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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 | SwedenFuel 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, TanzaniaWe 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, EthiopiaIt 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 | SwedenAgricultural 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 HubCurrently, 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 HubThe 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