Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik by Title
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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 ... -
A non-stationary perspective on the european and swedish business cycle
(2007-05-25)Business cycles, the ups and downs observed somewhat simultaneously in numerous macroeconomic variables in an economy and often measured using real GDP, are important and, despite much economic research, still incom- pletely ... -
On Institutions, Economic Growth and the Environment
(2003)This thesis analyzes economic growth and the environment by including institutional aspects and specific innovation mechanisms. It contains an introduction and five separate studies. Paper 1: The Effect of Democracy on ... -
On Monetary Integration and Macroeconomic Policy
(2003)This thesis contains one general introduction and three separate papers. The papers are fairly heterogeneous with respect to the topics analysed, as well as to the methodologies used. Some common themes, though, are monetary ... -
On the Political Economy of Municipality Break-Ups
(2003)This thesis deals with politico-economic aspects of municipality break-ups. It consists of an introduction and three self-contained papers. Paper I: The Break-up of Municipalities – Voting Behavior in Local Referenda This ... -
Parallel Trade, Reference Pricing and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Market: Theory and Evidence
(2011-05-03)Paper I. Reference Pricing: Making Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals Work This paper shows that parallel trade makes pharmaceutical manufacturers reduce their prices in the home (importing) country more when it is combined ... -
Post-Harvest Losses, Intimate Partner Violence and Food Security in Tanzania
(2017-05-02)High levels of food losses occurring after harvesting offset the effort to increase food production. This situation increases the risk of food insecurity and low incomes among smallholder farmers. But, my project finds ...