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Working Papers

2019

1. Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants
   RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin)

2011

2. Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
   Working Papers, School of Economics, University College Dublin View citations (13)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2011) View citations (11)
   Working Papers, Geary Institute, University College Dublin (2011) View citations (42)
   LISER Working Paper Series, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) (2011) View citations (11)

2010

3. Attitudes Toward Uncertainty Among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (11)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2009) View citations (5)
4. Does Relative Position Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future
5. Does relative income matter for the very poor? - Evidence from rural Ethiopia
   Working Papers in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2008) View citations (10)
   See also Journal Article Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural Ethiopia, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2011) View citations (57) (2011)

2009

6. Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (9)
7. Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (3)
8. Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? - The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status
   Working Papers in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics View citations (23)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2009) View citations (12)
9. The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
   IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (11)
10. The Wooldridge Method for the Initial Values Problem Is Simple: What About Performance?
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (31)

2007

11. Dynamics of Employment- and Earnings-Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden, 1990-2000
    Working Papers in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics View citations (1)
12. Local Unemployment and the Earnings-Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Sweden: Evidence from Longitudinal Data, 1990-2000
    Working Papers in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics View citations (1)
13. Monte Carlo Investigation of the Initial Values Problem in Censored Dynamic Random-Effects Panel Data Models
    Working Papers in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

2006

14. Economic Performance of Turkish Immigrant Men in the European Labour-Market: Evidence from Sweden
    Working Papers in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics
15. Second Order Approximation for the Average Marginal Effect of Heckman's Two Step Procedure
    Working Papers in Economics, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2011

1. Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural Ethiopia
   Economics Letters, 2011, 110, (3), 213-215 View citations (57)
   See also Working Paper Does relative income matter for the very poor? - Evidence from rural Ethiopia, Working Papers in Economics (2010) (2010)

2008

2. Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sample selection models
   Applied Economics, 2008, 40, (24), 3101-3110 View citations (2)