Browsing by Author "Yang, Xiaojun"
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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 ... -
Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
Yang, Xiaojun (2013-05-14)Paper I: Intra-household Decisions Making on Intertemporal Choices: An Experimental Study in Rural China. In this paper, we conduct an artefactual field experiment in rural China to investigate ... -
Intertemporal choice shifts in households: Do they occur and are they good?
Carlsson, Fredrik; Yang, Xiaojun (2013-06)We examine whether and to what extent joint choices are more or less patient and time-consistent than individual choices in households. We use data from an artefactual field experiment where both individual and joint time ... -
Intra-household decisions making on intertemporal choices: An experimental study in rural China
Yang, Xiaojun; Carlsson, Fredrik (2012-09)In this paper, we conduct a high stake experiment in rural China to investigate the determinants of individual and joint decisions regarding intertemporal choices, and estimate the relative influence of spouses on the joint ... -
Long-run effects of family policies: An experimental study of the Chinese one-child policy
Carlsson, Fredrik; Lampi, Elina; Martinsson, Peter; Tu, Qin; Yang, Xiaojun (2018-05)We present lab-in-the-field experimental evidence of the effects of the Chinese one-child policy on individuals’ preferences and behavior as adults. The experiments were conducted in three different provinces because the ... -
The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Qin, Ping; Sterner, Thomas; Yang, Xiaojun (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 ...