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De la germana al la angla en sveda ekonomiko
(2010-12)The pioneers of Swedish economics at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century were to a large extent influenced by German ideas and German academic life. They went to Germany to study, and their scientific ... -
Does relative income matter for the very poor? - Evidence from rural Ethiopia
(2010-10)We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on ... -
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth - A Multiple Country Test of an Oath Script
(2010-11)Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how they actually behave. In ... -
The Push Towards UPE and the Determinants of the Demand for Education in Tanzania
(2010-10)This paper uses household data to investigate the determinants of demand for education in Tanzania and test whether these have changed during the government's push for Universal Primary Education in the 2000s. We find that ... -
A Fair Share : Burden-Sharing Preferences in the United States and China
(2010-10)Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about ... -
The first time is the hardest: A test of ordering effects in choice experiments
(2010-10)This paper addresses the issue of ordering effects in choice experiments, and in particular how learning processes potentially affect respondents’ stated preferences in a sequence of choice sets. In a case study concerning ... -
General Properties of Expected Demand Functions: Negativity (No Giffen Good) and Homogeneity - A Descriptive Non Utility Maximizing Approach
(2010-09)In this paper we assume that choice of commodities at the individual (household) level is made in the budget set and that the choice can be described by a probability density function. We prove that negativity (()0xExp∂<∂) ... -
Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?
(2010-08)We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous studies, we find that windfall endowments ... -
Are Most People Consequentialists?
(2010-08)Welfare economics relies on consequentialism. Whether a public action is good or bad is then determined by the consequences for people, rather than for example by the extent to which it infringes on others’ rights. Yet, ... -
Veblens Theory of the Leisure Class Revisited: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation
(2010-08)Almost all previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure for status comparisons. Inspired by Veblen (1899), this paper considers a two-type optimal income tax model, ... -
Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
(2010-08)Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on ... -
Wage Effects of Labor Migration with International Capital Mobility
(2010-08)Wage effects of immigration are investigated in a setting with international capital mobility, which eliminates two-thirds of the native wage-effects of immigration. Without international capital mobility, overall gains ... -
Community based health insurance schemes in Africa: The case of Rwanda
(2010-08)Community-based health insurance schemes (Mutuelles) in Rwanda are one of the largest experiments in community based risk-sharing mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa for health related problems. This study examines the impact ... -
Paying the Price of Sweetening Your Donation - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
(2010-07)Using a natural field experiment in a recreational site, a public good almost fully dependent on voluntary donations, we explored the crowding-out effect of gift rewards. First, we investigated whether receiving a map in ... -
Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(2010-07)When facing the opportunity to allocate resources between oneself and others, individuals may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and preferences to act pro-socially. We explore the domain of ... -
Political participation in Africa: Participatory inequalities and the role of resources
(2010-08)The aim of this paper is to examine the role of individual resource endowments for explaining individual and group variation in African political participation. Drawing on new data for more than 27 000 respondents in 20 ... -
Are Men Really More Overconfident than Women? - A Natural Field Experiment on Exam Behavior
(2010-08)This paper reports from a simple natural field experiment based on an eco-nomics exam. Part of the exam consisted of 30 multiple choice questions, where the students obtained 1 point per correct answer while 1 point was ... -
The Law and Economics of International Sex Slavery: Prostitution Laws and Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
(2010-06)International trafficking in humans for sexual exploitation is an economic activity driven by profit motives, and up to four million people are estimated to be exploited by human traffickers each year. Laws regarding ... -
Do Laws Affect Attitudes? - An assessment of the Norwegian prostitution law using longitudinal data
(2010-06)The question of whether laws affect attitudes has inspired scholars across many disciplines, but empirical knowledge is sparse. Using longitudinal survey data from Norway and Sweden, collected before and after the ... -
Targeted Enforcement and Aggregate Emissions With Uniform Emission Taxes
(2010-06)In practice, targeted monitoring seems to be a strategy frequently used by regulators. In this paper, we study the effects of targeted monitoring strategies on the adoption of a new abatement technology and, consequently, ...