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Long-run effects of family policies: An experimental study of the Chinese one-child policy
(2018-05)
We present lab-in-the-field experimental evidence of the effects of the Chinese one-child policy on individuals’ preferences and behavior as adults. The experiments were conducted in three different provinces because the ...
Caseworker's discretion and the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs
(2018-07)
In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to different policy regimes ...
Optimal Investment in Health when Lifetime is Stochastic, or, Rational Agents do not Often Follow Health Agency Recommendations
(2018-08)
A health-capital model is contemplated which accounts for the consumption of many goods, a
stock of health and investment in it, as well as an agent’s random lifetime and accumulation of wealth. It is shown that if an ...
Passive Learning and Incentivized Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial in India
(2018-03)
In order to understand the extent of the information barrier to adoption of a household technology, we designed a randomized controlled trial on willingness to pay (WTP) for solar lanterns in India. We gave high quality ...
Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants
(2018-08)
How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint return-migration and saving ...
Environmental investment decisions: experimental evidence of team versus individual decision making
(2018-01)
We study experimentally how investment decisions are affected by equally stringent but different policy regime treatments and how differences depend on whether decisions are made individually or in groups. In our experiment, ...
Företagsledares arbete och tillväxt
(2018-03-27)
The overall aim of this study is to contribute to knowledge about the relationship between what entrepreneurs do and firm growth. This aim have been translated into three research questions: (1) What characterizes the work ...
Everybody’s a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes
(2018-06)
Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change political attitudes. ...
Instrumental variables based on twin births are by definition not valid
(2018-04)
Instrumental variables based on twin births are a well-known and widespread method
to find exogenous variation in the number of children when studying the effect on
siblings or parents. This paper argues that there are ...
Transition to Agriculture and First State Presence: A Global Analysis
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-09)
It has often been observed that the emergence of states in a region is typically preceded by an earlier transition to agricultural production. Using new data on the date of first state emergence within contemporary countries, ...