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The Impact of Reproductive and Birth Technologies on Health, Fertility and Labor Outcomes
(2017-12-19)
Access to reproductive health including care during pregnancy and childbirth is paramount for mothers, children and families worldwide. Despite the rapid use of reproductive and birth technologies, multiple questions ...
Essays on Environmental Taxation and Climate Policy
(2013-08-23)
Paper I: Greenhouse gas taxes on animal food products - rationale, tax scheme and climate mitigation effects
Agriculture is responsible for 25–30% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but has thus far ...
Essays on Natural Resource Economics
(2011-05-13)
Corporate Governance and the Design of Board of Directors
(2015-09-11)
Paper 1: “The Effects of Board Independence on Busy Directors and Firm Value: Evidence from Regulatory Changes in Sweden.”
I use an exogenous change to the rules of corporate governance for Swedish firms in 2005 to ...
Essays on Environmental and Behavioral Economics
(2019-04-24)
Predictability in Equity Markets: Estimation and Inference
(2019-05-08)
The thesis consists of three chapters dealing with predictability in equity markets. The first chapter analyses predictive regressions in a predictive system framework, where the predictor is an imperfect proxy for the ...
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 ...
Dynamic Investment Models, Employment Generation and Productivity – Evidence from Swedish Data
(2012-09-28)
Paper 1: Effects of shocks and uncertainty on capital and labor in a real options model with variable capacity utilization
This study analyzes the effects of uncertainty on investment, capital use and labor demand, in ...
Essays on Field Experiments and Impact Evaluation
(2015-12-09)
Paper 1: Improving Welfare Through Climate-Friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification We use rich survey data to investigate the economic impact of a climate-friendly rice farming method known as ...
Essays on behavioral economics: Nudges, food consumption and procedural fairness
(2017-09-22)
Decreasing meat consumption holds significant potential for the reduction of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and the mitigation of climate change. Fostering behavioral change to reduce climate emissions related to ...