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Earthquakes and Civil War
(2009-10-05)Natural disasters claim thousands of lives each year and can be a heavy burden for already vulnerable societies. Are natural disasters also a cause of violent con- flict? While most studies based on systematic empirical ... -
East African Community: Pre-conditions for an Effective Monetary Union
(2011-12)Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda signed the Treaty for the establishment of the East African Community (EAC) in 1999, which entered into force in July 2000. In 2007 it was signed by Burundi and Rwanda. According to the Treaty, ... -
Easy come, easy go - The role of windfall money in lab and field experiments
(2009-08-11)A growing number of experimental studies focus on the differences between the lab and the field. Important in this issue is the role of windfall money. By conducting a dictator game, where the recipient is a charity ... -
Echoes of Violent Conflict: The Effect of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Hate Crimes in the U.S.
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-05)Do social identity ties facilitate the spread of violent conflict? We assess whether the Israeli-Palestinian conflict causes hate crime towards Jews and Muslims in the U.S using daily data between 2000-2016. We measure the ... -
Economic Determinants of Public Opinion. About Joining the EMU: The Case of Sweden
(2002)A potential Swedish membership in the third stage of the EMU (the currency union) will be determined in a referendum. The opinion polls preceding this referendum show strong variability in the Swedish public opinion ... -
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 ... -
Economic Freedom and Growth:Decomposing the Effects
(2001)Most studies of the relation between economic freedom and growth of GDP have found a positive relation. One problem in this area is the choice of economic freedom measure. A single measure does notreflect the complex ... -
Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
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Economic Performance of Turkish Immigrant Men in the European Labour-Market: Evidence from Sweden
(2006)This paper uses eleven waves of panel-data to analyse the earnings assimilation of first-generation Turkish immigrant men in Sweden. Employment-probabilities and earnings are estimated in a fixed-effects sample selection ... -
The Economics of Credence Goods: On the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation and Competition
(2009-03-02)Credence goods markets are characterized by asymmetric information between sellers and consumers that may give rise to inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment ... -
Economics of Soil Conservation Adoption in High-Rainfall Areas of the Ethiopian Highlands
(2009-11-30)This study measures the impact of fanya juu bunds (an important soil and water conservation technology and the most popular type of contour bund in east Africa) on the value of crop production in a high-rainfall area in ... -
Economics vs. Physical-based Metrics for Relative Greenhouse Gas Valuations
(2009-06-02)A range of alternatives to the Global Warming Potential (GWP) have been suggested in the scientific literature. One of these alternative metrics that has received significant attention is the cost-effective relative valuation ... -
Ecotourism and the Development of Indigenous Communities: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(2011-02)A large part of the literature analyzing the links between biodiversity conservation and community development assumes that nature-based tourism managed by indigenous communities will result not only in conservation of ... -
Education and HIV incidence among young women: causation or selection?
(2015-11)Several studies report that schooling protects against HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the effect of secondary school attendance on the probability of HIV incidence among young women aged 15-24, ... -
Education, norms, and gender equality
(2017-06)Despite major developments in gender equality, differences between men and women’s economic and social behaviors remain. Several studies demonstrate the importance of gender norms in explaining a significant part of the ... -
The effect of risk, ambiguity, and coordination on farmers’ adaptation to climate change: A framed field experiment
(2009-09-21)The risk of loses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers ... -
The Effects of an Environmental Policy on Consumers: Lessons from the Chinese Plastic Bag Regulation
(2010-06-03)To reduce plastic bag litter, China introduced a nationwide regulation requiring all retailers to charge for plastic shopping bags on June 1, 2008. By using the policy implementation as a natural experiment and collecting ... -
Effects of Economic Freedom on Growth and the Environment - Implications for Cross-Country Analysis
(2003)The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effects of specific economic freedom categories on both economic growth and the environment, and present some important considerations for cross-country regressions. First, ... -
Effects of Global Fisheries on Developing Countries Possibilities for Income and Threat of Depletion
(2009-11-30)This study deals with fisheries and trade, focusing on developing countries. Fish is globally traded, and for many developing countries, it is an important net export good. In most of these countries, fisheries are often ... -
Effects of informal eldercare on female labor supply in different European welfare states
(2009-04-06)Using advanced panel data methods on ECHP (European Community Household Panel) data, female labor force participation at both the intensive and extensive margin is found to be negatively associated with informal caregiving ...