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Fairness Concerns in Environmental Economics - Do They Really Matter and If So How?
(2009-11-16)Are fairness concerns of relevance to environmental economics and, if so, are they sufficiently structured to improve analysis in this field? On both of these questions, we answer in the affirmative, arguing that people’s ... -
‘Fair’ Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
(2017-09)Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To opera- tionalize this approach, preference heterogeneity ... -
Family Background, Education and Earnings in Kenya
(2002)This paper uses data collected in 2000 to first estimate OLS and ordered probit models to measure correlation between family background and workers' education. Then, human capital earnings functions are estimated to examine ... -
Family-Size Effects on Earnings – Definitions Matter
(2009-05-20)Number of siblings has previously been found to adversely affect earned income. However, we still lack understanding of whether nature or nurture drives this effect. We examine in detail the effects of having different ... -
Farm Animal Welfare - testing for market failure
(2003)Our increasingly heterogeneous food is at least partly due to concerns over conventional production of farm livestock. Some of these new products have been demand driven while others are a result of politically decided ... -
Farmers' Preferences for Crop Variety Traits: Lessons for On-Farm Conservation and Technology Adoption
(2009-04-20)Although in-situ conservation is increasingly considered an efficient way of conserving plant genetic resources, little is known about the incentives and constraints that govern conservation decisions among small farm ... -
Fast Track Land Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe
(2008-10-21)In the year 2000 the government of Zimbabwe launched the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) as part of its ongoing land reform and resettlement programme, which seeks to address the racially skewed land distribution ... -
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 ... -
Field of study and family outcomes
(2018-08)This paper uses administrative data from 16 cohorts of the Dutch population to study the relationship between field of study and family outcomes. We first document considerable variation by field of study for a range of ... -
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
(2015-02)We investigate the efficiency and distributional consequences of a corruptionfighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam ... -
Firm Productivity and Exports: Evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing
(2008-04-30)This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. ... -
FIRST EXITS FROM THE SWEDISH LABOR MARKET DUE TO DISABILITY
(2001)The number of disability exits has been increasing in recent years, raising questions both about the well being of affected individuals, and about how to finance the related disability pensions. Using a longitudinal ... -
Fiscal Capacity and Government Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2011-06)Historical evidence from the developed world suggests that the expansion of the mod- ern states’ fiscal capacity (i. e. its ability to tax citizens) eventually led to more democratic and less corrupt governments. Since ... -
Fiscal Federalism, Interjurisdictional Externalities and Overlapping Policies
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-09)In this paper, we analyze the effects of the interaction between national and local policies designed to reduce an environmental externality that causes environmental damages both nationally and locally. We formulate a ... -
Fisheries Economics and 20 years with Marine Resource Economics: A Citation Analysis
(2007-09-05)This paper reviews the impact of articles published in the Marine Resource Economics and within the field of fisheries economics in general over the period 1954-2004. Specific attention is given to the years 1984-2004, ... -
Food labels: how consumers value moral, environmental, and health aspects of meat consumption
(2020-04)Policy changes could improve health and environmental outcomes by addressing the many externalities and internalities related to food consumption. Using a stated preference approach, we investigate to what extent consumers ... -
Foreign aid and structural transformation: Micro-level evidence from Uganda
(2019-03)History tells us that sustained economic growth, necessary to alleviate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, requires growth in the fundamentals, such as infrastructure and human capital, but also structural transformation, i.e., ... -
Forestland Reform in China: What do the Farmers Want? A Choice Experiment on Farmers’ Property Rights Preferences
(2009-06-30)Various decentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector. However, a key question often ignored by researchers and policy makers is what farmers really want from reform. This paper ... -
Framing and Minimum Levels in Public Good Provision
(2016-04)Using a laboratory experiment in the field, we examine how the choice architecture of framing a social dilemma – give to or take from a public good – interacts with a policy intervention that enforces a minimum contribution ... -
From Boom to Bust and Back Again: A dynamic analysis of IT services
(2012-09)Aggregate shocks in demand such as the burst of the 2001 dot-com bubble affect firms’ behavior and, therefore, the market structure. This paper proposes a fully dynamic oligopoly model to evaluate the impact of aggregate ...