Publications
The Department of Economics prioritises high-quality research and publishing in leading peer-reviewed journals. Most of our research output first appears in the Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics series. Published journal articles, working papers and PhD theses are listed through the links on this page. Book chapters, forthcoming journal articles are often listed on the personal web pages.
Forthcoming and Recent Publications (in selection)
Adrian Poignan. Electricity and female employment: Evidence from Tajikistan’s winter energy crisis. Journal of Development Economics.
Travers B. Child, Austin L. Wright & Yun Xiao. Aid Fragmentation and Corruption. The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Ofer Malamud, Andreea Mitrut, Cristian-Pop Eleches & Miguel Urquiola. Self-, Peer- and Teacher Perceptions under School Tracking. Review of Economics and Statistics.
Martin Karlsson, Yulong Wang & Nicolas R. Ziebarth. Getting the right tail right: Modeling tails of health expenditure distributions. Journal of Health Economics.
Claes Ek & Magnus Söderberg. Norm-based feedback on household waste: Large-scale field experiments in two Swedish municipalities. Journal of Public Economics.
Fredrik Carlsson, Claes Ek & Andreas Lange. One bad apple spoils the barrel? Public good provision under threshold uncertainty. Experimental Economics.
Francisco Alpizar, Fredrik Carlsson & Gracia Lanza. On the perils of environmentally friendly alternatives. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Evelina Björkegren, Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme & Emilia Simeonova. Decomposing the Parental Education Gradient in Health: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees. Journal of Labor Economics.
Sanna Bergvall. Women's Economic Empowerment and Intimate Partner Violence. Journal of Public Economics.
Michelle D’Arcy, Marina Nistotskaya & Ola Olsson. Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel. Journal of Political Economy.
Andreas Dzemski & Ryo Oku. Confidence Set for Group Membership. Quantitative Economics.
Laura Mayoral & Ola Olsson. Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development: The case of ancient Egypt. Journal of Economic Growth.
Heather Congdon Fors, Ann-Sofie Isaksson & Annika Lindskog. Changing local customs: The long run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting in Africa. Journal of Development Economics.
M. A. Drupp, M. C. Haensel, E. P. Fenichel, M. Freeman, C. Gollier, B. Groom, G. M. Heal, P. H. Howard, A. Millner, F. C. Moore, F. Nesje, M. F. Quaas, S. Smulders, Thomas Sterner, C. Traeger & F. Venmans. Accounting for the increasing benefits from scarce ecosystems. SCIENCE.
Journal Articles and Books
The primary outlet for research is international peer-reviewed journals in economics. All new publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, are included in the University publications' list. Here you may also find published books and book chapters.
Working Papers
New research from the Department of Economics is first published in the Working Papers in Economics series. All papers are available at Swopec, Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics.
Doctoral Theses
The doctoral theses are available as PDF:s at Gupea, Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive.