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The Changing Structure of Swedish Foreign Aid
(2016-03)The study investigates how the composition and character of aid of Swedish aid has changed over time, and what effects these changes have had for the potential to realize key aspects of the Paris agenda such as ownership, ... -
The hidden costs of nudging: Experimental evidence from reminders in fundraising
(2016-03)We document the hidden costs of one of the most policy-relevant nudges, reminders. Sending reminders, while proven effective in facilitating behavior change, may come at a cost for both senders and receivers. Using a large ... -
How are you? How's it going? What's up? What's happening? Nudging people to tell us how they really are
(2016-03)We investigate a novel approach to reduce measurement error in subjective well-being (SWB) data. Using a between-subject design, half of the subjects are asked to promise to answer the survey questions truthfully in an ... -
Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
(2016-03)This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment ... -
Frustration and Anger in Games: A First Empirical Test of the Theory
(2016-02)Anger can be a strong behavioral force, with important consequences for human interaction. For example, angry individuals may become hostile in their dealings with others, and this has strategic consequences. Battigalli, ... -
A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
(2016-02)This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act ... -
The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime and the Labor Market
(2016-02)This paper uses detailed individual register data to identify the causal effect of mandatory peacetime military conscription in Sweden on the lives of young men born in the 1970s and 80s. Because draftees are positively ... -
Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
(2016-01)To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of ... -
The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation
(2016-01)In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a ... -
Redistribution through Charity and Optimal Taxation when People are Concerned with Social Status
(2016-01)This paper deals with tax policy responses to charitable giving based on a model of optimal redistributive income taxation. The major contribution is the simultaneous treatment of (i) warm-glow and stigma effects of ... -
Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption
(2016-01)Much evidence suggests that people are concerned with their relative consumption, i.e., their own consumption relative to that of others. Yet, conspicuous consumption and the corresponding social costs have so far been ... -
Parental Investments in Child Health – the importance of paternalistic altruism, child egoism and short-sightedness
(2015-12)Parent and child interaction is an important determinant of child health. Typically, parents are more forward-looking than their children and, hence, care about investments in human capital to a larger extent. In this paper ... -
Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic
(2015-12)This paper examines the influence of social norms on obesity. We develop a concept of social norm related to social distortion in weight perception developed through shared experiences in a common social environment with ... -
Education and HIV incidence among young women: causation or selection?
(2015-11)Several studies report that schooling protects against HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the effect of secondary school attendance on the probability of HIV incidence among young women aged 15-24, ... -
Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on On-Line Advice
(2015-11)Helping job seekers to identify suitable jobs is a key challenge for policy makers. We develop and evaluate experimentally a novel tool that provides tailored advice at low cost and thereby redesigns the process through ... -
Strategic Delegation and Non-cooperative International Permit Markets
(2015-11)We analyze a principal-agent relationship in the context of international climate policy in a two-country framework. First, the principals of both countries decide whether to link their domestic emission permit markets to ... -
Resource Windfalls and Local Government Behavior: Evidence from a Policy Reform in Indonesia
(2015-11)We analyze the impact of a natural experiment in Indonesia that allocated certain district governments with a windfall revenue from natural resource production. Our identification is based on a comparison between bordering ... -
Modelling Household Cooking Fuel Choice: a Panel Multinomial Logit Approach
(2015-10)We use three rounds of a rich panel data set to investigate the determinants of household cooking fuel choice and energy transition in urban Ethiopia. We observe that the expected energy transition did not occur following ... -
International Remittances and Private Inter-household Transfers: Exploring the Links
(2015-10)We investigate the effect of remittances from migrated family members on informal inter- household transfers - an issue that has received limited attention in the literature. Using rich panel data from urban Ethiopia, ... -
Improving Welfare through Climate-friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification
(2015-10)We use rich survey data to investigate the impact of a climate-friendly rice farming method known as the system of rice intensification (SRI) on the welfare of rain-dependent small-holder farmers in Tanzania. SRI reduces ...