Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik by Title
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Fairness, Reciprocity and Inequality: Experimental evidence from South Africa
(2007-05-09)This thesis consists of six papers, related to artifactual field experiments, conducted in South Africa. The main focus of the thesis is the effect of different forms of heterogeneity on cooperation and punishment within ... -
Financial Sector Reforms and Monetary Policy in Zambia
(2004)The dissertation comprises four chapters focusing on issues concerning policy reforms and monetary policy in Zambia. Chapter 1 briefly outlines the theoretical foundations for the reforms undertaken in Zambia since the ... -
Formal and informal regulations: enforcement and compliance
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Four Essays on Interhousehold Transfers and Institutions in Post-Communist Romania
(2008-05-27)This thesis consists of four essays related to different social and economic aspects in post-communist Romania: Paper 1: Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania In many developing and ... -
Four Essays on Technology, Productivity and Environment
(2006)The main subject of this thesis is the relationship between economic growth and environmental effects when the interaction between firms' behaviour and regulations are taken into account. In the first three papers I discuss ... -
Four Essays on the Measurement of Productive Efficiency
(2004)This collection of essays contains two kinds of contributions. All four essays include applications of the existing DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) toolbox on real world datasets. But the main contribution is that they ... -
Gender, Work, and Attitudes
(2011-04-19)Abstract The thesis consists of four self-contained papers. Paper 1: The long term effect of own and spousal parental leave on mothers’ earnings We take advantage of the introduction of a Norwegian parental leave reform ... -
Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
(2013-05-14)Paper I: Intra-household Decisions Making on Intertemporal Choices: An Experimental Study in Rural China. In this paper, we conduct an artefactual field experiment in rural China to investigate ... -
Immigration, Work, and Welfare
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Impacts of Climate Policy and Natural Disasters: Evidence from China
(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 ... -
Incentives and Forest Reform: Evidence from China
(2017-05-24)Chapter I: Forest Devolution Reform in China: A Trigger for Investment or Deforestation? I investigate whether and how the devolution of forestland to households in China triggered investment in forestland, and its effect ... -
Income Generation in the African and Coloured Population: Three essays on the origins of household incomes in South Africa
(2005)The dissertation comprises three empirical analyses focusing on the origins of South African households’ income sources. The income sources are categorized to reflect the households’ varying extent of economic core sector ... -
Individual Preferences, Choices, and Risk Perceptions - Survey Based Evidence
(2008-05-14)Paper 1 investigates how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are the most positional, but that number of siblings increases the ... -
Land Reform, Trust and Natural Resource Management in Africa
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Laws, attitudes and public policy
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Measuring Trust and the Value of Statistical Lives: Evidence from Bangladesh
(2005)This thesis includes five self-contained essays. The first three essays relate to the measurement of trust using both an experimental and a survey approach, and the other two essays relate to the measurement of the value ... -
Mining Booms in Africa and Local Welfare Effects: Labor Markets, Women’s Empowerment and Criminality
(2015-05-08)The role that extractive industries can play in processes of economic development is frequently described as, at best non-existent, or at worst, persistently negative. Extractive industries, while focusing on unearthing ...