• Individual Carbon Footprint Reduction: Evidence from Pro-environmental Users of a Carbon Calculator 

  Enlund, Jakob; Andersson, David; Carlsson, Fredrik (University of Gothenburg, 2022-05)

  We provide the first estimates of how pro-environmental consumers reduce their total carbon footprint using a carbon calculator that covers all financial transactions. We use data from users of a carbon calculator that ...

• Specification of the Health Production Function and its Behavioral Implications 

  Bolin, Kristian; Caputo, Mikael R. (University of Gothenburg, 2022-05)

  The health production function of the canonical health-capital model is generalized to allow the state of health to affect the total and marginal products of health investment. If the total and marginal products of health ...

• Emotions in Game Theory: Fear, friendliness and hostility 

  Andersson, Lina

  How do emotions affect our interactions with each other? And how do our interactions with each other affect our emotions? As an adult, one makes thousands of decisions each day, decisions often influenced by our emotional ...

• Conflicts of Interest, Ethical Standards, and Competition in Legal Services 

  Bouckaert, Jan; Stennek, Johan (University of Gothenburg, 2022-04)

  We study how the legal profession manages representational conflicts of interest. Such conflicts arise when the same law firm represents clients with adverse interests. They may compromise the legal process, ultimately ...

• Fear and Economic Behavior 

  Andersson, Lina (University of Gothenburg, 2022-02)

  Fear is an important factor in decision-making under risk and uncertainty. Psychology research suggests that fear influences one’s risk attitude and fear may have important consequences for decisions concerning for example ...

• Is there a diminishing value of urban amenities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic? 

  van Vuuren, Aico (University of Gothenburg, 2022-01)

  We investigate whether the Covid-19 pandemic decreased the willingness to pay for urban amenities such as restaurants, cinemas and theaters. We do this by using a hedonic pricing model in combination with a time-gradient ...

• Carpe Diem or Seize your Health? The Economics of Time Preferences, Health, and Education 

  Norrgren, Lisa (2022-01-20)

  Who is more likely to follow medical recommendations, invest in their health and pursue higher degrees of schooling? Behavioral economic theory provides a clear answer to this question: more patient individuals (who discount ...

• Providers and Profiteers: Essays on Profits and Competition in the Provision of Public Services 

  Larsson, Sebastian (2021-12-16)

  Public services, such as education and health care, are provided by both public and private actors. In some countries, such as Sweden, these include for-profit organizations. In systems allowing the users to choose freely, ...

• Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization 

  Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; Mitrut, Andreea (2021-12)

  : Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both ...

• Sustainable food: can food labels make consumers switch to meat substitutes? 

  Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina (2021-12)

  Using a stated preference survey, we investigate whether the introduction of a set of food labels affects consumers´ willingness to make costly shifts from meat products to meat substitutes. We investigate the role of food ...

• Kill your darlings? Do new aid flows help achieve a poverty minimizing allocation of aid 

  Tengstan, Sven; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie (University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)

  In this study, we derive a poverty-minimizing allocation rule, based on which we assess the poverty-efficiency of actual aid allocations, with a special focus on the comparative impact of new donors and new non-aid flows. ...

• Harmful norms: Can social convention theory explain the persistence of female genital cutting in Africa! 

  Congdon Fors, Heather; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Lindskog, Annika (University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)

  This paper investigates the explanatory power of social convention theory for explaining the persistence of female genital cutting (FGC) in a broad sample of African countries. While influential in policy circles, the ...

• All it takes is one: The effect of weakest-link and summation aggregation on public good provision under threshold uncertainty 

  Carlsson, Fredrik; Ek, Claes; Lange, Andreas (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 ...

• Time Preferences, Illness, and Death 

  Norrgren, Lisa (University of Gothenburg, 2021-10)

  This paper investigates the predictive power of time preferences on the risk of early mortality and illness in adulthood. Using a unique Swedish cohort of 12,956 individuals born in 1953, interviewed in 1966, and followed ...

• Evolution of topics in central bank speech communication 

  Hansson, Magnus (University of Gothenburg, 2021-10)

  This paper studies the content of central bank speech communication from 1997 through 2020 and asks the following questions: (i) What global topics do central banks talk about? (ii) How do these topics evolve over time? ...

• CAPABILITY, HEALTH, AND THE LABOUR MARKET – THE RETIREMENT DECISION 

  Bolin, Kristian; Lood, Qarin (University of Gothenburg, 2021-09)

  The time of retirement is analyzed in a theoretical framework taking capability and health into account. Capability if formalized as a stock characteristic which determines the attained amounts of a composite good which ...

• Impacts of Climate Policy and Natural Disasters: Evidence from China 

  Tian, Ruijie (2021-08-17)

  The last decade has seen heightened interest in carbon pricing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions responsible for anthropogenic climate change. Over the past decade, China–responsible for over a quarter of global carbon ...

• Gender Policy and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia 

  Durevall, Dick (University of Gothenburg, 2021-07)

  In 1995, Colombia signed the first legally binding international treaty that criminalizes all forms of violence against women. After this, the government took a number of steps to improve laws and policies, but progress ...

• An App Call a Day Keeps the Patient Away? Substitution of Online and In-Person Doctor Consultations Among Young Adults 

  Ellegård, Lina Maria; Kjellsson, Gustav; Mattisson, Linn (University of Gothenburg, 2021-06, r)

  The emergence of markets for on-demand online physician consultations –direct-to-consumer telemedicine (DCT) – is currently transforming many healthcare settings. DCT may be a cost-effective substitute for ordinary ...

• Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Non-Welfarist Approaches 

  Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Wendner, Ronald (University of Gothenburg, 2021-06)

  This paper analyzes optimal taxation of charitable giving to a public good in a Mirrleesian framework with social comparisons. Leisure separability together with zero transaction costs of giving imply that charitable giving ...

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