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Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi
(2013-08)The impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has received attention recently, since changes in population structure can impact on future economic development. We analyze the effect of AIDS on actual and ... -
Corruption along ethnic lines: A study of individual corruption experiences in 17 African countries
(2013-08)While a growing literature relates macro variation in corruption to ethnic divisions, existing studies have paid little attention to the possible existence of systematic micro variation in corruption along ethnic lines. ... -
Intertemporal choice shifts in households: Do they occur and are they good?
(2013-06)We examine whether and to what extent joint choices are more or less patient and time-consistent than individual choices in households. We use data from an artefactual field experiment where both individual and joint time ... -
Tangible Temptation in the Social Dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control
(2013-05)The social dilemma may contain, within the individual, a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public ... -
Rejection Probabilities for a Battery of Unit-Root Tests
(2013-05)If the researcher tests each model in a battery at the a % significance level, the probability that at least one test rejects is generally larger than a %. For five unit-root models, this paper uses Monte Carlo simulation ... -
Spatial Policies and Land Use Patterns: Optimal and market allocations
(2013-05)Environmental conditions and pollution levels have been proven to affect firms and households location decisions in various ways. In this paper, we study the opti- mal and equilibrium distribution of industrial and ... -
The Effect of EU-ETS on Swedish Industry's Investment in Carbon Mitigating Technologies
(2013-04)The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) is so far the largest emissions trading system in the world. It covers about 12000 installations, representing approximately 45% of EU emissions of CO2, with the ... -
Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents
(2013-03. U)A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the ... -
Intimate Partner Violence and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2013-03 Re)We investigate the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV among married women using Demographic and Health Survey data from ten sub-Saharan African countries, and find a strong association. The ... -
Amenity Values of Proximity to National Wildlife Refuges: An analysis of urban residential property values
(2013-03)The National Wildlife Refuge system is a network of permanently protected open space encompassing more than 150 million acres across 50 states. Maintaining such a large network of permanently protected open space can put ... -
Exploring Environmentally Significant Behaviors in a Multidimensional Perspective
(2013-03)This paper contributes to the recent literature exploring the determinants of individual environmental behaviors. Contrary to many previous studies, which consider single items as proxies of individuals' overall environmental ... -
Session Size and its Effect on Identity Building: Evidence from a public goods experiment
(2013-03)The effect of session size has largely been ignored in experimental studies, despite the possibility that it may play a role by changing people’s perception of the potential chance of encountering a certain type of people ... -
Discounting and Relative Consumption
(2013-03)We analyze optimal social discount rates when people derive utility from relative consumption. We compare the social, private, and conventional Ramsey rates. Assuming a positive growth rate, we find that 1) the social ... -
Publicly Provided Private Goods and Optimal Taxation when Consumers Have Positional Preferences
(2013-03)This paper analyzes optimal differential commodity taxation, together with optimal nonlinear income taxation, in order to deal with positional preferences. It also derives the optimal public provision of private goods both ... -
Do Safety Nets Promote Technology Adoption? Panel data evidence from rural Ethiopia
(2013-02)We use panel data from rural Ethiopia to investigate if participation in a safety net program enhances fertilizer adoption. Using a difference-in-difference estimator and inverse propensity score weighting we find that ... -
State-Variable Public Goods and Social Comparisons over Time
(2013-02)The optimal provision of a state-variable public good, where the global climate is the prime example, is analyzed in a model where people care about their relative consumption. We consider both keeping-up-with-the-Joneses ... -
The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
(2013-02)Previous studies on improved cookstove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to adoption over time. We use ... -
Natural Disasters and Government Turnover
(2013-02)Natural disasters have been linked to both violent conflict and, in some settings, poor economic growth, but do they also drive government parties out of office? We study government turnover in a global sample of more ... -
Are Natural Disasters Good for Economic Growth?
(2013-02)Natural disasters plague the populations of many countries, and the international commu- nity often seeks to alleviate the human suffering by means of humanitarian aid. Do natural disasters also have negative effects on ... -
A Western Reversal since the Neolithic? The long-run impact of early agriculture
(2013-01)While it is widely believed that regions which experienced a transition to Neolithic agriculture early also become institutionally and economically more advanced, many indicators suggest that within the Western agricultural ...