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Gender, risk preferences and willingness to compete in a random sample of the Swedish population
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-08)
Experimental results from student or other non-representative convenience samples often suggest that men, on average, are more risk-taking and competitive than women. Here we explore whether these gender preference gaps ...
Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi
(2013-08)
The impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has received attention recently,
since changes in population structure can impact on future economic development. We
analyze the effect of AIDS on actual and ...
Do people avoid opportunities to donate? A natural field experiment on recycling and charitable giving
(2012-09)
We use a natural field experiment to investigate the hypothesis that generosity is partly involuntary, by examining whether individuals tend to avoid opportunities to act generously. In Sweden, new recycling machines for ...
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, ...
Because of you I did not give up - How peers affect perseverance
(2016-06)
Various empirical papers have shown that peers affect productivity and behavior in the workplace. However, the mechanisms through which peers influence each other are still largely
unknown. In this laboratory experiment ...
Spending time together? Effects on the retirement decision from partner’s labour market status
(2015-03)
In this paper we study retirement decisions and more specifically, the influence of a partner’s labour market status on this decision. We use information from three waves of the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in ...
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, ...
Institution building with limited resources: Establishing a supreme audit institution in Rwanda
(2011-01)
This study is about institution building with limited resources. Through a case study of
the establishment of a supreme audit institution (SAI) in Rwanda, we examine the tensions
between institutional first-best benchmarks ...
Unequal Property Rights: A study of land right inequalities in Rwanda
(2011-06)
The aim of the present paper is to examine the existence and patterns of systematic within-country inequalities in effective land rights in Rwanda. The results of empirical estimations drawing on data on the land tenure ...
Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
(2014-04)
This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fl uc-
tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-
Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 ...