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Essays on Culture, Institutions, and Economic Development
(2020-05-18)
Culture and institutions are important to understand individual behaviors and economic development. In this thesis, I study the origins of cultural divergence across societies, the emergence of private property rights, and ...
Shocks, Remittances and Household Consumption A Dynamic System GMM Analysis
(2028-02)
We use a dynamic system GMM regression on ve rounds of panel data to estimate the
impact of international remittances on consumption of urban Ethiopian households, who spend
more than 70% of their consumption budget on ...
Commercialization Done Differently: How Swedish university incubators facilitate the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms
(2020-12-11)
This PhD thesis investigates how university incubators impact the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) firms in Sweden, which is interesting due to its unusual institutional regime for commercializing ...
The Sustainability and Competitiveness of European Short-Sea Shipping
(2020-03-27)
Several factors could improve the environmental performance of European short-sea shipping (SSS) and enhance its competitiveness, and in this thesis, some of those factors are
explored. The purpose of this thesis is to ...
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 ...
Att organisera integration av nyanlända och andra utrikesfödda personer på den svenska arbetsmarknaden – från ”flyktingkrisen” till COVID-19 pandemin
(University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs universitet, 2021)
Hur organiseras integration av nyanlända och andra utrikesfödda personer
på den svenska arbetsmarknaden? 2018 presenterade vi en rapport där vi
presenterade en genomgång av samtida initiativ för arbetsmarknadsintegration
av ...
Does teaching school children about recycling reduce household waste?
(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 ...
THE INDIVIDUAL WELFARE COSTS OF STAY-AT-HOME POLICIES
(2020-06)
This paper reports the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate the private welfare costs of stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is conducted on a large and representative sample of the ...
CAPABILITY, HEALTH, AND THE LABOUR MARKET – THE RETIREMENT DECISION
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-09)
The time of retirement is analyzed in a theoretical framework taking capability and health into account. Capability if formalized as a stock characteristic which determines the attained amounts of a composite good which ...
Kill your darlings? Do new aid flows help achieve a poverty minimizing allocation of aid
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)
In this study, we derive a poverty-minimizing allocation rule, based on which we assess the poverty-efficiency of actual aid allocations, with a special focus on the comparative impact of new donors and new non-aid flows. ...