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Kill your darlings? Do new aid flows help achieve a poverty minimizing allocation of aid
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)In this study, we derive a poverty-minimizing allocation rule, based on which we assess the poverty-efficiency of actual aid allocations, with a special focus on the comparative impact of new donors and new non-aid flows. ... -
Harmful norms: Can social convention theory explain the persistence of female genital cutting in Africa!
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)This paper investigates the explanatory power of social convention theory for explaining the persistence of female genital cutting (FGC) in a broad sample of African countries. While influential in policy circles, the ... -
All it takes is one: The effect of weakest-link and summation aggregation on public good provision under threshold uncertainty
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)We report experimental evidence on the voluntary provision of public goods under threshold uncertainty. By explicitly comparing two prominent technologies, summation and weakest link, we show that uncertainty is particularly ... -
Time Preferences, Illness, and Death
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-10)This paper investigates the predictive power of time preferences on the risk of early mortality and illness in adulthood. Using a unique Swedish cohort of 12,956 individuals born in 1953, interviewed in 1966, and followed ... -
Evolution of topics in central bank speech communication
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-10)This paper studies the content of central bank speech communication from 1997 through 2020 and asks the following questions: (i) What global topics do central banks talk about? (ii) How do these topics evolve over time? ... -
CAPABILITY, HEALTH, AND THE LABOUR MARKET – THE RETIREMENT DECISION
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-09)The time of retirement is analyzed in a theoretical framework taking capability and health into account. Capability if formalized as a stock characteristic which determines the attained amounts of a composite good which ... -
Impacts of Climate Policy and Natural Disasters: Evidence from China
(2021-08-17)The last decade has seen heightened interest in carbon pricing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions responsible for anthropogenic climate change. Over the past decade, China–responsible for over a quarter of global carbon ... -
Gender Policy and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-07)In 1995, Colombia signed the first legally binding international treaty that criminalizes all forms of violence against women. After this, the government took a number of steps to improve laws and policies, but progress ... -
An App Call a Day Keeps the Patient Away? Substitution of Online and In-Person Doctor Consultations Among Young Adults
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-06, r)The emergence of markets for on-demand online physician consultations –direct-to-consumer telemedicine (DCT) – is currently transforming many healthcare settings. DCT may be a cost-effective substitute for ordinary ... -
Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Non-Welfarist Approaches
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-06)This paper analyzes optimal taxation of charitable giving to a public good in a Mirrleesian framework with social comparisons. Leisure separability together with zero transaction costs of giving imply that charitable giving ... -
Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-06)Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in African ... -
Echoes of Violent Conflict: The Effect of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Hate Crimes in the U.S.
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-05)Do social identity ties facilitate the spread of violent conflict? We assess whether the Israeli-Palestinian conflict causes hate crime towards Jews and Muslims in the U.S using daily data between 2000-2016. We measure the ... -
Norm-based feedback on household waste: Large-scale field experiments in two Swedish municipalities
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-05)We conduct separate randomized controlled trials of norm-based feedback nudges on household waste in two municipalities in western Sweden. Our main treatment presents recipients with accurate, household-specific feedback ... -
Peers, policy, and attitudes as drivers of antibiotic prescribing
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-05)In this study we investigated how treatment norms about antibiotic use affect a doctor´s decision to prescribe antibiotics. We also investigated the attitudes and behavior of the same physicians as private persons. We find ... -
Essays on Public Policy in the Informal Sector Context
(2021-05-21)The Price Sensitivity of the Demand for Health Insurance – Evidence from the Community Health Insurance Scheme in Rwanda This study estimates the price elasticity of the demand for health insurance, exploiting the variation ... -
Entry Regulations and Product Variety in Retail
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-04)This paper estimates a dynamic model of store adjustments in product variety that considers multiproduct service technology to evaluate the impact of entry regulations on variety and long-run profits in Swedish retail. ... -
Empirical tests of exchange rate and stock return models
(2021-03-31)Abstracts to ”Empirical tests of exchange rate and stock return models” Order flow in the Foreign Exchange Market Price discovery in foreign exchange markets is explored using Swedish data including trades from both the ... -
Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-03)We analyze the extent and consequences of unequal representation on juries in Harris County, Texas. We first document that residents from predominantly white and high-income neighborhoods are substantially over-represented ... -
Land Property Rights, Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Panel 1000-2015 CE
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-03)Since the transition to agricultural production, property rights to land have been a key institution for economic development. Clearly defined land rights provide economic agents with increased access to credit, secure ... -
Nudges and Threats: Soft vs Hard Incentives for Tax Compliance
(2021-02)We study what induces delinquent taxpayers to pay their taxes due. We use high quality administrative data from the Swedish Tax Agency. We find a strong effect of the standard enforcement regime: a threat of having the ...