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Tax Morale and Policy Intervention
(2017-11)This paper deals with tax morale and how norms may evolve over time. The special focus is on buying black-market services. I apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain how personal norms may evolve due to one's own ... -
Consumption and Investment Demand when Health Evolves Stochastically
(2017-10)The health capital model of Grossman (1972) is extended to account for uncertainty in the rate at which a stock of health depreciates. Two versions of the model are contemplated, one with a fully functioning financial ... -
I Can’t Sleep! Relative Concerns and Sleep Behavior
(2017-10)We investigate the effect of relative concerns with respect to income on the quantity and quality of sleep using a long panel dataset on the sleep behavior of people in Germany. We find that relative income has a substantial ... -
‘Fair’ Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
(2017-09)Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To opera- tionalize this approach, preference heterogeneity ... -
Reducing the gap between stated and real behavior in transportation studies: The use of an oath script
(2017-09)We investigate whether taking an oath in a survey situation affects respondent behavior in choice experiments with a focus on travel time, comfort, and cost. We conduct two studies in Beijing: one with car commuters and ... -
Birth Weight, Neonatal Intensive Care Units, and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Macrosomic Babies
(2017-09)Using a regression discontinuity design, this study estimates the effect of extra medical care on the short-run health of babies born at the high end of the birth weight distribution. Consistent with the notion that neonatal ... -
Competitive Neutrality and the Cost and Quality of Welfare Services
(2017-08)Competition between private and public firms can increase service quality and reduce public costs in markets for tax-financed welfare services with non-contractible quality. Synergies arise from combining high-powered ... -
Media visibility and social tolerance: Evidence from USA
(2017-07)I study the impact of media visibility of people of colour on the rate of hate crimes motivated by race or ethnicity in the United States. To do so, I construct a novel measure of state-level media visibility of people of ... -
Education, norms, and gender equality
(2017-06)Despite major developments in gender equality, differences between men and women’s economic and social behaviors remain. Several studies demonstrate the importance of gender norms in explaining a significant part of the ... -
Too slow a change? Deep habits, consumption shifts and transitory tax
(2017-06)This paper studies shifts in the consumption bundle when consumption is subject to habit formation, and consumers do not internalize this habit formation process. Habits are goodspecific, or ’deep’, and cause persistence ... -
Within-Family Inequalities in Human Capital Accumulation in India: Birth Order and Gender Effects
(2017-05)In this paper we investigate birth order and gender effects on the development of children’s human capital in India. We investigate both indicators of the child’s current stock of human capital and of investment into their ... -
Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa
(2017-04)Chinese firms operating in Africa are often accused of violating international labour standards and not adhering with national labour laws. Considering China’s tendency to maintain control over development projects throughout ... -
An empirical model of dyadic link formation in a network with unobserved heterogeneity
(2017-03)In this paper I study a fixed effects model of dyadic link formation for directed networks. I discuss inference on structural parameters as well as a test of model specification. In the model, an agent's linking decisions ... -
Cost Pass-Through in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2017-03)Cost pass-through to retail prices shows how changes in marginal costs are allocated between producers and consumers, and it is therefore closely related to market structure and competition. This paper uses Swedish data ... -
Outmigration and income assimilation during the first post-EU-enlargement migrants’ first decade in Sweden
(2017-03)This study follows a random sample of 20% of the earliest post-EU-enlargement immigrants during their first decade in Sweden, studying their patterns of outmigration and income assimilation. The results show that ... -
Mother’s Time Allocation, Child Care and Child Cognitive Development
(2017-02)This paper analyzes the effects of maternal employment and non-parental child care on child cognitive development, taking into account the mother's time allocation between leisure and child-care time. I estimate a behavioral ... -
How long do you think it will take? Field Evidence on Gender Differences in Time Optimism
(2017-02)Evidence from ten natural field studies comparing long-distance runners' incentivized predictions of race finishing time with their actual finishing time is reported. A modest but regular bias is found. Male runners are ... -
Healthy by Association: The effect of social participation on self-rated physical and psychological well-being
(2017-02)This paper investigates the effect of active social participation on individual self-rated physical and psychological well-being. The theoretical model shows that individual's health investment increases if he invests time ... -
Real-Estate Agent Commission Structure and Sales Performance
(2017-02)Do higher real-estate agent fees imply better performance? This study uses a nation-wide dataset of residential real-estate transactions in the Netherlands from 1985 to 2011 to provide evidence against this. Brokers with ...