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Not for you! The cost of having a foreign-sounding name in the Swedish private housing market
(2019-10)
Both immigration and a troubling housing deficit have increased rapidly in Sweden over the past 20 years. Today, up to 33 percent of the people living in the largest Swedish cities are immigrants. In this Internet-based ...
Peers, policy, and attitudes as drivers of antibiotic prescribing
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-05)
In this study we investigated how treatment norms about antibiotic use affect a doctor´s decision to prescribe antibiotics. We also investigated the attitudes and behavior of the same physicians as private persons. We find ...
The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
(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 ...
Subjective well-being among preadolescents - Evidence from urban China
(2011-05)
We examine what factors are correlated with subjective well-being among Chinese preadolescents. In particular, we investigate whether preadolescents’ subjective well-being is correlated with their parents’ subjective ...
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth - A Multiple Country Test of an Oath Script
(2010-11)
Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The
general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how
they actually behave. In ...
Difference in Preferences or in Preference Orderings? Comparing Choices of Environmental Bureaucrats, Recreational Anglers, and the Public
(2016-08)
Do Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bureaucrats represent the general public or are they more in line with an interest group? We study preferences for environmental policy using a choice experiment (CE) on three ...
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
(2010-03-29)
By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing
rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not
rank the rule favoring their own ...
What do friends and media tell us? How different information channels affect women’s risk perceptions of age-related female infertility
(2007-03-16)
Based on a survey given to a random sample of Swedish 20-40 year old females, this paper
investigates through which channels women receive information about the general risk levels
of age-related female infertility and ...
Money and Success –Sibling and Birth-Order Effects on Positional Concerns
(2008-04-18)
Survey data is used to investigate how birth order and having siblings affect positional
concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are
the most concerned with relative position, but ...