Browsing Working papers by Author "Johannesson, Magnus"

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    • Crowding Out in Blood Donation: Was Titmuss Right? 

      Johannesson, Magnus; Mellström, Carl (2005)
      In his seminal 1970 book, The Gift Relationship, Richard Titmuss argued that monetary compensation for donating blood might crowd out the supply of blood donors. To test this claim we carry out a field experiment with ...

    • The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women 

      Parslow, Elle; Ranehill, Eva; Zethraeus, Niklas; Blomberg, Liselott; von Schoultz, Bo; Lindén Hirschberg, Angelica; Johannesson, Magnus; Dreber, Anna (University of Gothenburg, 2019-02)
      Many studies report on the association between 2D:4D, a putative marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, and economic preferences. However, most of these studies have limited sample sizes and test multiple hypotheses ...