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Decision-making within the Household: The Role of Autonomy and Differences in Preferences
(2018-03)
We use a field experiment to identify how differences in preferences and autonomy in decision-making result in sub-optimal adoption of technologies that can maximize the welfare of all members of the household. We create ...
Strategic Carbon Taxation and Energy Pricing: The role of Innovation
(2014-04)
This paper investigates the strategic interactions between carbon taxation by a resource-consumers’ coalition and (wellhead) energy pricing by a producers’ cartel under possible innovation in a cheap carbon-free technology ...
Pre-School Education and School Performance The Case of Public Schools in Montevideo
(2010-03-17)
In this paper we try to explain the academic performance of a sample of children starting
their first year at public schools in 1999 in Montevideo, Uruguay. We are mainly
interested in the effect of pre-school education ...
Subjective well-being among preadolescents - Evidence from urban China
(2011-05)
We examine what factors are correlated with subjective well-being among Chinese preadolescents. In particular, we investigate whether preadolescents’ subjective well-being is correlated with their parents’ subjective ...
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 ...
Inequality Aversion and Marginal Income Taxation
(2016-10)
This paper deals with tax policy responses to inequality aversion by examining the first-best
Pareto-efficient marginal tax structure when people are inequality averse. In doing so, we
distinguish between four different ...
Can Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of REDD+ Improve Forest Governance?
(2011-04)
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has recently proposed the application of strategic environmental social assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the preparation of REDD+ ...
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 ...
Compassion and Cost. The Dual Role of Reference Pricing
(2011-05)
Providing health insurance involves a trade-off between the benefits from risk spreading
and the costs due to moral hazard. Focusing on pharmaceuticals consumption, this paper
examines theoretically whether reference ...
Households' income-generating activities and marginal returns to labor in rural Tanzania
(2012-11)
This study uses detailed household-level data to investigate income and activity diversification among households in rural Tanzania. Unlike previous research on diversification, I explicitly evalutate marginal returns ...