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The Political Economy of Bread and Circuses: Weather Shocks and Classic Maya Monument Construction
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-11-18)In early states, government elites provided both productivity-enhancing infrastructure, such as irrigation systems, as well as seemingly non-productive monumental architecture like temples and pyramids. The nature of ... -
Female empowerment and male backlash: Experimental evidence from India
(2024-11)Public spending on gender equality and women’s empowerment is rising rapidly in many countries. However, the unintended consequences of women’s empowerment is rarely measured and remains poorly understood. We study the ... -
Can teaching children about the environment influence household behavior? Experiments in Swedish schools
(2024-10-30)In two separate field experiments with Swedish school children aged 10-16, we evaluate variants of an Environmental Education Program (EEP) designed to reduce household waste. We match the addresses of participating students ... -
Geographical Cross-Collateralization, Universal Coverage, and Co-Investment Policy
(2024-09)We argue that geographical cross-collateralization – a firm’s ability to pledge incomes earned in more populated areas as “collateral” for the loans needed to finance in- vestments in less populated areas – plays an ... -
The Impact of PhD Studies on Mental Health—A Longitudinal Population Study
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-09)Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the impact of PhD studies on mental health care uptake using Swedish administrative ... -
Gender Identity and Economic Decision Making
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-09)Economic research on gender gaps in preferences and economic outcomes has focused on variation with respect to sex—a binary classification as either a “man” or “woman.” We validate a novel and simple measure of self-reported ... -
Motherhood and Domestic Violence: A Longitudinal Study Using Population Wide Administrative Data
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-09)Most empirical studies indicate that becoming a mother is an augmenting factor for the perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using rich population-wide hospital records data from Sweden, we conduct a stacked ... -
A Dual Approach to the Derivation of Feedback Demand Functions for Capital-Accumulating Agents
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-05)An optimal control model of a consumer is developed that accounts for the consumption of many goods and services, the accumulation of wealth, a state variable that affects instantaneous preferences and wealth accumulation, ... -
Esperanto – drömmen om ett världsspråk
(Dialogos Förlag, 2013)När Ludwik Zamenhof växte upp i den mångkulturella staden Białystok på 1860-talet led han av att se hur ryssar, polacker, tyskar och judar bråkade med varandra. Han trodde att huvudskälet till motsättningarna var att de ... -
Court-Ordered Care
(2024-04-29)This dissertation focuses on one of the most vulnerable groups in society: children and youths who interact with the child protection system. In the first chapter, I study the effects of court-ordered removal of children ... -
Vad är BNP?
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Ekonomin i EU
(Studentlitteratur, 2017)I boken beskrivs de stora dragen i de olika EU-ländernas ekonomi, huvudsakligen med hjälp av nationalräkenskapsdata. Ett bisyfte är att klargöra innebörden i BNP och andra nationalräkenskapsbegrepp och visa hur de hänger samman. -
Adam Smith
(Studentlitteratur, 2021)Den skotske filosofen Adam Smith (1723–1790) brukar betraktas som nationalekonomins fader med en laissez-faire-attityd till marknaden. Här behandlas dels hans verk, dels hans omväxlande liv från uppväxten i Kircaldy via ... -
Nudges and Monetary Incentives: A Green Partnership?
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-03)Shifting individual behaviour is an important tool for addressing environmental issues and there is a wide literature evaluating interventions to encourage pro-environmental behaviour. One important but under-researched ... -
Telling Talent: Essays on Discrimination and Promotion Contests
(2024-03-11)Many of our interactions are shaped by the beliefs we hold about the people we interact with. Because of this, we often try to gather information about others. This information shapes our beliefs, which then inform the ... -
How Much Liberty Should We Have? Citizens versus Experts on Regulating Externalities and Internalities
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-01)Based on a tailor-made survey, we find that experts – academics and civil servants – are much more willing than citizens in Sweden to accept liberty-reducing regulations. Moreover, both citizens and experts are more ... -
Child Labour Background, Challenges, and the Role of Research in Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 8.7
(Gothenburg University, 2024-01)The focus of this report is on child labour, which is a main component of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8.7. After providing a brief background on child labour, this report provides an overview of the factors that ... -
Saddlepoint approximations for credit portfolio distributions with applications in equity risk management
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-12)We study saddlepoint approximations to the tail-distribution for credit portfolio losses in continuous time intensity based models under conditional independent homogeneous settings. In such models, conditional on the ... -
Encouraging adoption of fuel-efficient vehicles – A policy reform evaluation from Ethiopia
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-11)The extent of vehicle ownership is increasing in many developing countries. Most of the increase takes place through import of second-hand vehicles that are usually fuel-inefficient and have poor emissions standards. ... -
Optimal Taxation and Other-Regarding Preferences
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-10)The present paper analyzes optimal redistributive income taxation in a Mirrleesian framework extended with other-regarding preferences at the individual level. We start by developing a general model where the other-regarding ...
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