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Are Natural Disasters Good for Economic Growth?

Ahlerup, Pelle - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Natural disasters plague the populations of many countries, and the international community often seeks to alleviate the human suffering by means of humanitarian aid. Do natural disasters also have negative effects on aggregate economic growth? This paper shows that natural disasters on average...

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The effect of risk, ambiguity, and coordination on farmers’ adaptation to climate change: A framed field experiment

Alpizar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; Naranjo, Maria - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

The risk of loses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly … levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …, climatic event, we expected to observe, and found high levels of risk aversion, but we do observe farmers making trade offs …

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Risk Management in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) – The Potential of Sustainability Labels

Muller, Adrian - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

also serve as a business risk-hedging tool. The existing labels for the CDM are not comprehensive enough, however. A two …

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Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation

Hasson, Reviva; Löfgren, Åsa; Visser, Martine - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

disaster across treatments. Our results show that there is no significant difference in the level of mitigation across these …

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Value of statistical life and cause of accident: A choice experiment

Carlsson, Fredrik; Daruvala, Dinky; Jaldell, Henrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

accidents. Using a choice experiment in a mail survey of 5000 Swedish respondents we estimated the willingness to pay for risk … risk reducing investments where type of accident, cost of the investment, the risk reduction acquired, and the baseline … risk varied between questions. The VSLs for fire and drowning accidents were found to be about 1/3 lower than that for …

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Determinants of Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Siba, Eyerusalem G. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

In this study, a number of factors have been considered as potential determinants of institutional quality in Sub- Saharan African countries. The empirical analysis has shown that historical factors such as state legitimacy determine the quality of current institutions in the region. Foreign aid...

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A choice experiment on coca cropping

Ibanez, Marcela; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Between 1997 and 2005, 5.2 billion USD were invested to reduce cocaine production in Colombia, the world’s main cocaine producer. However, little is known about the effectiveness of policies targeting coca cultivation, this paper evaluates the effects of the two main policies: eradication and...

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Are Religious People More Prosocial? A Quasi-Experimental Study with Madrasah Pupils in a Rural Community in India

Ahmed, Ali M. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Using quasi-experimental data, this paper examines the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous studies which identify religious people by how often they attend religious services or by their self-reported religiosity, this study compares the behavior of...

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In the back of your mind: Subliminal influences of religious concepts on prosocial behavior

Ahmed, Ali M.; Salas, Osvaldo - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Does religion enhance prosocial behavior? We investigate the ways in which implicit influences of religious concepts affect generosity and cooperation. In contrast to previous studies, we assess the direct impact of religion as an independent variable on prosocial behavior. We do so by...

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Investing in children's education: Are Muslim immigrants different?

Mitrut, Andreea; Wolff, Francois-Charles - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Using a unique data set on immigrants living in France in 2003, we investigate whether Muslims invest differently in their children’s education compared to non-Muslims. In particular, we want to assess whether educational inequalities between the children of Muslim and non-Muslim immigrants...

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