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The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap Revisited: The Role of Emotions and Moral Satisfaction
(2011-04)While many earlier studies have found that people’s maximum willingness to pay for having a good is often substantially lower than their minimum willingness to accept not having it, more recent experimental evidence suggests ... -
Does a Diversification Motive Influence Children’s School Entry in the Ethiopian Highlands?
(2011-03)Household-level diversification of human capital investments is investigated. A simple model is developed, followed by an empirical analysis using 2000-2007 data from the rural Amhara region of Ethiopia. Diversification ... -
The Effect of Older Siblings’ Literacy on School Entry and Primary School Progress in the Ethiopian Highlands
(2011-03)The effects of older sisters’ and brothers’ literacy on the annual school entry and primary school grade progress probabilities of boys and girls are estimated using within-household variation. Older siblings’ literacy has ... -
Do Microloan Officers Want to Lend to the Less Advantaged? Evidence from a Choice Experiment.
(2011-02)The mission of microfinance is generally perceived as compensation for the failure of the mainstream financial institutions to deliver access to finance to the poor. Microloan officers have significant influence on microloans ... -
Common ground for effort sharing? Preferred principles for distributing climate mitigation efforts
(2011-03)This paper fills a gap in the current academic and policy literature concerning how parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change find common ground when distributing commitments and responsibilities ... -
Bioeconomic model of spatial fishery management in developing countries
(2010-02)Fishers in developing countries do not have the resources to acquire advanced technologies to exploit offshore fish stocks. As a result, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea requires countries to sign ... -
Ecotourism and the Development of Indigenous Communities: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(2011-02)A large part of the literature analyzing the links between biodiversity conservation and community development assumes that nature-based tourism managed by indigenous communities will result not only in conservation of ... -
Naïve Beliefs and the Multiplicity of Social Norms
(2011-02)In a signalling model of conformity, we demonstrate that naïve observers, those that take actions at face value, constrain the set of actions that can possibly be social norms. With rational observers many actions can ... -
Doing good with other people’s money: A charitable giving experiment with students in environmental sciences and economics
(2011-01)We augment a standard dictator game to investigate how preferences for an environmental project relate to willingness to limit others’ choices. We explore this issue by distinguishing three student groups: economists, ... -
Decoupling: Is there a Separate Contribution from Environmental Taxation
(2011-01)Decoupling is a crucial topic in the analysis of sustainable development. Without decoupling, continuing and increasing economic growth in developed and developing countries would come with ever increasing environmental ... -
Animal Welfare and Social Decisions
(2011-01)This paper analyzes the standard welfare economics assumption of anthropocentric welfarism, i.e., that only human well-being counts intrinsically. Alternatives where animal welfare matters intrinsically are explored ... -
Self-Image and Valuation of Moral Goods: Stated versus Real Willingness to Pay
(2011-01)Hypothetical bias in stated-preference methods appears sometimes to be very large, and other times non-existent. This is here largely explained by a model where people derive utility from a positive self-image associated ... -
Does Environmental Economics Produce Aeroplanes Without Engines? - On the Need for an Environmental Social Science
(2011-01)In this paper we first critically review conventional environmental economics. We conclude that the standard theory offers too narrow a perspective for many real world problems and that many theories are not empirically ... -
The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good
(2011-01)This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior ... -
Institution building with limited resources: Establishing a supreme audit institution in Rwanda
(2011-01)This study is about institution building with limited resources. Through a case study of the establishment of a supreme audit institution (SAI) in Rwanda, we examine the tensions between institutional first-best benchmarks ... -
Natural Resource Management: Challenges and Policy Options
(2011-01)Much of the improvement in living standards in developed and developing countries alike is attributable to the exploitation of nonrenewable and renewable resources. The problem is to know when the exploitation occurs at ... -
Quantifying Ethnic Cleansing: An Application to Darfur
(2010-12)This paper has two objectives: First, to develop and critically examine various measures of ethnic cleansing on the basis of a review of the existing literature. Second, to apply the suggested measures to a unique sample ... -
Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden
(2010-11)We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase ... -
Inflation Dynamics and Food Prices in Ethiopia
(2010-11)During the global food crisis, Ethiopia experienced an unprecedented increase in inflation, among the highest in Africa. Using monthly data over the past decade, we estimate models of inflation to identify the importance ... -
Maximizing the Wealth of a Nation: A Paradigm for Political Economy
(2010-12)Politics and economics are inextricably linked. Government establishes and enforces the rules of the game for the economy, thereby determining not only how much wealth is created, but also how wealth is distributed across ...