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Convergence rate of estimators of clustered panel models with misclassification
(2020-08)We study kmeans clustering estimation of panel data models with a latent group structure and N units and T time periods under long panel asymptotics. We show that the group-speci c coe cients can be estimated at the ... -
Closing wells; fossil exploration and abandonment in the energy transition
(2020-08)Despite ambitious climate goals and already substantial stocks of developed fossil energy reserves, development of new fossil energy reserves continues to be high. This raises concerns, as it reinforces the fossil industry’s ... -
Serial-correlation-robust power calculation for the analysis-of-covariance estimator
(2020-06)Ex-ante power calculation is an essential part of the toolkit of experimental economics. In panel experiments, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is more efficient than differencein- differences and is often preferred. The ... -
THE INDIVIDUAL WELFARE COSTS OF STAY-AT-HOME POLICIES
(2020-06)This paper reports the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate the private welfare costs of stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is conducted on a large and representative sample of the ... -
The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
(2020-05)We examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed over the past decade in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate ... -
Inequality Aversion, Externalities, and Pareto-Efficient Income taxation
(2020-05)Abstract This paper analyzes Pareto-efficient marginal income taxation taking into account externalities induced through individual inequality aversion, meaning that people have preferences for equality. In doing so, we ... -
Food labels: how consumers value moral, environmental, and health aspects of meat consumption
(2020-04)Policy changes could improve health and environmental outcomes by addressing the many externalities and internalities related to food consumption. Using a stated preference approach, we investigate to what extent consumers ... -
Does teaching school children about recycling reduce household waste?
(2020-02)Reduced waste generation is a prioritized environmental policy objective in the EU as well as worldwide. We perform a randomized controlled trial in Sweden with school children aged 10-16 to evaluate an intervention ... -
Pharaoh´s Cage: Environmental Circumscription and Appropriability in Early State Development
(2019-11)What explains the origins and survival of the first states around five thousand years ago? In this research, we focus on the role of productivity shocks for early state development in a single region: ancient Egypt. We ... -
Son Preferences and Education Inequalities in India
(2019-10)We investigate the impact of son preferences in India on gender inequalities in education. We distinguish the impact of preferential treatment of boys from the impact of gender-biased fertility strategies (gender-specific ... -
The Impact of the First Professional Police Forces on Crime
(2019-10)This paper evaluates how the introduction of professional police forces affected crime using two natural experiments in history: the 1829 formation of the London Metropolitan Police (the first police force ever tasked ... -
The Persistence of the Criminal Justice Gender Gap: Evidence from 200 Years of Judicial Decisions
(2019-10)We document persistent gender gaps favoring females in jury convictions and judge sentences in nearly 200 years of London trials, which are unexplained by case characteristics. We find that three sharp changes in punishment ... -
Political Economy of Listing of Substances of Very High Concern in the European REACH Regulation
(2019-10)The Candidate List of the European Union regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals—known as REACH— gives advanced information to industry and other stakeholders about substances ... -
Not for you! The cost of having a foreign-sounding name in the Swedish private housing market
(2019-10)Both immigration and a troubling housing deficit have increased rapidly in Sweden over the past 20 years. Today, up to 33 percent of the people living in the largest Swedish cities are immigrants. In this Internet-based ... -
Past and present outage costs – A follow-up study of households’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages
(2019-10)Households’ demand for electricity continues to increase. This trend per se should indicate increased disutility from power outages. On the other hand, batteries and other back-up systems have been improved and the frequency ... -
Charity as Income Redistribution: A Model with Optimal Taxation, Status, and Social Stigma
(2019-09)Our framework integrates (i) public and private redistribution, (ii) the warm glow of giving and stigma of receiving charitable donations, and (iii) status concerns emanating from social comparisons with respect to charitable ... -
The informational value of environmental taxes
(2019-09)We propose informational spillovers as a new rationale for the use of multiple policy instruments to mitigate a single externality. We investigate the design of a pollution standard when the firms’ abatement costs are unknown ... -
Standing in Others’ Shoes: Empathy and Positional Behavior
(2019-09)Studies show that people are concerned with other people’s consumption position in a varying degree with respect to the type of goods consumed and individual characteristics. Using both survey experiments and a large survey ... -
Non-Life-Threatening Ailments and Rational Patience
(2019-08)The time at which a rational patient might choose an elective medical procedure for a non-life-threatening ailment is contemplated. The resulting model is purposely uncomplicated but general, and accounts for several basic ... -
Child Human Capital – The Importance of Parenting Style
(2019-08)Investments in the human capital of children during their upbringing determine the opportunities available in adulthood. Recognizing that the parent-child interaction plays a significant role in the accumulation of child ...