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Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations matching the above criteria.
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1. Individual Preferences, Choices, and Risk Perceptions - survey based evidence
Abstract : Paper 1 investigates how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are the most positional, but that number of siblings increases the concern for their position among those who grew up together with siblings. READ MORE
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2. Prosocial Behavior, Social Interaction and Development: Experimental Evidence from Vietnam
Abstract : Paper 1. Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A Field Experiment on Conditional Cooperation and Default Contributions The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. READ MORE
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3. Resources and relative deprivation : analysing mechanisms behind income, inequality and ill-health
Abstract : Even in more egalitarian welfare states health is related to income. Improvements in health are acknowledged over the entire income distribution, albeit with decreasing marginal returns of health at higher income levels. READ MORE
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4. Decisions under uncertainty : the usefulness of an indifference method for analysis of dominance
Abstract : Uncertainty plays a vital part in all decision making. The position taken in this dissertation is that the choice of action should correspond to the decision maker’s preferences and to the judgement of the uncertainty involved, consistent with the expected utility model. READ MORE
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5. On the Economics and Politics of Mobility
Abstract : Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States. During the Age of Mass Migration, 30 million Europeans immigrated to the United States. We study the long-term political effects of this large-scale migration episode on origin communities using detailed historical data from Sweden. READ MORE