Search for dissertations about: "Public Goods"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 105 swedish dissertations containing the words Public Goods.
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11. Fairness, Reciprocity and Inequality: Experimental evidence from South Africa
Abstract : This thesis consists of six papers, related to artifactual field experiments, conducted in South Africa. The main focus of the thesis is the effect of different forms of heterogeneity on cooperation and punishment within groups. READ MORE
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12. Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics – Cooperation, Emotions and Health
Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers that explore issues in human behavior and their implications for policy design. The main method used in all four papers consists of lab experiments, a method that facilitates both variation in key institutional features to allow causal inference and analysis of sharp theoretical predictions in a clean environment. READ MORE
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13. Self-Control and Altruism
Abstract : This thesis consists of two theoretical papers on self-control (Chapters 1-2) and four empirical papers (3-6) of which two (Chapter 5 and 6) explore determinants of pro-social behavior, while the other two (Chapters 3-4) examine the relationship between self-control and prosocial behavior. (1) “A Theory of Self-Control-Conflict: The Pyrrhic Motions of Reason and Passion. READ MORE
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14. Studies in empirical public economics
Abstract : Essay 1 studies the redistributional effect of commodity taxes. In the recent literature commodity taxes have been shown to be far less regressive in relation to measures of lifetime resources than in relation to annual income. This suggests that commodity taxation might not have the adverse distributive effect previously believed. READ MORE
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15. Essays on Economics of Natural Resource Management and Experiments
Abstract : This thesis has five self-contained essays. The titles and the abstracts of the various essays are as follows. Paper 1: Natural Resource use Conflict: Gold Mining in Tropical Rainforest in Ghana: Gold is frequently mined in rainforests that can provide either gold or forest benefits, but not both. READ MORE