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Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from China
(2019-06)
Experimental evidence from both the lab and the field shows that women on average have a lower propensity to enter a competitive environment. In this paper, we investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a ...
Food labels: how consumers value moral, environmental, and health aspects of meat consumption
(2020-04)
Policy changes could improve health and environmental outcomes by addressing the many externalities and internalities related to food consumption. Using a stated preference approach, we investigate to what extent consumers ...
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 ...
Past and present outage costs – A follow-up study of households’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages
(2019-10)
Households’ demand for electricity continues to increase. This trend per se should indicate increased disutility from power outages. On the other hand, batteries and other back-up systems have been improved and the frequency ...
Sexual objectification of women in media and the gender wage gap: Does exposure to objectifying pictures lower the reservation wage?
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)
Using an online experiment, we investigate the influence of sexual objectification in media on economic decision making. In the experiment, subjects are asked to evaluate advertisements in women’s magazines. In the treatment ...