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Which type of policy instrument do citizens and experts prefer? A choice experiment on Swedish marine and water policy
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-11)In the choice between alternative environmental policy instruments, economists tend to favor policies capable of attaining cost-efficiency, but other considerations may be important to stakeholders. We perform a choice ... -
Who Are the Trustworthy, We Think?
(2006)In a representative Swedish sample people were asked to judge the relative extent that different groups of people are considered trustworthy in several dimensions, including their political views and reading habits. A ... -
Who is willing to stay sick for the collective? – Individual characteristics, experience, and trust
(2019-05)This paper deals with the collective action dilemma of antibiotic resistance. Despite the collective threat posed by antibiotic resistance, there are limited incentives for individuals to consider the contribution of their ... -
Who visits the museums? A comparison between stated preferences and observed effects of entrance fees
(2008-04-09)This study investigates whether the introduction of an entrance fee affects visitor composition at a state funded museum in Sweden. While entrance to the museum was still free, we conducted a survey to collect information ... -
Why (field) experiments on unethical behavior are important: Comparing stated and revealed behavior
(2016-06)Understanding unethical behavior is essential to many phenomena in the real world. We carry out a field experiment in a unique setting that varies the levels of reciprocity and guilt in an ethical decision. A survey more ... -
Why Are Market Economies Politically Stable? A Theory of Capitalist Cohesion
(2007-12-14)The present paper documents that political stability is positively associated with the extent of domestic trade. In explaining this reg- ularity, we provide a model where political cohesion is linked to the emergence ... -
WHY ARE THE SICKNESS ABSENCES SO LONG IN SWEDEN
(2004)Using a sample of 2,789 Swedish residents on working age, this paper analyzes long-term absences from work due to sickness. The database contains all compensated sickness spells in the period January 1986 to December 1991. ... -
Why Do Environmental Taxes Work Better in Developed Countries?
(2011-12)We compare of the performance of emission taxes between Colombia and Sweden in an experimental setting where subjects are regulated through environmental taxes and had to decide on emission levels, compliance behavior, and ... -
Why do you want lower taxes? Preferences regarding municipal income tax rates
(2009-02-23)The factors shaping people’s preferences for municipal labour income tax rates in Sweden were assessed, using survey data. The tax rate actually faced by the respondents had explanatory power for their attitudes towards ... -
Why Does Technology Advance in Cycles?
(2001)Long-run technological progress is cyclical because drastic innovations that introduce new technological opportunity are only profitable at times when repeated incremental innovation has nearly exhausted existing technological ... -
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 ... -
Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, I: A Theory of Domino Effects
Numerous empirical studies show that unions reduce wage differences. But surprisingly few attempts have been made to understand why. Swedish unions reveal that the reason is both ideological and strategic. Relying on ... -
Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, II: The Relation between Solidarity and Unity
(2015-09)This paper demonstrates that the decisions by workers of different skills to unite to form industry unions is closely linked to the egalitarian wage policies that such unions pursue. These results help interpret the stylized ... -
Wicksell versus Brisman: A Dispute on Capital between Generations
(2003)After Wicksell in 1911 had published the second Swedish edition of his Lectures on Political Economy, a debate began in the Ekonomisk Tidskrift between Wicksell and his opponent Sven Brisman. The controversy was mainly ... -
Willingness to Pay among Swedish Households to Avoid Power Outages - A Random Parameter Tobit Model Approach
(2009-03-17)Using a contingent valuation survey, we elicit Swedish households’ willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid power outages. In the study respondents are asked to state their WTP for avoiding nine different types of outages. We ... -
Windfall Gains, Political Economy, and Economic Development
(2006)Natural resource rents and foreign aid have the character of windfall gains that affect economic outcomes both directly and indirectly. Several studies have shown that the indirect effect typically works via institutions ... -
Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?
(2010-08)We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous studies, we find that windfall endowments ... -
Within-Families Inequalities in Human Capital Accumulation in India
(2018-12)We investigate within-family inequalities in human capital accumulation in India. We consider both indicators of the child's current stock of human capital and of investment into their continued human capital accumulation, ... -
Within-Family Inequalities in Human Capital Accumulation in India: Birth Order and Gender Effects
(2017-05)In this paper we investigate birth order and gender effects on the development of children’s human capital in India. We investigate both indicators of the child’s current stock of human capital and of investment into their ...