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Social Information and Charitable Giving: An artefactual field experiment with young children and adolescents

Guzmán, Andrea; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a repeated dictator game with treatments that either provides participants with information about the average behavior of others or not. In a sample of 384 children aged 5-17, we...

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Analyzing Economic Market Interactions as Conflicts: New Concepts to Assess Market-Based Policy Instruments

Mason, Simon A.; Muller, Adrian - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

Complementing market-based policy instruments with conflict analysis approaches provides a wider understanding of market situations and allows to identify minimal requirements regarding needs, power and conflict dynamics. If these are not met, a market cannot be successfully introduced or a...

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Unequal Property Rights: A study of land right inequalities in Rwanda

Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

The aim of the present paper is to examine the existence and patterns of systematic within-country inequalities in effective land rights in Rwanda. The results of empirical estimations drawing on data on the land tenure arrangements of over 5,000 Rwandan households indeed suggest systematic...

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Institution building with limited resources: Establishing a supreme audit institution in Rwanda

Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Bigsten, Arne - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

This study is about institution building with limited resources. Through a case study of the establishment of a supreme audit institution (SAI) in Rwanda, we examine the tensions between institutional first-best benchmarks and local operational constraints in a developing country...

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The effect of water and sanitation on child mortality in Egypt

Abou-Ali, Hala - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

This paper assesses water and sanitation’s impacts on child mortality in Egypt. The analysis is conducted using a three …

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Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality - A Theory of Domino Effects

Stennek, Johan - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

Numerous empirical studies show that unions reduce wage differences. But surprisingly few attempts have been made to understand why. Swedish unions reveal that the reason is both ideological and strategic. Relying on employers to voluntarily increase higher wages, to protect efficiency-enhancing...

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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption: Evidence from a "Xeroxed" Exam

Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to … identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. Specifically, we exploit the …—the Baccalaureate. To exploit the effect of an income shock on corruption, we use a difference-in-difference strategy and compare the …

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Taxes, Wages and Working Hours

Ericson, Peter; Flood, Lennart - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

This paper presents estimates of individuals’ responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to 2007 produce significant but relatively small net-of-tax rate elasticities. The results vary with...

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Households' income-generating activities and marginal returns to labor in rural Tanzania

Nerman, Måns - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

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 within different activities, aiming to assess whether households are able to...

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Market Imperfections and Wage Inequality

Sandén, Klas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

This paper investigates the relationship between various market imperfections and the skill premium. The model in this paper assumes perfectly competitive labor markets but distorted product and financial markets. The model predicts that the skill premium is positively correlated with market...

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