EfD Joint Report 2012/13
This report presents the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD), its members and work during 2012/13. For a free hardcopy, please send an email to: info@efdinitiative.org
Traffic congestion charges: prices are more effective than restrictions
The citizens of Gothenburg, Sweden will vote soon on whether to continue the already up-and-running congestion charge. New research from the University of Gothenburg shows that congestion charges are…
Re-launch of the EfD website
Welcome to the new EfD website! After a few intensive months’ work, the new EfD website is up and running. The new site is structured in a less hierarchical way than the previous site. Examples of new…
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Sweden
Mobile phones and clothes: Important status symbols for chinese farmers
Rural Chinese households are characterised by significant gender differences; men are more influential than women, and the genders also differ in the way they make decisions. Relative status is…
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Sweden
EEU dissertation- Jorge Bonilla
Jorge Bonilla willdefend his thesis, "Essays on the Economics of Air Quality Control" on June 11 at 09.15 in room E 45, School of Business, Economics and Law (Gothenburg)
EEU dissertation - Xiaojun Yang
Xiaojun Yang will defend her thesis, "Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China”. on Wednesday June 5 th at 10:15 in room E 44, School…
Simplified Solutions to Deforestation Ineffective in the Long Run
Deforestation is the second largest source of CO2 emissions after consumption of fossil fuels. So-called PES programmes (payment for ecosystem services), where landowners are paid to replant or…
Easy come, easy go
EfD Authors:
A growing number of experimental studies focus on the differences between the lab and the field. One important difference between many lab and field experiments is how the endowment is obtained. By conducting a dictator game experiment, we investigate the influences of windfall and earned endowment on behavior in the laboratory and in the field.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth—A multiple country test of an oath script
EfD Authors:
Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how they actually behave. In our study of climate change and carbon emissions reductions, based on the increasing bulk of evidence from psychology and economics regarding the effects of making promises, we investigate the effect of an oath script in a contingent valuation survey.
The Impact of Food Price Inflation on Subjective Well-being: Evidence From Urban Ethiopia
EfD Authors:
The world has experienced dramatic food price inflation in recent years, which sparked social unrest and riots in various developing countries. In this paper, we use a novel approach to measure the impact of food price inflation on subjective well-being of urban households in Ethiopia, a country which exhibited one of the highest rates of food price inflation during 2007–2008.