Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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The Poor and Their Neighbors: Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2013-09-24)This thesis comprises of seven self-contained papers. While the papers are quite distinct in the questions they address and each is based on its own dataset, there are some relations between them either in the topic ... -
Essays on Environmental Taxation and Climate Policy
(2013-08-23)Paper I: Greenhouse gas taxes on animal food products - rationale, tax scheme and climate mitigation effects Agriculture is responsible for 25–30% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but has thus far ... -
Water Demand and Financing in Rwanda: An Empirical Analysis
(2013-08-23)Abstracts Paper 1: Water demand by unconnected households in urban districts of Rwanda In this paper, we analyse water demand by households in urban districts in Rwanda who currently lack a piped connection into their ... -
Essays on the Economics of Air Quality Control
(2013-05-23)Abstracts. This thesis consists of five self-contained chapters: Chapter 1: Effects of driving restrictions on air quality and car use in Bogota Rationing car use at certain times of the day based on license plate numbers ... -
Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
(2013-05-14)Paper I: Intra-household Decisions Making on Intertemporal Choices: An Experimental Study in Rural China. In this paper, we conduct an artefactual field experiment in rural China to investigate ... -
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Policies for Provision of Ecosystem Services
(2013-04-30)Abstract Paper 1: Incentives, Impacts, and Behavioural Issues in the Context of Payment for Ecosystem Services Programmes: Lessons for REDD+ Payment for environmental services (PES) aims to increase the provision of ... -
Essays on Gender Issues, Food Security, and Technology Adoption in East Africa.
(2013-04-15)This thesis consists of five self-contained papers: Paper 1: Are there systematic gender differences in the adoption of joint sustainable intensification practices? Evidence from Kenya This paper uses household- and ... -
Immigration, Work, and Welfare
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Essays on the Economics of Sustainable Agricultural Technologies in Ethiopia
(2012-11-30)Abstracts This thesis consists of five self-contained papers: Paper 1: Adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices in rural Ethiopia The adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) ... -
Essays in Political Economy of Development
(2012-11-05)Paper 1: Social Conflict, Fractionalization, and Polarization We develop a Conflict model linking Conflict intensity to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest ... -
Dynamic Investment Models, Employment Generation and Productivity – Evidence from Swedish Data
(2012-09-28)Paper 1: Effects of shocks and uncertainty on capital and labor in a real options model with variable capacity utilization This study analyzes the effects of uncertainty on investment, capital use and labor demand, in ... -
The Place of Conventional Economics in a World with Communities and Social Goods
(2012-05-09)Paper 1: Should Deliveries of Used Clothes to LDCs Be Supported? This is the journal version of a study of the worldwide used-clothes trade – with focus on Sweden’s participation in it – undertaken for Sida (the Swedish ... -
Essays on Development: Household Income, Education, and Female Political Participation and Representation
(2012-04-12)The thesis consists of four self-contained papers. Paper 1: The Push Towards UPE and the Determinants of the Demand for Education in Tanzania. This paper uses household data to investigate the determinants of demand for ... -
Entry, Competition and Productivity in Retail
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Essays on Industrial Development and Political Economy of Africa
(2011-09-05)Paper 1: Returns to Capital and Informality. We study the pattern of returns to capital in the formal and informal manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia. We use a rich panel dataset of manufacturing firms in the formal sector ... -
Essays on Energy and Climate Policy – Green Certificates, Emissions Trading and Electricity Prices
(2011-05-25)Paper I: An Electricity Trading System with Tradable Green Certificates and CO₂-emission Allowances Combinations of various policy instruments to deal with the threat of climate change are used throughout the world. The ... -
Essays on Natural Resource Economics
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Parallel Trade, Reference Pricing and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Market: Theory and Evidence
(2011-05-03)Paper I. Reference Pricing: Making Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals Work This paper shows that parallel trade makes pharmaceutical manufacturers reduce their prices in the home (importing) country more when it is combined ... -
Essays on Shocks, Welfare, and Poverty Dynamics: Microeconometric Evidence from Ethiopia
(2011-04-20)Five self-contained papers constitute this thesis. Paper 1: Does fertilizer use respond to rainfall variability? Panel data evidence from urban Ethiopia In this article, we use farmers’ actual experiences with changes ... -
Gender, Work, and Attitudes
(2011-04-19)Abstract The thesis consists of four self-contained papers. Paper 1: The long term effect of own and spousal parental leave on mothers’ earnings We take advantage of the introduction of a Norwegian parental leave reform ...