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Shutdown Threats, Firm Fragmentation and the Skill Premium
(2007-09-12)This essay investigates the interaction between demand uncertainty and non-competitive labor markets where firm owners have the option to shut down and relocate. Workers cannot find new jobs instantly and therefore accept ... -
Sida and innovative finance: The case of loan guarantee schemes
(2019-02)Sida is exploiting loan guarantee schemes to leverage finance from the private sector in partner countries. This paper is a literature review of the rationale for and experiences of this type of schemes, focusing on Small ... -
SMOKERS DECISIONS TO QUIT SMOKING
(2001)We investigate the effectiveness of different smoking policies on the decision to quit smoking using a choice experiment on a sample of habitual smokers. Our results indicate that restricted availability, increased ... -
Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement
(2009-10-19)Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in ... -
Social Capital vs Institutions in the Growth Process
(2007-03-08)Is social capital always important for economic growth? A number of recent micro studies suggest that interpersonal trust and social capital will have its greatest impact on economic performance when court institutions ... -
Social Comparisons and Optimal Taxation in a Small Open Economy
(2016-05)Almost all previous studies on optimal taxation and status consumption are based on closed model-economies. This paper analyzes how international capital mobility – which may constrain the use of capital income taxation ... -
Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic
(2015-12)This paper examines the influence of social norms on obesity. We develop a concept of social norm related to social distortion in weight perception developed through shared experiences in a common social environment with ... -
Social divisions and institutions: Assessing institutional parameter variation
(2008-02-01)This paper investigates the hypothesis that the association between property rights institutions and income is weaker in countries with high social divisions. It argues that social divisions should have a negative effect ... -
Social Globalization and Child Labor
(2012-05)In recent years, a growing number of authors have turned their focus to the question of why children work. While much of the research focuses on household level factors, macroeconomic factors have gained increasing attention. ... -
Social Identity and Role Models
(2016-09)We present a lab-in-the-field experiment and surveys of marginalised Roma children in Slovakia to examine whether reminding Roma of their ethnicity reduces their performance in a cognitive task. Research on social identity ... -
Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents
(2013-03. U)A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the ... -
Social Norms and Information Diffusion in Water-saving Programs:Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Colombia
(2016-04)This paper investigates direct and spillover effects of a social information campaign aimed at encouraging residential water savings in Colombia. The campaign was organized as a randomized field experiment, consisting of ... -
Social preferences are stable over long periods of time
(2012-04)We measure people’s prosocial behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor time contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, and in terms of voluntary money contributions in a public good game, using the ... -
Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden
(2010-11)We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of Charness and Rabin (2002). We find that difference aversion decreases while social-welfare preferences increase ... -
Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
(2010-06)Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants ... -
Soil Conservation and Small-Scale Food Production in Highland Ethiopia A Stochastic Metafrontier Approach
(2009-11-30)This study adopts the stochastic metafrontier approach to investigate the role of soil conservation in small-scale highland agriculture in Ethiopia. Plot-level stochastic frontiers and metafrontier technology-gap ratios ... -
Soil Properties and Soil Conservation Investments in Agricultural Production - a Case study of Kenya’s Central Highlands
(2009-01-27)This paper integrates traditional economic variables, soil properties and variables on soil conservation technologies in order to estimate agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s central highlands. The ... -
Son Preferences and Education Inequalities in India
(2019-10)We investigate the impact of son preferences in India on gender inequalities in education. We distinguish the impact of preferential treatment of boys from the impact of gender-biased fertility strategies (gender-specific ... -
Spatial Policies and Land Use Patterns: Optimal and market allocations
(2013-05)Environmental conditions and pollution levels have been proven to affect firms and households location decisions in various ways. In this paper, we study the opti- mal and equilibrium distribution of industrial and ... -
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 ...