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Essays on Environmental and Behavioral Economics
(2023-10-03)
As developing countries strive to attain rapid economic growth and thereby reduce poverty, the ensuing climate change crisis is making it necessary for these countries to achieve the targeted economic growth through ...
Sustainable Consumption and Prosocial Actions
(2023-06-21)
The influence of a single individual's actions on many societal issues is often small, but individual efforts can have a significant impact when combined. Several potential policies could attempt to encourage these actions, ...
Choices among Doctors, Students and Primary Care Providers: Empirical Evidence from Sweden
(2023-02-21)
This thesis consists of three independent chapters. The setting for the first and the third chapter is the primary care sector in Sweden. The second chapter focuses on the consequences of a reform implemented in the Swedish ...
Locus of Control and Economic Decision-Making: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)
We study psychological impediments that make it difficult to change be-
haviour. In particular, we evaluate the impact of a randomised psychological
intervention designed to target locus of control{an individual's belief ...
Drought and Political Trust
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)
Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ...
Changing local customs: Long-run impacts of the earliest campaigns against female genital cutting
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-03)
This paper investigates the long-run impacts of Christian missionary expansion on the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical analysis draws on historical data on the locations of early ...
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914
(2023-07)
In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological
choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing
an incredible wealth of data for a full population in ...
Corporate whistleblowing systems in the digital era: Determinants, effects, and disclosure
(2023-10-05)
Whistleblowing is a practice of communication between two parties that involves
negative or sensitive information regarding potential misconduct in an organization.
Due to the nature of the information involved in ...
Wetland Mitigation Banking in the United States
(2023-08-24)
In this thesis, I study market-based biodiversity conservation policies in the context of the
wetland compensatory mitigation program under the US Clean Water Act. The program
requires developers to compensate for adverse ...
Sustainable Economic Growth: A Critical Assessment of SDG 8.1
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)
In this report, we focus on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 8.1, stipulating that countries should pursue real GDP per capita growth rates that are in accordance with their national circumstances and that ...