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Corruption along ethnic lines: A study of individual corruption experiences in 17 African countries

Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

While a growing literature relates macro variation in corruption to ethnic divisions, existing studies have paid little … attention to the possible existence of systematic micro variation in corruption along ethnic lines. The present paper examines … whether individual corruption experiences vary systematically depending on ethnic group affiliation, and what the nature of …

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Intertemporal Choice Shifts in Households: Do they occur and are they good?

Carlsson, Fredrik; Yang, Xiaojun - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

We examine whether and to what extent joint choices are more or less patient and time-consistent than individual choices in households. We use data from an artefactual field experiment where both individual and joint time preferences were elicited. We find a substantial shift from individual to...

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Intra-household decisions making on intertemporal choices: An experimental study in rural China

Yang, Xiaojun; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

In this paper, we conduct a high stake experiment in rural China to investigate the determinants of individual and joint decisions regarding intertemporal choices, and estimate the relative influence of spouses on the joint decisions. We use the Convex Time Budget experimental method to elicit...

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Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?

Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous studies, we find that windfall endowments significantly increase the amount donated. The impact of moving from earned to...

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Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...

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Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses’ individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and...

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Easy come, easy go - The role of windfall money in lab and field experiments

Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

A growing number of experimental studies focus on the differences between the lab and the field. Important in this issue is the role of windfall money. By conducting a dictator game, where the recipient is a charity organization, in exactly the same way in the laboratory and in the field, we...

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Can we do policy recommendations from a framed field experiment? The case of coca cultivation in Colombia

Ibanez, Marcela; Martinsson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Laboratory experiments are potentially effective tools for studying behavior in settings where little or no information would otherwise exist such as participation in illicit activities. However, using laboratory experiments to draw policy recommendations is highly debatable. We investigate the...

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Ethnic diversity, economic performance and civil wars

Valsecchi, Michele - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We develop a conflict model linking dissipation to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest version of the model by Esteban and Ray (1999) to include a mixed public-private good. We analyze how the level of dissipation changes as the...

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Social preferences are stable over long periods of time

Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Pham, Khanh Nam - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

We measure people’s prosocial behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor time contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, and in terms of voluntary money contributions in a public good game, using the same non-student sample in rural Vietnam at four different points in time...

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