Essays on the political economy of development: Determinants of political and economic behavior
This PhD dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters in the field of Political Development Economics. They are all empirical projects studying decision-making under heterogeneous conditions. In the first chapter, I investigate the causal link between economic expectations and voting in an...
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ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/240559 2024-01-14T10:07:20+01:00 Essays on the political economy of development: Determinants of political and economic behavior Agneman, Gustav 2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240559 eng eng Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics Series: PhD Series No. 211 gbv-ppn:1761226401 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240559 http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen ddc:330 doc-type:doctoralThesis 2020 ftzbwkiel 2023-12-18T00:44:15Z This PhD dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters in the field of Political Development Economics. They are all empirical projects studying decision-making under heterogeneous conditions. In the first chapter, I investigate the causal link between economic expectations and voting in an independence referendum, and document that the effect is contingent upon voters' identity. In the second chapter we map state capacity at the subnational level in Africa and show that the risk of oil induced conflicts depends on levels of local state capacity. The third chapter focuses on the link between food scarcity and cooperative investments. Exploiting the harvest as an exogenous shock to food supply in rural Tanzania, we document a causal role of food scarcity in suppressing socially efficient cooperation. The fourth and final chapter studies moral decision making in Greenland. We develop a measure of parochial honesty - the propensity to behave honestly toward the ingroup but not toward the outgroup - and show that market exposure predicts the degree of group differentiation. Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Greenland EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) Greenland |
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This PhD dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters in the field of Political Development Economics. They are all empirical projects studying decision-making under heterogeneous conditions. In the first chapter, I investigate the causal link between economic expectations and voting in an independence referendum, and document that the effect is contingent upon voters' identity. In the second chapter we map state capacity at the subnational level in Africa and show that the risk of oil induced conflicts depends on levels of local state capacity. The third chapter focuses on the link between food scarcity and cooperative investments. Exploiting the harvest as an exogenous shock to food supply in rural Tanzania, we document a causal role of food scarcity in suppressing socially efficient cooperation. The fourth and final chapter studies moral decision making in Greenland. We develop a measure of parochial honesty - the propensity to behave honestly toward the ingroup but not toward the outgroup - and show that market exposure predicts the degree of group differentiation. |
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Essays on the political economy of development: Determinants of political and economic behavior |
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Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics |
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Series: PhD Series No. 211 gbv-ppn:1761226401 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240559 |
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