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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

recommendations is highly debatable. We investigate the external validity of a framed field experiment that mimics coca cultivation … and find evidence that behavior in the experiment is consistent with self-reported behavior. We use the experiment to … discuss the effectiveness of carrot and stick policies on coca investments. The experiment indicates that subjects are more …

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin G.; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …

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Tax Toleration and Tax Compliance: How Government Affects the Propensity of Firms to Enter the Uno¢ cial Economy

Hibbs Jr., Douglas A.; Piculescu, Violeta - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

How do government-supplied institutional benefits and the taxation and regulation of produc- ers affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy and evade taxation? We propose a model in which the incentive of firms to operate underground depends on tax rates relative to...

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How middle-men can undermine anti-corruption reforms

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Torsvik, Gaute; Tungodden, Bertil - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2004

The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, a number of “tax experts” established themselves in the market, many of them being laid off tax bureaucrats. We argue that middle-men can undermine...

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Would The Right Social Preference Model Please Stand Up!

Daruvala, Dinky - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

A number of competing social preference models have been developed inspired by the evidence from economic experiments. We test the relative performance of some of these models using an experimental design that is aimed at capturing pure distributional concerns in a multi-person setting. We find...

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Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution

Weng, Qian; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

of income distribution in team cooperation. In a repeated public good experiment, conditions vary among different …

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SELF IMAGE AND CHOICE EXPERIMENTS: HYPOTHETICAL AND ACTUAL WILLINGNESS TO PAY

Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Svedsäter, Henrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

honesty, and consistency between sequential choices. A model is tested by conducting the same choice-experiment for two WWF … are hypothetical, lower in a real-money experiment that follows a hypothetical experiment, and lowest when real … real-money experiment. The empirical results are consistent with these hypotheses. <p> …

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Choosing from Behind a Veil of Ignorance in India

Carlsson, Fredrik; Gupta, Gautam; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

Social inequality aversion is measured through a veil-of-ignorance experiment with Indian students. The median relative …

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Keeping Up with the Vaishyas: Caste and Relative Standing

Carlsson, Fredrik; Gupta, Gautam; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

We investigate the importance of relative income within the Indian Caste system, using a choice experiment. We find …

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Are Vietnamese Farmers Concerned with their Relative Position in Society?

Carlsson, Fredrik; Nam, Pham Khanh; Linde-Rahr, Martin; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2005

This paper examines the attitude towards relative position or status among rural households in Vietnam. On average, the respondents show weaker preferences for relative position than in comparable studies in Western countries. Possible explanations are the emphasis on the importance of equality...

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