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Sustainable Economic Growth: A Critical Assessment of SDG 8.1
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)In this report, we focus on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 8.1, stipulating that countries should pursue real GDP per capita growth rates that are in accordance with their national circumstances and that ... -
Locus of Control and Economic Decision-Making: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)We study psychological impediments that make it difficult to change be- haviour. In particular, we evaluate the impact of a randomised psychological intervention designed to target locus of control{an individual's belief ... -
Drought and Political Trust
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-04)Droughts can affect people’s political trust positively, through rallying effects, or negatively, through blame attribution. We examine how drought conditions affect political trust in the context of Africa. We link ... -
Changing local customs: Long-run impacts of the earliest campaigns against female genital cutting
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-03)This paper investigates the long-run impacts of Christian missionary expansion on the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in sub-Saharan Africa. The empirical analysis draws on historical data on the locations of early ... -
Aid and child health: Local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-11)Abstract: Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, ... -
Why known unknowns may be better than knowns, and how that matters for the evolution of happiness
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)Rayo and Becker (2007) model happiness as an imperfect measurement tool: It provides a partial ordering of alternative courses of actions. In this note, decisionmakers use their inability to rank two actions, to infer ... -
Leading by example? EU citizens’ preferences for climate leadership
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)For global problems like climate change, strong international agreements are difficult to achieve. Alternative solutions might therefore be necessary. In this paper, we study the support for climate leadership in seven ... -
Isolating nature from nurture: Does exposure to business and economics education make students more selfinterested?
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)Does exposure to business and economics education make students more self-interested and less interested in a career that would contribute to a better society? Using a panel dataset of more than 900 individuals from a ... -
Sustainability preferences and financial decision-making among mutual fund investors
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)In our representative sample of Swedish mutual fund investors, those who are sustainability motivated perceive investment choices more difficult than other investors. Of those who are sustainability motivated, 38 percent ... -
The Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Swedish Shrimp Fishers
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)This paper explores the effect of the perceived risk of the Swedish people of Covid-19 on daily auctioned shrimp prices from the start of the pandemic to the end of the year 2021. This topic is of interest to see whether ... -
Sexual objectification of women in media and the gender wage gap: Does exposure to objectifying pictures lower the reservation wage?
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)Using an online experiment, we investigate the influence of sexual objectification in media on economic decision making. In the experiment, subjects are asked to evaluate advertisements in women’s magazines. In the treatment ... -
Saddlepoint approximations for credit portfolios with stochastic recoveries
(University of Gothenburg, 2022-08)We study saddlepoint approximations to the tail-distribution for different credit portfolio losses in continuous time intensity based models which stochastic recoveries, under conditional independent homogeneous settings. ... -
Individual Carbon Footprint Reduction: Evidence from Pro-environmental Users of a Carbon Calculator
(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
(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 ... -
Conflicts of Interest, Ethical Standards, and Competition in Legal Services
(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
(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?
(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 ... -
Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
(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?
(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
(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. ...
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