Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Essays on behavioral economics: Nudges, food consumption and procedural fairness
(2017-09-22)Decreasing meat consumption holds significant potential for the reduction of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and the mitigation of climate change. Fostering behavioral change to reduce climate emissions related to ... -
Power Outages, Increasing Block Tariffs and Billing Knowledge
(2017-09-16)Preferences for Improved Electricity Services in Developing Countries: Household’s Defensive Behavior and Willingness to Pay Access to electricity has received much attention but its reliability has been given less focus. ... -
Essays in Environmental Management and Economics: Public Health, Risk and Strategic Environmental Assessment
(2017-08-18)Abstract Current large-scale environmental and climate change leads to the emergence of new and potentially dramatic risks for individuals and societies. The welfare costs associated with these risks largely depend on our ... -
Incentives and Forest Reform: Evidence from China
(2017-05-24)Chapter I: Forest Devolution Reform in China: A Trigger for Investment or Deforestation? I investigate whether and how the devolution of forestland to households in China triggered investment in forestland, and its effect ... -
Essays on forest conservation policies, weather and school attendance
(2017-05-04)Sammanfattningar: Paper I Heterogena lokala spridningseffekter från skyddade områden i Costa Rica Spridningseffekter kan reducera eller förstärka nettopåverkan av policies kopplade till markanvändning. Relativt lite är ... -
Post-Harvest Losses, Intimate Partner Violence and Food Security in Tanzania
(2017-05-02)High levels of food losses occurring after harvesting offset the effort to increase food production. This situation increases the risk of food insecurity and low incomes among smallholder farmers. But, my project finds ... -
Bitter divisions: inequality, identity and cooperation
(2017-04-25)Overriding inequality Group identity, beliefs and cooperation in asymmetric social dilemmas Heterogeneity reduces cooperation. Understanding why can help mitigate the problem. As salient interpersonal differences reduce ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Fisheries: Coordination and Cooperation
(2017-04-25)Kapitel 1: Samarbete under risk och sann osäkerhet (ambiguity). ... -
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 ... -
Essays on Field Experiments and Impact Evaluation
(2015-12-09)Paper 1: Improving Welfare Through Climate-Friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification We use rich survey data to investigate the economic impact of a climate-friendly rice farming method known as ... -
Economic Determinants and Consequences of Political Institutions
(2015-10-15)This thesis is comprised of four empirical essays on the economic determinants and consequences of political institutions. It opens with a broad perspective on the link between the state throughout history and the past ... -
Corporate Governance and the Design of Board of Directors
(2015-09-11)Paper 1: “The Effects of Board Independence on Busy Directors and Firm Value: Evidence from Regulatory Changes in Sweden.” I use an exogenous change to the rules of corporate governance for Swedish firms in 2005 to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Essays on Team Cooperation and Firm Performance
(2014-05-23)Paper I: Cooperation in teams: The role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution. Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as crucial means to reduce free riding and to promote cooperation in ... -
Essays on Development and Experimental Economics: Migration, Discrimination and Positional Concerns
(2013-11-22)Paper 1: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in the Norwegian Housing Market: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity We test for gender, class, and ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian rental housing market using fake application ...