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Social preferences are stable over long periods of time
(2012-04)We measure people’s prosocial behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor time contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, and in terms of voluntary money contributions in a public good game, using the ... -
Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate and Local Air Pollution: Policies in Sweden
(2012-04)In this paper, we explore the synergies and tradeoffs between abatement of global and local pollution. We built a unique dataset of Swedish heat and power plants with detailed boiler-level data 2001-2009 on not only ... -
Reducing Global Warming and Adapting to Climate Change: The Potential of Organic Agriculture
(2012-04)Climate change mitigation is urgent, and adaptation to climate change is crucial, particularly in agriculture, where food security is at stake. Agriculture, currently responsible for 20-30% of global greenhouse gas emissions ... -
The Gender Gap in African Political Participation: Individual and contextual determinants
(2012-03)The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors underlying the gender gap in African electoral and inter-electoral political participation. Drawing on new data covering over 27,000 respondents from 246 regions in 20 emerging ... -
The Effects of Gender Quotas in Latin American National Elections
(2012-02)This study investigates the effects of gender quotas in national elections on political participation, public policy, and corruption in Latin America. We are able to replicate the findings from previous research that women ... -
Multi-product firms, product mix changes and upgrading: Evidence from China's state-owned forest areas
(2012-02)Product selection matters for a firm’s productivity and long-run growth. Recent theoretical and empirical studies indicate that an important margin of adjustment to policy reforms is the reallocation of output within firms ... -
Motivated Agents with Career Concerns: Signalling skills and organizational involvement
(2012-01)The paper studies the interaction between two kinds of incentives: career concerns and intrinsic motivation emerging from agent’s alignment with organization’s objectives or another source of organizational involve- ment. ... -
Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
(2012-01)We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger ... -
How Category Reporting Can Improve Fundraising
(2011-12)Many fundraisers report donations using categories such as more than £ 1000, more than £ 10,000 etc. One naturally wonders how we should categorise donations and whether category reporting can raise more funds than simple ... -
Why Do Environmental Taxes Work Better in Developed Countries?
(2011-12)We compare of the performance of emission taxes between Colombia and Sweden in an experimental setting where subjects are regulated through environmental taxes and had to decide on emission levels, compliance behavior, and ... -
East African Community: Pre-conditions for an Effective Monetary Union
(2011-12)Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda signed the Treaty for the establishment of the East African Community (EAC) in 1999, which entered into force in July 2000. In 2007 it was signed by Burundi and Rwanda. According to the Treaty, ... -
Group Decision Making Under Risk: An experiment with student couples
(2011-12)In an experiment, we study risk-taking of cohabitating student couples, finding that couples’ decisions are closer to risk-neutrality than single partners’ decisions. This finding is similar to earlier experiments with ... -
Loss evasion and tax aversion
(2011-11)The objective of this paper is to study if taxpayers behave in a loss averse manner when filing their tax returns. This is important for tax design but also for understanding human behavior in general. The predictions of ... -
Should we tax or let firms trade emissions? An experimental analysis with policy implications for developing countries
(2011-09)In this paper we use laboratory experiments to test the theoretical predictions derived by Villegas-Palacio and Coria (2010) about the effects of the interaction between technology adoption and incomplete enforcement. They ... -
Prices vs Quantities with Multiple Pollutants
(2011-09)We examine the choice of policy instrument price, quantity, or a mix of the two when two pollutants are regulated and firms’ abatement costs are private information. A key parameter that affects this choice is the technological ... -
Naïve and Capricious: Stumbling into the ring of self-control conflict
(2011-08)We model self-control conflict as a stochastic struggle of an agent against a visceral influence, which impels the agent to act sub-optimally. The agent holds costly pre-commitment technology to avoid the conflict altogether ... -
Taxes, Wages and Working Hours
(2011-08)This paper presents estimates of individuals’ responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to 2007 produce significant ... -
Reference-dependent behaviour of paua (abalone) divers in New Zealand
(2011-08)We study dynamic labour supply using data on paua (abalone) divers in New Zealand. The divers face stable, flat prices per kilogram after each catch, but experience transitory wage changes due to varying weather and water ... -
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Child Health Outcomes and Abandonment. Evidence from Romania
(2011-08)We use household survey data and a unique census of institutionalized children to analyze the impact of abortion legalization in Romania. We exploit the lift of the abortion ban in December 1989, when communist dictator ...