Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, II: The Relation between Solidarity and Unity
(2015-09)This paper demonstrates that the decisions by workers of different skills to unite to form industry unions is closely linked to the egalitarian wage policies that such unions pursue. These results help interpret the stylized ... -
Do the land-poor gain from agricultural investments? Empirical evidence from Zambia using panel data
(2015-08)In the context of the global land rush, some portray large-scale land acquisitions as a potent threat to the livelihoods of already marginalized rural farming households in Africa. In order to avoid the potential pitfall ... -
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
(2015-08)The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being functions to simultaneously ... -
Essays on Takeovers and Executive Compensation
(2015-05-08)Paper 1. The non-US premium discount in global takeovers This paper examines takeover premia around the world and documents a significant discount in bid offers to target firms outside the US. Controlling for deal-level ... -
Essays on behavioral economics and policy design
(2015-05-08)Chapter 1: Social norms and information diffusion in water-saving programs: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Colombia This paper investigates spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at ... -
Mining Booms in Africa and Local Welfare Effects: Labor Markets, Women’s Empowerment and Criminality
(2015-05-08)The role that extractive industries can play in processes of economic development is frequently described as, at best non-existent, or at worst, persistently negative. Extractive industries, while focusing on unearthing ... -
Determinants of Health Capital at Birth: Evidence from Policy Interventions
(2015-05-07)Paper I: Austerity Measures and Infant Health. Lessons from an Unexpected Wage Cut Policy We investigate the effects on health at birth of a shock generated by a major (25%) and unexpected wage cut austerity measure that ... -
Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
(2015-05)This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature ... -
Keeping up with the Joneses, the Smiths and the Tanakas: On International Tax Coordination and Social Comparisons
(2015-05)Much evidence suggests that between-country social comparisons have become more important over time due to globalization. This paper analyzes optimal income taxation in a multi-country economy, where consumers derive utility ... -
Long-Run Cultural Divergence: Evidence From the Neolithic Revolution
(2015-05)This paper investigates the long-run infuence of the Neolithic Revolution on contemporary cultural norms and institutions as reflected in the dimension of collectivism-individualism. We outline an agricultural origins-model ... -
Testing preference formation in learning design contingent valuation (LDCV) using advanced information and repetitive treatments
(2015-04)Policymakers have largely replaced Single Bounded Discrete Choice (SBDC) valuation by the more statistically efficient repetitive methods; Double Bounded Discrete Choice (DBDC) and Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE). ... -
Spending time together? Effects on the retirement decision from partner’s labour market status
(2015-03)In this paper we study retirement decisions and more specifically, the influence of a partner’s labour market status on this decision. We use information from three waves of the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in ... -
Intuitive cooperation refuted: Commentary on Rand et al. (2012) and Rand et al. (2014)
(2015-03)We show that Rand et al. (2012) and Rand et al. (2014)—who argue that cooperation is intuitive—provide an incorrect interpretation of their own data. They make the mistake of inferring intuition from relative decision times ... -
Divergence in Stakeholders’ Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden
(2015-03)A great deal of biodiversity can be found in private forests, and protecting it requires taking into consideration the preferences of key stakeholders. In this study, we examine and compare the valuation of forest attributes ... -
Cooperation and paradoxes in climate economics
(2015-03-04)Paper I: Strategic Carbon Taxation and Energy Pricing: The Role of Innovation. This paper uses a dynamic game to investigate the strategic interactions between carbon taxation by a coalition of resource consumers and ... -
Are Fairtrade Prices Fair? An Analysis of the Distribution of Returns in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2015-02)Consumers pay a premium for Fair Trade coffee, often assuming that it mainly benefits poor coffee farmers. However, several studies report that most of the premium accrues to actors in the consumer countries, such as ... -
Environmental Policy and the Size Distribution of Firms
(2015-02)In this paper we analyze the effects of environmental policies on the size distribution of firms. We model a stationary industry where the observed size distribution is a solution to the profit maximization problem of ... -
Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden
(2015-02)This study estimates the fiscal cost of refugee immigration. This is done by calculating the total value of economic resources that are redistributed through the public sector in Sweden in 2007 to the population of immigrants ... -
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
(2015-02)We investigate the efficiency and distributional consequences of a corruptionfighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam ...