Browsing by Author "Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg"
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Do business and economics studies erode prosocial values?
Sundemo, Mattias; Löfgren, Åsa (University of Gothenburg, 2022-10) -
Does teaching school children about recycling reduce household waste?
Ek, Claes; Magnus, Söderberg (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 ... -
Drought and Political Trust
Ahlerup, Pelle; Sundström, Aksel; Jagers, Sverker C; Sjöstedt, Martin (University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ... -
Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten (2019-04)We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables ... -
Echoes of Violent Conflict: The Effect of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Hate Crimes in the U.S.
Christensen, Love; Enlund, Jakob (University of Gothenburg, 2021-05)Do social identity ties facilitate the spread of violent conflict? We assess whether the Israeli-Palestinian conflict causes hate crime towards Jews and Muslims in the U.S using daily data between 2000-2016. We measure the ... -
The Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Swedish Shrimp Fishers
Dutto, Davide; Mars, Krister; Eggert, Håkan (University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)This paper explores the effect of the perceived risk of the Swedish people of Covid-19 on daily auctioned shrimp prices from the start of the pandemic to the end of the year 2021. This topic is of interest to see whether ... -
Emissions Trading Schemes and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from China
Tian, Ruijie (2020-11)This paper examines the impact of carbon emissions trading schemes (ETS) on technical change proxied by the number of green patents in the context of the pilot ETS in China. I find a small increase of 0.16 patents per firm ... -
Encouraging adoption of fuel-efficient vehicles – A policy reform evaluation from Ethiopia
Tesemma, Tewodros (University of Gothenburg, 2023-11)The extent of vehicle ownership is increasing in many developing countries. Most of the increase takes place through import of second-hand vehicles that are usually fuel-inefficient and have poor emissions standards. ... -
Entry Regulations and Product Variety in Retail
Maican, Florin; Orth, Matilda (University of Gothenburg, 2021-04)This paper estimates a dynamic model of store adjustments in product variety that considers multiproduct service technology to evaluate the impact of entry regulations on variety and long-run profits in Swedish retail. ... -
Evolution of topics in central bank speech communication
Hansson, Magnus (University of Gothenburg, 2021-10)This paper studies the content of central bank speech communication from 1997 through 2020 and asks the following questions: (i) What global topics do central banks talk about? (ii) How do these topics evolve over time? ... -
Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Political Affiliation, and Group Size
Helénsdotter, Ronja (2019-05)The main objective of this paper is to strengthen the knowledge about the relationship between cooperation and political affiliation. For this purpose, I carry out an incentivized N-person prisoner’s dilemma experiment. I ... -
Fear and Economic Behavior
Andersson, Lina (University of Gothenburg, 2022-02)Fear is an important factor in decision-making under risk and uncertainty. Psychology research suggests that fear influences one’s risk attitude and fear may have important consequences for decisions concerning for example ... -
Food labels: how consumers value moral, environmental, and health aspects of meat consumption
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Nyberg, Erik; Sterner, Thomas (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 ... -
Foreign aid and structural transformation: Micro-level evidence from Uganda
Ahlerup, Pelle (2019-03)History tells us that sustained economic growth, necessary to alleviate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, requires growth in the fundamentals, such as infrastructure and human capital, but also structural transformation, i.e., ... -
Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A field experiment on conditional cooperation and default contributions
Fredrik, Carlsson; Olof, Johansson-Stenman; Pham, Khanh Nam (2011-05)The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. This paper ... -
Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Lampi, Elina; Martinsson, Peter; Yang, Xiaojun (2019-06)Experimental evidence from both the lab and the field shows that women on average have a lower propensity to enter a competitive environment. In this paper, we investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a ... -
Gender Policy and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia
Durevall, Dick (University of Gothenburg, 2021-07)In 1995, Colombia signed the first legally binding international treaty that criminalizes all forms of violence against women. After this, the government took a number of steps to improve laws and policies, but progress ... -
How Much Liberty Should We Have? Citizens versus Experts on Regulating Externalities and Internalities
Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Kataria, Mitesh (University of Gothenburg, 2024-01)Based on a tailor-made survey, we find that experts – academics and civil servants – are much more willing than citizens in Sweden to accept liberty-reducing regulations. Moreover, both citizens and experts are more ... -
Individual Carbon Footprint Reduction: Evidence from Pro-environmental Users of a Carbon Calculator
Enlund, Jakob; Andersson, David; Carlsson, Fredrik (University of Gothenburg, 2022-05)We provide the first estimates of how pro-environmental consumers reduce their total carbon footprint using a carbon calculator that covers all financial transactions. We use data from users of a carbon calculator that ... -
Inequality Aversion, Externalities, and Pareto-Efficient Income taxation
Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof (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 ...