Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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How Policy Legitimacy Affects Policy Support Throughout the Policy Cycle
(2016-12)We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e. the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ... -
Interactions among High-Frequency Traders
(2016-12)Using unique transactions data for individual high-frequency trading (HFT) firms in the U.K. equity market, we examine the extent to which the trading activity of individual HFT firms is correlated with each other and the ... -
Tolling on the River: Trade and Informal Taxation on the Congo
(2016-11)It is by now generally agreed that government corruption is a serious impediment to economic growth. An intensive use of informal tolls and bribes on roads and waterways still prevail in several developing countries, ... -
Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
(2016-11)Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level ... -
Does increasing compulsory education decrease or displace adolescent crime? New evidence from administrative and victimization data
(2016-10)This paper estimates the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the implementation a reform that increases the school leaving age in Italy by one year. We find that the Reform increases the ... -
Do you trust me? – Go Fish! A Study on Trust and Fisheries Management
(2016-10)This paper investigates trust among stakeholders in fisheries management. We asked the general public, environmental bureaucrats, and recreational and commercial fishers whether they believed various stakeholders have ... -
The Fall of Capital Punishment and the Rise of Prisons: How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts
(2016-10)This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision-making using a large archival data set from the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London from 1715 to 1900. We take advantage of three natural experiments ... -
Inequality Aversion and Marginal Income Taxation
(2016-10)This paper deals with tax policy responses to inequality aversion by examining the first-best Pareto-efficient marginal tax structure when people are inequality averse. In doing so, we distinguish between four different ... -
Social Identity and Role Models
(2016-09)We present a lab-in-the-field experiment and surveys of marginalised Roma children in Slovakia to examine whether reminding Roma of their ethnicity reduces their performance in a cognitive task. Research on social identity ... -
The rise of China: Competing or complementary to DAC aid flows in Africa?
(2016-09)This study investigates if the relationship between bilateral DAC aid and Chinese aid allocation is better described as competing aid flows, or if Chinese aid has been mainly a complement to DAC aid in Africa between the ... -
Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance: Evidence from multiple generations
(2016-08)This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be explained by inheritances. ... -
Difference in Preferences or in Preference Orderings? Comparing Choices of Environmental Bureaucrats, Recreational Anglers, and the Public
(2016-08)Do Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bureaucrats represent the general public or are they more in line with an interest group? We study preferences for environmental policy using a choice experiment (CE) on three ... -
The Green Paradox and Interjurisdictional Competition across Space and Time
(2016-06)This paper demonstrates that unintended effects of climate policies (Green Paradox effects) also arise in general equilibrium when countries compete for mobile factors of production (capital and resources/energy). Second, ... -
Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa?
(2016-06)We provide micro-level evidence on an important channel through which mineral resources may adversely affect development in the long-run: lower educational attainment. Combining Afrobarometer survey data with geocoded data ... -
Chinese aid and local corruption
(2016-06)Considering the mounting criticisms concerning Chinese aid practices, the present paper investigates whether Chinese aid projects fuel local-level corruption in Africa. To this end, we geographically match a new geo-referenced ... -
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
(2016-06)There is solid scientific evidence predicting that a large part of the developing world will suffer a greater incidence of extreme weather events, which may increase the incidence of displacement migration. We draw on the ... -
Why (field) experiments on unethical behavior are important: Comparing stated and revealed behavior
(2016-06)Understanding unethical behavior is essential to many phenomena in the real world. We carry out a field experiment in a unique setting that varies the levels of reciprocity and guilt in an ethical decision. A survey more ... -
Mind, Behaviour and Health - a Randomised Experiment
(2016-06)Behavioural attitudes toward risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the possibility ... -
On-the-job search and city structure
(2016-06)This paper investigates an equilibrium search model in which search frictions are increasing with the distance to a city’s central business district, allowing for on-the-job search and endogenous wage formation and land ...