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The rise of China: Competing or complementary to DAC aid flows in Africa?
(2016-09)This study investigates if the relationship between bilateral DAC aid and Chinese aid allocation is better described as competing aid flows, or if Chinese aid has been mainly a complement to DAC aid in Africa between the ... -
Intergenerational wealth mobility and the role of inheritance: Evidence from multiple generations
(2016-08)This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be explained by inheritances. ... -
Difference in Preferences or in Preference Orderings? Comparing Choices of Environmental Bureaucrats, Recreational Anglers, and the Public
(2016-08)Do Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bureaucrats represent the general public or are they more in line with an interest group? We study preferences for environmental policy using a choice experiment (CE) on three ... -
The Green Paradox and Interjurisdictional Competition across Space and Time
(2016-06)This paper demonstrates that unintended effects of climate policies (Green Paradox effects) also arise in general equilibrium when countries compete for mobile factors of production (capital and resources/energy). Second, ... -
Gold mining and education: a long-run resource curse in Africa?
(2016-06)We provide micro-level evidence on an important channel through which mineral resources may adversely affect development in the long-run: lower educational attainment. Combining Afrobarometer survey data with geocoded data ... -
Chinese aid and local corruption
(2016-06)Considering the mounting criticisms concerning Chinese aid practices, the present paper investigates whether Chinese aid projects fuel local-level corruption in Africa. To this end, we geographically match a new geo-referenced ... -
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
(2016-06)There is solid scientific evidence predicting that a large part of the developing world will suffer a greater incidence of extreme weather events, which may increase the incidence of displacement migration. We draw on the ... -
Why (field) experiments on unethical behavior are important: Comparing stated and revealed behavior
(2016-06)Understanding unethical behavior is essential to many phenomena in the real world. We carry out a field experiment in a unique setting that varies the levels of reciprocity and guilt in an ethical decision. A survey more ... -
Mind, Behaviour and Health - a Randomised Experiment
(2016-06)Behavioural attitudes toward risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the possibility ... -
On-the-job search and city structure
(2016-06)This paper investigates an equilibrium search model in which search frictions are increasing with the distance to a city’s central business district, allowing for on-the-job search and endogenous wage formation and land ... -
The Impact of Abortion Legalization on Fertility and Maternal Mortality: New Evidence from Mexico
(2016-06)We examine the effect of a large-scale, free, elective abortion program implemented in Mexico City in 2007. Prior to this program, all states and districts in Mexico had very limited, or no, access to elective abortion. ... -
Still unemployed, what next? Crime and unemployment duration
(2016-06)In this paper, I study the relationship between unemployment benefits, labour market conditions and crime in the light of increasing unemployment durations and temporary benefit extensions in the US. First, I find a ... -
Because of you I did not give up - How peers affect perseverance
(2016-06)Various empirical papers have shown that peers affect productivity and behavior in the workplace. However, the mechanisms through which peers influence each other are still largely unknown. In this laboratory experiment ... -
Social Comparisons and Optimal Taxation in a Small Open Economy
(2016-05)Almost all previous studies on optimal taxation and status consumption are based on closed model-economies. This paper analyzes how international capital mobility – which may constrain the use of capital income taxation ... -
Evaluation of the Impact of Forest Certification on Environmental Outcomes in Sweden
(2016-05)Voluntary forest certification is an increasingly popular tool allowing producers who meet stringent environmental standards to label their products in the marketplace and potentially achieve greater market access and ... -
Framing and Minimum Levels in Public Good Provision
(2016-04)Using a laboratory experiment in the field, we examine how the choice architecture of framing a social dilemma – give to or take from a public good – interacts with a policy intervention that enforces a minimum contribution ... -
Public Goods and Minimum Provision Levels: Does the institutional formation affect cooperation?
(2016-04)We investigate the role of institutional formation on the implementation of a binding minimum contribution level in a linear public goods game. Groups either face the minimum level exogenously imposed by a central authority ... -
Is there a hidden cost of imposing a minimum contribution level for public good contributions?
(2016-04)We examine the effects of either exogenously imposing or endogenously letting subjects choose whether to impose minimum contribution levels (MCLs) in a linear public goods experiment using the strategy method. Our results ... -
The Development of Development Economics
(2016-04)This paper discusses the historical roots of development economics and how it has changed over the last half century. We first identify the most important changes in orientation within development economics and discuss ... -
Social Norms and Information Diffusion in Water-saving Programs:Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Colombia
(2016-04)This paper investigates direct and spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at encouraging residential water savings in Colombia. The campaign was organized as a randomized field experiment, consisting of ...