Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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The Impact of Abortion Legalization on Fertility and Maternal Mortality: New Evidence from Mexico
(2016-06)We examine the effect of a large-scale, free, elective abortion program implemented in Mexico City in 2007. Prior to this program, all states and districts in Mexico had very limited, or no, access to elective abortion. ... -
Still unemployed, what next? Crime and unemployment duration
(2016-06)In this paper, I study the relationship between unemployment benefits, labour market conditions and crime in the light of increasing unemployment durations and temporary benefit extensions in the US. First, I find a ... -
Because of you I did not give up - How peers affect perseverance
(2016-06)Various empirical papers have shown that peers affect productivity and behavior in the workplace. However, the mechanisms through which peers influence each other are still largely unknown. In this laboratory experiment ... -
Social Comparisons and Optimal Taxation in a Small Open Economy
(2016-05)Almost all previous studies on optimal taxation and status consumption are based on closed model-economies. This paper analyzes how international capital mobility – which may constrain the use of capital income taxation ... -
Evaluation of the Impact of Forest Certification on Environmental Outcomes in Sweden
(2016-05)Voluntary forest certification is an increasingly popular tool allowing producers who meet stringent environmental standards to label their products in the marketplace and potentially achieve greater market access and ... -
Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics – Cooperation, Emotions and Health
(2016-05-25)This thesis consists of four self-contained papers that explore issues in human behavior and their implications for policy design. The main method used in all four papers consists of lab experiments, a method that facilitates ... -
Framing and Minimum Levels in Public Good Provision
(2016-04)Using a laboratory experiment in the field, we examine how the choice architecture of framing a social dilemma – give to or take from a public good – interacts with a policy intervention that enforces a minimum contribution ... -
Public Goods and Minimum Provision Levels: Does the institutional formation affect cooperation?
(2016-04)We investigate the role of institutional formation on the implementation of a binding minimum contribution level in a linear public goods game. Groups either face the minimum level exogenously imposed by a central authority ... -
Is there a hidden cost of imposing a minimum contribution level for public good contributions?
(2016-04)We examine the effects of either exogenously imposing or endogenously letting subjects choose whether to impose minimum contribution levels (MCLs) in a linear public goods experiment using the strategy method. Our results ... -
The Development of Development Economics
(2016-04)This paper discusses the historical roots of development economics and how it has changed over the last half century. We first identify the most important changes in orientation within development economics and discuss ... -
Social Norms and Information Diffusion in Water-saving Programs:Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Colombia
(2016-04)This paper investigates direct and spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at encouraging residential water savings in Colombia. The campaign was organized as a randomized field experiment, consisting of ... -
The Changing Structure of Swedish Foreign Aid
(2016-03)The study investigates how the composition and character of aid of Swedish aid has changed over time, and what effects these changes have had for the potential to realize key aspects of the Paris agenda such as ownership, ... -
The hidden costs of nudging: Experimental evidence from reminders in fundraising
(2016-03)We document the hidden costs of one of the most policy-relevant nudges, reminders. Sending reminders, while proven effective in facilitating behavior change, may come at a cost for both senders and receivers. Using a large ... -
How are you? How's it going? What's up? What's happening? Nudging people to tell us how they really are
(2016-03)We investigate a novel approach to reduce measurement error in subjective well-being (SWB) data. Using a between-subject design, half of the subjects are asked to promise to answer the survey questions truthfully in an ... -
Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
(2016-03)This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment ... -
Frustration and Anger in Games: A First Empirical Test of the Theory
(2016-02)Anger can be a strong behavioral force, with important consequences for human interaction. For example, angry individuals may become hostile in their dealings with others, and this has strategic consequences. Battigalli, ... -
A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
(2016-02)This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act ... -
The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime and the Labor Market
(2016-02)This paper uses detailed individual register data to identify the causal effect of mandatory peacetime military conscription in Sweden on the lives of young men born in the 1970s and 80s. Because draftees are positively ... -
Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
(2016-01)To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of ... -
The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation
(2016-01)In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a ...