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All it takes is one: The effect of weakest-link and summation aggregation on public good provision under threshold uncertainty
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)
We report experimental evidence on the voluntary provision of public goods under threshold uncertainty. By explicitly comparing two prominent technologies, summation and weakest link, we show that uncertainty is particularly ...
Essays on Behavioral Economics and Fisheries: Coordination and Cooperation
(2017-04-25)
Kapitel 1: Samarbete under risk och sann osäkerhet (ambiguity). ...
Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention
(2010-05-18)
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We
evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in
competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and ...
The Poor and Their Neighbors: Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2013-09-24)
This thesis comprises of seven self-contained papers. While the papers are quite distinct
in the questions they address and each is based on its own dataset, there are
some relations between them either in the topic ...
A man´s world? – The impact of a male dominated environment on female leadership
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-11)
Despite the significant growth in female labor force participation and educational attainment over the past decades, few women reach leadership positions. In this study, we explore whether male dominated environments, in ...
The role of beliefs, trust, and risk in contributions to a public good
(2011-01)
This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior ...
Essays on Development and Experimental Economics: Migration, Discrimination and Positional Concerns
(2013-11-22)
Paper 1: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in the Norwegian Housing Market: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity
We test for gender, class, and ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian rental housing market using fake application ...