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The objective of the present paper is to investigate the robustness of the well-known result that pre-set default options determine people’s choices. We do so by conducting a field experiment among…

25 February 2012 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden

Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor…

9 November 2011 | EfD/RFF Book | Central America, China, Sweden, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania

This is the activity report for the agreement between Sida and the Environmental Economics Unit for 2010. It is an extension of the agreement for the period 2007 – 2009 in support of programs…

24 August 2011 | Report | Sweden

We investigate risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian farmers in one of the poorest regions of the world. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian farmers. We…

24 August 2011 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden, Ethiopia

It has been widely reviewed, reported, and vociferously condemned that the World Bank Group (WBG) is investing heavily in coal. In South Africa, Botswana and India, the Bank has issued over $4 billion…

9 June 2011 | Policy Brief | Sweden

Agricultural Investment and Productivity provides a deep and systematic look at the opportunities for and constraints to investments in sustainable agriculture in East Africa, offering important…

23 May 2011 | Books, EfD/RFF Book | Sweden, Ethiopia, Kenya, Global Hub

This book is the final report from the World Bank's SEA pilot program. It presents the findings and recommendations of the evaluation of the Pilot Program which comprised six SEA pilots on sector…

25 November 2010 | Books, Report | Sweden, Kenya

This is the three-year activity report for the agreement between Sida and the Environmental Economics Unit for the period 2007 – 2009 in support of programs pertaining to environmental economics…

8 June 2010 | Report | Sweden

Currently, there is a general dichotomy in rural development policies. This dichotomy between extension-driven adoption of modern inputs on the one hand, and community-driven local public goods on the…

12 May 2010 | Book Chapter | Sweden, Ethiopia, Global Hub

The Environment for Development initiative started in 2007 and this is the report for the first three-year period. EfD is an initiative to support environmental economics capacity to conduct research…

29 April 2010 | Report | Central America, China, Sweden, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania