• Aid and child health: Local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi 

  Durevall, Dick; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie (University of Gothenburg, 2022-11)

  Abstract: Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, ...

• Why known unknowns may be better than knowns, and how that matters for the evolution of happiness 

  Stennek, Johan (University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)

  Rayo and Becker (2007) model happiness as an imperfect measurement tool: It provides a partial ordering of alternative courses of actions. In this note, decisionmakers use their inability to rank two actions, to infer ...

• Leading by example? EU citizens’ preferences for climate leadership 

  Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas (University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)

  For global problems like climate change, strong international agreements are difficult to achieve. Alternative solutions might therefore be necessary. In this paper, we study the support for climate leadership in seven ...

• Isolating nature from nurture: Does exposure to business and economics education make students more selfinterested? 

  Sundemo, Mattias; Löfgren, Åsa (University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)

  Does exposure to business and economics education make students more self-interested and less interested in a career that would contribute to a better society? Using a panel dataset of more than 900 individuals from a ...

• Sustainability preferences and financial decision-making among mutual fund investors 

  Löfgren, Åsa; Nordblom, Katarina (University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)

  In our representative sample of Swedish mutual fund investors, those who are sustainability motivated perceive investment choices more difficult than other investors. Of those who are sustainability motivated, 38 percent ...

• The Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Swedish Shrimp Fishers 

  Dutto, Davide; Mars, Krister; Eggert, Håkan (University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)

  This paper explores the effect of the perceived risk of the Swedish people of Covid-19 on daily auctioned shrimp prices from the start of the pandemic to the end of the year 2021. This topic is of interest to see whether ...

• Sexual objectification of women in media and the gender wage gap: Does exposure to objectifying pictures lower the reservation wage? 

  Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)

  Using an online experiment, we investigate the influence of sexual objectification in media on economic decision making. In the experiment, subjects are asked to evaluate advertisements in women’s magazines. In the treatment ...

• Saddlepoint approximations for credit portfolios with stochastic recoveries 

  Herbertsson, Alexander (University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)

  We study saddlepoint approximations to the tail-distribution for different credit portfolio losses in continuous time intensity based models which stochastic recoveries, under conditional independent homogeneous settings. ...

• Individual Carbon Footprint Reduction: Evidence from Pro-environmental Users of a Carbon Calculator 

  Enlund, Jakob; Andersson, David; Carlsson, Fredrik (University of Gothenburg, 2022-05)

  We provide the first estimates of how pro-environmental consumers reduce their total carbon footprint using a carbon calculator that covers all financial transactions. We use data from users of a carbon calculator that ...

• Specification of the Health Production Function and its Behavioral Implications 

  Bolin, Kristian; Caputo, Mikael R. (University of Gothenburg, 2022-05)

  The health production function of the canonical health-capital model is generalized to allow the state of health to affect the total and marginal products of health investment. If the total and marginal products of health ...

• Conflicts of Interest, Ethical Standards, and Competition in Legal Services 

  Bouckaert, Jan; Stennek, Johan (University of Gothenburg, 2022-04)

  We study how the legal profession manages representational conflicts of interest. Such conflicts arise when the same law firm represents clients with adverse interests. They may compromise the legal process, ultimately ...

• Fear and Economic Behavior 

  Andersson, Lina (University of Gothenburg, 2022-02)

  Fear is an important factor in decision-making under risk and uncertainty. Psychology research suggests that fear influences one’s risk attitude and fear may have important consequences for decisions concerning for example ...

• Is there a diminishing value of urban amenities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic? 

  van Vuuren, Aico (University of Gothenburg, 2022-01)

  We investigate whether the Covid-19 pandemic decreased the willingness to pay for urban amenities such as restaurants, cinemas and theaters. We do this by using a hedonic pricing model in combination with a time-gradient ...

• Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization 

  Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; Mitrut, Andreea (2021-12)

  : Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both ...

• Sustainable food: can food labels make consumers switch to meat substitutes? 

  Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (2021-12)

  Using a stated preference survey, we investigate whether the introduction of a set of food labels affects consumers´ willingness to make costly shifts from meat products to meat substitutes. We investigate the role of food ...

• Kill your darlings? Do new aid flows help achieve a poverty minimizing allocation of aid 

  Tengstan, Sven; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie (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! 

  Congdon Fors, Heather; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Lindskog, Annika (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 

  Carlsson, Fredrik; Ek, Claes; Lange, Andreas (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 

  Norrgren, Lisa (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 

  Hansson, Magnus (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? ...

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