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The failed promise of freedom: Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean
(2024-01)Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were ex-slaves’ prospects to improve their socioeconomic status after emancipation? To shed some light on these ... -
Fairness Concerns in Environmental Economics - Do They Really Matter and If So How?
(2009-11-16)Are fairness concerns of relevance to environmental economics and, if so, are they sufficiently structured to improve analysis in this field? On both of these questions, we answer in the affirmative, arguing that people’s ... -
Fairness, Reciprocity and Inequality: Experimental evidence from South Africa
(2007-05-09)This thesis consists of six papers, related to artifactual field experiments, conducted in South Africa. The main focus of the thesis is the effect of different forms of heterogeneity on cooperation and punishment within ... -
‘Fair’ Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
(2017-09)Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To opera- tionalize this approach, preference heterogeneity ... -
Family Background, Education and Earnings in Kenya
(2002)This paper uses data collected in 2000 to first estimate OLS and ordered probit models to measure correlation between family background and workers' education. Then, human capital earnings functions are estimated to examine ... -
Family-Size Effects on Earnings – Definitions Matter
(2009-05-20)Number of siblings has previously been found to adversely affect earned income. However, we still lack understanding of whether nature or nurture drives this effect. We examine in detail the effects of having different ... -
Farm Animal Welfare - testing for market failure
(2003)Our increasingly heterogeneous food is at least partly due to concerns over conventional production of farm livestock. Some of these new products have been demand driven while others are a result of politically decided ... -
Farmers and the domestic iron market
(2004)The Swedish case 1750-1870 in a European context – results from the thesis “Age of iron. The use and consumption of iron and iron products in rural Sweden 1750-1870.” During the agrarian revolution farmers and the rural ... -
Farmers' Preferences for Crop Variety Traits: Lessons for On-Farm Conservation and Technology Adoption
(2009-04-20)Although in-situ conservation is increasingly considered an efficient way of conserving plant genetic resources, little is known about the incentives and constraints that govern conservation decisions among small farm ... -
Fashioning a Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneur?
(2019-10-15)This PhD dissertation explores fashion design graduates as potential knowledge-intensive entrepreneurs through the relationship between knowledge and other resources, and different pathways post-graduation. Explorative ... -
Fast Track Land Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe
(2008-10-21)In the year 2000 the government of Zimbabwe launched the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) as part of its ongoing land reform and resettlement programme, which seeks to address the racially skewed land distribution ... -
Fear and Economic Behavior
(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 ... -
Femmes Fatales in Finance, or Women and the City
(2004)This paper concerns the representations of women working with finances in popular culture. Popular culture retrieves plots from a common repertoire, and in this way transmits ideals and furnishes descriptions of reality, ... -
Field of study and family outcomes
(2018-08)This paper uses administrative data from 16 cohorts of the Dutch population to study the relationship between field of study and family outcomes. We first document considerable variation by field of study for a range of ... -
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
(2015-02)We investigate the efficiency and distributional consequences of a corruptionfighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam ... -
Fika, fiske och föreningsliv
(2007)Föreliggande rapport ingår i projektet Den mångdimensionella matkonsumenten. Värderingar och beteenden hos konsumenter 55+. Projektet är ett institutions- och fakultets-övergripande samarbete mellan forskare från etnologi, ... -
Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance: Essays on the contracting role of accounting and the effects of monitoring mechanisms
(2015-02-05)The governance and transparency in firms constitute the major concerns in today’s business. Contracts are fundamental aspects of corporations and in order to be efficient they should be designed and monitored using high ... -
Financial Sector Reforms and Monetary Policy in Zambia
(2004)The dissertation comprises four chapters focusing on issues concerning policy reforms and monetary policy in Zambia. Chapter 1 briefly outlines the theoretical foundations for the reforms undertaken in Zambia since the ...