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Foreign aid and teenage childbearing
(University of Gothenburg, 2025-10)Teenage childbearing has serious consequences for young mothers, their children, and society. This study estimates the impact of foreign aid projects on teenage fertility in Malawi. We combine georeferenced data on aid ... -
Just the right amount of caution? Remote instruction and student performance in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The impact of politicized and costly climate policies on trust in scientific information and policy support
(Gothenburg University, 2025-08)We investigate how politicization and the financial cost of climate policies influence public trust in scientific information about climate change. We find that citizens' trust in science-based information on climate is ... -
Winning ways: How rank-based incentives shape risk-taking decisions
(2025-04-07)Risk-taking spurred by rank-based contest rewards can have enormous consequences, from breakthrough innovations in research competitions to hedge fund collapses engendered by risky bets aimed at raising league-table rankings. ... -
Reverse Auctions to Procure Negative Emissions at Industrial Scale
(2025-04-28)Many climate solutions including carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies require investments in capital intensive technologies that require large capacity investments and exhibit modest unit costs. Governments seeking ... -
Long-Run Stock Return Distributions: Empirical Inference and Uncertainty
(2025-04-25)We analyze empirical estimation of the distribution of total payoffs for stock investments over very long horizons, such as 30 years. Formal results for recently proposed bootstrap estimators are derived and alternative ... -
Inference on effect size after multiple hypothesis testing
(University of Gothenburg, 2025-04-01)Significant treatment effects are often emphasized when interpreting and summarizing empirical findings in studies that estimate multiple, possibly many, treatment effects. Under this kind of selective reporting, conventional ... -
Location Characteristics of Conditional Selective Confidence Intervals via Polyhedral Methods
(2025-03-20)We examine the location characteristics of a conditional selective confidence interval based on the polyhedral method. This interval is constructed from the distribution of a test statistic conditional upon the event of ... -
The Political Economy of Bread and Circuses: Weather Shocks and Classic Maya Monument Construction
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-11-18)In early states, government elites provided both productivity-enhancing infrastructure, such as irrigation systems, as well as seemingly non-productive monumental architecture like temples and pyramids. The nature of ... -
Female empowerment and male backlash: Experimental evidence from India
(2024-11)Public spending on gender equality and women’s empowerment is rising rapidly in many countries. However, the unintended consequences of women’s empowerment is rarely measured and remains poorly understood. We study the ... -
Can teaching children about the environment influence household behavior? Experiments in Swedish schools
(2024-10-30)In two separate field experiments with Swedish school children aged 10-16, we evaluate variants of an Environmental Education Program (EEP) designed to reduce household waste. We match the addresses of participating students ... -
Geographical Cross-Collateralization, Universal Coverage, and Co-Investment Policy
(2024-09)We argue that geographical cross-collateralization – a firm’s ability to pledge incomes earned in more populated areas as “collateral” for the loans needed to finance in- vestments in less populated areas – plays an ... -
The Impact of PhD Studies on Mental Health—A Longitudinal Population Study
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-09)Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the impact of PhD studies on mental health care uptake using Swedish administrative ... -
Gender Identity and Economic Decision Making
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-09)Economic research on gender gaps in preferences and economic outcomes has focused on variation with respect to sex—a binary classification as either a “man” or “woman.” We validate a novel and simple measure of self-reported ... -
Motherhood and Domestic Violence: A Longitudinal Study Using Population Wide Administrative Data
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-09)Most empirical studies indicate that becoming a mother is an augmenting factor for the perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using rich population-wide hospital records data from Sweden, we conduct a stacked ... -
A Dual Approach to the Derivation of Feedback Demand Functions for Capital-Accumulating Agents
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-05)An optimal control model of a consumer is developed that accounts for the consumption of many goods and services, the accumulation of wealth, a state variable that affects instantaneous preferences and wealth accumulation, ... -
Nudges and Monetary Incentives: A Green Partnership?
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-03)Shifting individual behaviour is an important tool for addressing environmental issues and there is a wide literature evaluating interventions to encourage pro-environmental behaviour. One important but under-researched ... -
How Much Liberty Should We Have? Citizens versus Experts on Regulating Externalities and Internalities
(University of Gothenburg, 2024-01)Based on a tailor-made survey, we find that experts – academics and civil servants – are much more willing than citizens in Sweden to accept liberty-reducing regulations. Moreover, both citizens and experts are more ... -
Child Labour Background, Challenges, and the Role of Research in Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 8.7
(Gothenburg University, 2024-01)The focus of this report is on child labour, which is a main component of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8.7. After providing a brief background on child labour, this report provides an overview of the factors that ... -
Saddlepoint approximations for credit portfolio distributions with applications in equity risk management
(University of Gothenburg, 2023-12)We study saddlepoint approximations to the tail-distribution for credit portfolio losses in continuous time intensity based models under conditional independent homogeneous settings. In such models, conditional on the ...
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