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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 ...
Not for you! The cost of having a foreign-sounding name in the Swedish private housing market
(2019-10)
Both immigration and a troubling housing deficit have increased rapidly in Sweden over the past 20 years. Today, up to 33 percent of the people living in the largest Swedish cities are immigrants. In this Internet-based ...
Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
(2019-06)
We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting
parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and
post-birth components. We use three ...
Chinese aid and local ethnic identification
(2019-04)
Recent empirical evidence suggests that Chinese development finance may be particularly prone to elite capture and patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, ...
Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Political Affiliation, and Group Size
(2019-05)
The main objective of this paper is to strengthen the knowledge about the relationship between cooperation and political affiliation. For this purpose, I carry out an incentivized N-person prisoner’s dilemma experiment. I ...
Political Economy of Listing of Substances of Very High Concern in the European REACH Regulation
(2019-10)
The Candidate List of the European Union regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals—known as REACH— gives advanced information to industry and other stakeholders about substances ...
To educate a woman and to educate a man: Gender-specific sexual behaviour and HIV responses to an education reform in Botswana
(2019-05)
Education has been suggested as a ‘vaccine’ against HIV infection, but there is not much causal evidence behind this claim. Moreover, the few studies that exist on the impact of education on HIV infection and related ...
Pharaoh´s Cage: Environmental Circumscription and Appropriability in Early State Development
(2019-11)
What explains the origins and survival of the first states around five thousand years ago? In this research, we focus on the role of productivity shocks for early state development in a single region: ancient Egypt. We ...
Can the environment be an inferior good? A theory with context-dependent substitutability and needs
(2019-04)
Theoretical models often assume the environment to be a normal good, irrespective of one’s income. However, a priori, nothing prohibits an environmental good from being normal for some individuals and inferior for others. ...
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., ...