Working Papers in Economics

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652: Social Norms and Information Diffusion in Water-saving Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Colombia

Mónica Marcela Jaime Torres and Fredrik Carlsson

651: The Changing Structure of Swedish Foreign Aid

Arne Bigsten, Ann-Sofie Isaksson and Sven Tengstam

650: The hidden costs of nudging: Experimental evidence from reminders in fundraising

Mette Trier Damgaard and Christina Gravert

649: How are you? How's it going? What's up? What's happening? Nudging people to tell us how they really are

Fredrik Carlsson and Mitesh Kataria

648: Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel and Bas van der Klaauw

647: Frustration and Anger in Games: A First Empirical Test of the Theory

Emil Persson

646: A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions

Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer and Randi Hjalmarsson

645: The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime and the Labor Market

Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew Lindquist

644: Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Mikael Lindahl, Evelina Lundberg, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova

643: The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation

Wolfgang Habla and Kerstin Roeder

642: Redistribution through Charity and Optimal Taxation when People are Concerned with Social Status

Thomas Aronsson, Olof Johansson-Stenman and Ron Wendner

641: Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption

Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

640: PARENTAL INVESTMENTS IN CHILD HEALTH – the importance of paternalistic altruism, child egoism and short-sightedness

Kristian Bolin and Björn Lindgren

639: Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic

Paolo Barbieri

638: Education and HIV incidence among young women: causation or selection?

Dick Durevall, Annika Lindskog and Gavin George

637: Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on On-Line Advice

Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher and Paul Muller

636: Strategic Delegation and Non-cooperative International Permit Markets

Wolfgang Habla and Ralph Winkler

635: Resource Windfalls and Local Government Behaviour: Evidence From a Policy Reform in Indonesia

Ola Olsson and Michele Valsecchi

634: Architecture of the EU Emissions Trading System in Phase 3 and the Distribution of Allowance Asset Values

Åsa Löfgren, Dallas Burtraw, Markus Wråke and Anna Malinovskaya

633: The Pioneers’ Arguments for Formulating Economic Problems Mathematically

Bo Sandelin

632: Modelling Household Cooking Fuel Choice: a Panel Multinomial Logit Approach

Yonas Alem, Abebe D. Beyene, Gunnar Köhlin and Alemu Mekonnen

631: International Remittances and Private Inter-household Transfers: Exploring the Links

Yonas Alem and Lisa Andersson

630: Improving Welfare through Climate-friendly Agriculture: The Case of the System of Rice Intensification

Yonas Alem, Håkan Eggert and Remidius Ruhinduka

629: Grit Trumps Talent? An experimental approach

Leonie Gerhards and Christina Gravert

628: Land Certification and Schooling in Rural Ethiopia

Heather Congdon Fors, Kenneth Houngbedji and Annika Lindskog

627: Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence

Jan Feld, Jan Sauermann and Andries de Grip

626: Strategic environmental regulation of multiple pollutants

Stefan Ambec and Jessica Coria

625: Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, II: The Relation between Solidarity and Unity

Johan Stennek

624: Do the land-poor gain from agricultural investments? Empirical evidence from Zambia using panel data

Pelle Ahlerup and Sven Tengstam

623: Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Corrado Giulietti, Juan D. Robalinod and Klaus Zimmermann

622: Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making

Shamena Anwar Anwar, Patrick Bayer and Randi Hjalmarsson

621: Keeping up with the Joneses, the Smiths and the Tanakas: On International Tax Coordination and Social Comparisons

Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

620: Long-Run Cultural Divergence: Evidence From the Neolithic Revolution

Ola Olsson and Christopher Paik

619: Testing preference formation in learning design contingent valuation (LDCV) using advanced information and repetitivetreatments

Claudia Aravena, W. George Hutchinson, Fredrik Carlsson and David I Matthews

618: Spending time together? Effects on the retirement decision from partner’s labour market status

Anders Boman

617: Intuitive cooperation refuted: Commentary on Rand et al. (2012) and Rand et al. (2014)

Kristian Ove R. Myrseth and Conny Wollbrant

616: Divergence in Stakeholders’ Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden

Anna Nordén, Jessica Coria, Anna Maria Jönsson, Fredrik Lagergren and Veiko Lehsten

615: Are Fairtrade Prices Fair? An Analysis of the Distribution of Returns in the Swedish Coffee Market

Dick Durevall

614: Environmental Policy and the Size Distribution of Firms

Jessica Coria and Efthymia Kyriakopoulou

613: Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden

Joakim Ruist

612: Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?

Oana Borcan, Mikael Lindahl and Andreea Mitrut

611: Back To Bentham: Should We? LargeScale Comparison of Decision versus Experienced Utility for IncomeLeisure Preferences

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and H. Xavier Jara

610: On The Strategic Effect of International Permits Trading on Local Pollution: The Case of Multiple Pollutants

Fabio Antoniou and Efthymia Kyriakopoulou

609: Carbon Pricing: Transaction Costs of Emissions Trading vs. Carbon Taxes

Jessica Coria and Jūratė Jaraite-Kažukauskė

608: The Harrington Paradox Squared

Jessica Coria and Xiao-Bing Zhang

607: Importing High Food Prices by Exporting: Rice Prices in Lao PDR

Dick Durevall and Roy van der Weide

606: Paternalism against Veblen: Optimal Taxation and Non-Respected Preferences for Social Comparisons

Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

605: Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption

Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

604: Remittances after natural disasters: Evidence from the 2004 Indian tsunami

Andreea Mitrut and François-Charles Wolff

603: Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem

Martin Dufwenberg and Amrish Patel