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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 ...
Dealing with ignored attributes in choice experiments on valuation of Sweden’s environmental quality objectives
(2008-02-20)
In this paper we use follow-up questions to investigate whether attributes have been ignored in a
choice experiment on environmental goods. This information is subsequently used in the estimation of
the model by restricting ...
Measuring marginal values of noise disturbance from air traffic: Does the time of the day matter?
(2004)
This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden, by using a choice experiment. When estimating ...
Do EPA administrators recommend environmental policies that citizens want?
(2008-04-14)
We investigate whether Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator
preferences regarding improvements in environmental quality differ from citizen preferences.
The scope and significance of the possible ...
Age-related risk of female infertility: A comparison between perceived personal and general risks
(2006)
Based on a survey of a random sample of Swedish females aged 20-40 this paper
investigates: (1) whether women have correct perception of the age-related risk of female
infertility, (2) whether the perceptions of the ...
Individual Preferences, Choices, and Risk Perceptions - Survey Based Evidence
(2008-05-14)
Paper 1 investigates 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
positional, but that number of siblings increases the ...
Gender and birth-order differences in time and risk preferences and decisions
(2009-10-05)
We study how gender, birth order, and number of siblings are related to stated time and risk
preferences and to real-life decisions. We use survey data covering about 2,300 individuals
and find that time and risk preferences ...
Who visits the museums? A comparison between stated preferences and observed effects of entrance fees
(2008-04-09)
This study investigates whether the introduction of an entrance fee affects visitor composition at
a state funded museum in Sweden. While entrance to the museum was still free, we conducted a survey to collect information ...
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 ...