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Are Natural Disasters Good for Economic Growth?
(2013-02)
Natural disasters plague the populations of many countries, and the international commu-
nity often seeks to alleviate the human suffering by means of humanitarian aid. Do natural disasters also have negative effects on ...
The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
(2013-02)
Previous studies on improved cookstove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to adoption over time. We use ...
800 ord till Rolf Solli
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2013-05)
I samband med Rolf Sollis 60-årsdag har vi bjudit in våra kollegor till att delta i en mindre festskrift till vår vän och kollega. Rolf har som vi alla vet många strängar på sin lyra: undervisning, forskning, prefektskap, ...
Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi
(2013-08)
The impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has received attention recently,
since changes in population structure can impact on future economic development. We
analyze the effect of AIDS on actual and ...
Essays on Environmental Taxation and Climate Policy
(2013-08-23)
Paper I: Greenhouse gas taxes on animal food products - rationale, tax scheme and climate mitigation effects
Agriculture is responsible for 25–30% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but has thus far ...
Exploring the Performativity Turn in Management Studies
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2013-09)
One of the contemporary “turns” in management studies is the “performativity” turn. In this paper, we present a genealogy of the concept of performativity as it has been used in management and organization studies (MOS). ...
Relative Standing and Life-Satisfaction: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter?
(2013-12)
Unlike most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries, we use a fixed effects regression on three rounds of rich panel data to investigate the impact of relative standing on life satisfaction of respondents ...
Nothing New under the Sun: Essays on the Economic History of Intellectual Property Rights in Music
(2013-04-30)
This thesis consists of an introductory chapter, five separate articles and an article in Swedish which functions as summary. The introductory chapter provides a general
background to the economic history of intellectual ...
Corruption along ethnic lines: A study of individual corruption experiences in 17 African countries
(2013-08)
While a growing literature relates macro variation in corruption to ethnic divisions, existing studies have paid little attention to the possible existence of systematic micro variation in corruption along ethnic lines. ...