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How wage announcements affect job search - a field experiment
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-08)
We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much ...
Gender, risk preferences and willingness to compete in a random sample of the Swedish population
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-08)
Experimental results from student or other non-representative convenience samples often suggest that men, on average, are more risk-taking and competitive than women. Here we explore whether these gender preference gaps ...
Licensing Games
(2018-12-14)
Patents are legal instruments that protect ideas, and the rise of a knowledge-based society was inevitably accompanied with their increased economic importance. As a result of this growth, patented technology became an ...
Within-Families Inequalities in Human Capital Accumulation in India
(2018-12)
We investigate within-family inequalities in human capital accumulation in India. We consider both indicators of the child's current stock of human capital and of investment into their continued human capital accumulation, ...
Decision-making within the Household: The Role of Autonomy and Differences in Preferences
(2018-03)
We use a field experiment to identify how differences in preferences and autonomy in decision-making result in sub-optimal adoption of technologies that can maximize the welfare of all members of the household. We create ...
Do Markets Trump Politics? Evidence from Fossil Market Reactions to the Paris Agreement and the U.S. Election
(2018-03)
The Paris Agreement was acclaimed as a milestone for climate negotiations. It has also been criticized – as too soft by environmentalists and too constraining by the current U.S. administration, which has decided to leave. ...
R2K - Demokratisk och rättsstatlig mognad
(2018-11)
Sydafrika skiljer sig dramatiskt från Sverige i åtminstone två olika avgörande avseenden; det är en betydligt starkare rättsstat, åtminstone på domstolsnivån, och det är en levande demokrati, ungefär som Hamnarbetarförbundet ...
Robotization - Then and Now
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2018-04-20)
Karel Čapek, the Czech author, coined the term “robot” (from “robota”, labor in Slavic languages; “robotnik” means “worker”) in 1920. In his play, R.U.R. - Rossum Universal Robots, artificial humans made of synthetic organic ...
Mindfulness and Stress - a Randomised Experiment
(2018-03)
We conduct a randomised controlled trial of an online course in mindfulness. Previous research has found evidence that mindfulness reduces stress; however, few studies have been carried out on non-clinical populations that ...
Nonseparable Sample Selection Models with Censored Selection Rules
(2018-01)
We consider identification and estimation of nonseparable sample selection models with censored selection rules. We employ a control function approach and discuss different objects of interest based on (1) local effects ...