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Cost of Power Outages for Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference Study
(2018-05)Having a reliable supply of electricity is essential for the operation of any firm. In most developing countries, however, electricity supply is highly unreliable. In this study, we estimate the cost of power outages for ... -
Measuring Trust in Institutions
(2018-05)In empirical studies, survey questions are typically used to measure trust; trust games are also used to measure interpersonal trust. In this paper, we measure trust in different institutions by using both trust games and ... -
Multiple Misbehaving: Loss Averse and Inattentive to Monetary Incentives
(2018-04)We study what determines taxpayers’ deduction behavior when filing tax returns. Preliminary deficits might be viewed as losses assuming zero preliminary balance as reference point. Swedish taxpayers may escape these losses ... -
Do Markets Trump Politics? Evidence from Fossil Market Reactions to the Paris Agreement and the U.S. Election
(2018-03)The Paris Agreement was acclaimed as a milestone for climate negotiations. It has also been criticized – as too soft by environmentalists and too constraining by the current U.S. administration, which has decided to leave. ... -
Confidence Set for Group Membership
(2018-03)We develop new procedures to quantify the statistical uncertainty from sorting units in panel data into groups using data-driven clustering algorithms. In our setting, each unit belongs to one of a finite number of latent ... -
Value of commuting time saving in Beijing: a stated preference study
(2018-03)We estimate the value of travel time savings with a discrete choice model using data from choice experiments on both car drivers and public transport users in Beijing. We find that, compared with public transport users, ... -
Mindfulness and Stress - a Randomised Experiment
(2018-03)We conduct a randomised controlled trial of an online course in mindfulness. Previous research has found evidence that mindfulness reduces stress; however, few studies have been carried out on non-clinical populations that ... -
Decision-making within the Household: The Role of Autonomy and Differences in Preferences
(2018-03)We use a field experiment to identify how differences in preferences and autonomy in decision-making result in sub-optimal adoption of technologies that can maximize the welfare of all members of the household. We create ... -
Passive Learning and Incentivized Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial in India
(2018-03)In order to understand the extent of the information barrier to adoption of a household technology, we designed a randomized controlled trial on willingness to pay (WTP) for solar lanterns in India. We gave high quality ... -
Roman Roads to Prosperity: Persistence and Non-Persistence of Public Goods Provision
(2018-02)How persistent is public goods provision in a comparative perspective? We explore the link between infrastructure investments made during antiquity and the presence of infrastructure today, as well as the link between early ... -
Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents?
(2018-02)We exploit admission lotteries to estimate the payoffs to the dentistry study in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 ... -
The impact of the announcement of temporary building sites for refugees on house prices in Gothenburg
(2018-02)We evaluate the price development of apartments in neighborhoods surrounding temporary housing for refugees using the unpredicted announcement of three building sites, targeting refugees, in Gothenburg. More in particular, ... -
Environmental investment decisions: experimental evidence of team versus individual decision making
(2018-01)We study experimentally how investment decisions are affected by equally stringent but different policy regime treatments and how differences depend on whether decisions are made individually or in groups. In our experiment, ... -
Emissions Trading Subject to Kantian Preferences
(2018-01)We study a cap-and-trade market equilibrium where different regions belonging to an emissions trading regime have different ambitions about the stringency of the cap. Specifically, we introduce a segment of consumers with ... -
Do consumers choose to stay ignorant? The role of information in the purchase of ethically certified products
(2018-01)The paper analyzes how consumers access information about ethical certificates and how access to this information influences consumers’ purchasing decisions. Using an experimental market game and letting consumers choose ... -
Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules
(2018-01)We consider identification and estimation of nonseparable sample selection models with censored selection rules. We employ a control function approach and discuss different objects of interest based on (1) local effects ... -
Confidence and Career Choices: An Experiment
(2018-01)Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about whether such beliefs causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in ... -
The Origins of Cultural Divergence: Evidence from a Developing Country
(2017-12)Cultural norms diverge substantially across societies, often even within the same country. In the present paper, we study the voluntary settlement hypoth- esis, proposing that individualistic people tend to self-select ... -
Do Gender Preference Gaps Impact Policy Outcomes?
(2017-11)A large body of evidence documents systematic gender differences in a variety of important economic preferences, such as risk-taking, competition and pro-sociality. One potential implication of this literature is that ... -
Nudging to reduce meat consumption: Immediate and persistent effects of an intervention at a university restaurant
(2017-11)Changing dietary habits to reduce the consumption of meat is considered to have great potential to mitigate food-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To test if nudging can increase the consumption of vegetarian food, ...