)The question addressed in this paper is whether sickness history affects annual earnings and hourly wages in Sweden. If poor health makes people less productive, we expect to find a negative effect of previous health ... -
Assessing the Employment Effects of Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden
(2002)Several studies have examined the effects of training programs on employment. Most of them assume that the effects of training are constant for all potential trainees. We use an econometric framework that allows studying ... -
A Structural Model of Childcare, Welfare, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
(2002)This paper considers the simultaneous relationship of the single mother's decision to choose paid childcare, welfare participation and labor supply, and estimates a structural model that allows for a free error covariance. ... -
Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation
(2001)This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent valuation method, are ... -
Technical efficiency in the Swedish trawl fishery for Norway lobster
(2001)Reducing fleet capacity in European fisheries is an important objective of the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy. The success of such programmes depends both on the variation and the level of efficiency within the ... -
Airport Marginal Cost Pricing: Discussion and an Application to Swedish Airports
(2002)We derive an optimal airport-pricing model, both with and without a constraint on the revenues, that includes all relevant external marginal costs,. Given the results of the model we discuss the implications on the profit ... -
BEQUESTS, GIFTS, AND EDUCATION Swedish evidence on parents transfer behavior
(2002)We study the motives behind parents' transfers to their children, and the relationship between tangible transfers and educational investments. Another issue is the channels parents choose for tangible transfers. Do they ... -
The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture
(2001)The article analyzes the economic reasons behind the rise of Neolithic agriculture some 10,000 years ago in consideration of evidence that agri-culture was not associated with increasing standards of living. On the basis ... -
Stochastic Production and Heterogeneous Risk Preferences: Commercial Fishers Gear Choices
(2001)As long as total effort cannot be completely controlled, a more thorough understanding of fishers' supply response decisions will be beneficial for fishery managers. In this paper, we present a model of fishers' gear ... -
THE VALUE OF RISK-FREE CIGARETTES - DO SMOKERS UNDERESTIMATE THE RISK?
(2001)The health risk of smoking is valued using the contingent valuation method, applied to a Swedish sample of smokers. The respondents were asked to put a value on newly developed cigarettes with no associated health risks. ... -
ARE ALL SCALES OPTIMAL IN DEA? THEORY AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
(2002)Policy recommendations concerning optimal scale of production units often have serious implications for the restructuring of a sector, while tests of natural monopoly have important implications for regulatory structure. ... -
Aid and Economic Development in Africa
(2006)The question discussed in this in this paper is whether foreign aid can help accelerate growth in African countries. The paper reviews growth determinants and growth constraints in Africa and discusses how aid can help ... -
Decomposed Effects of Democracy on Economic Freedom
(2002)Many previous empirical studies conclude that democracy increases economic freedom. However, these studies use highly aggregated indices of economic freedom, which eliminate interesting information and obstruct policy ...