Human Dna2 is a nuclear and mitochondrial DNA maintenance protein (2009)
Duxin, Julien P., Dao, Benjamin, Martinsson, Peter, Rajala, Nina, Guittat, Lionel, Campbell, Judith L., ...
Dna2 is a highly conserved helicase/nuclease that in yeast participates in Okazaki fragment processing, DNA repair, and telomere maintenance. Here, we investigated the biological function of human...
What Contributes to Life Satisfaction in Transitional Romania? (2006)
Andrén, Daniela, Martinsson, Peter
This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals,we...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
In this paper we analyze the effect of information on respondents’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages in Sweden, by employing an open-ended contingent valuation survey. Two aspects of...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
In a split sample design, we examine how the number of choice sets, design of the first choice set (starting point), and the choice of attribute levels in the cost attribute affect the precision in...
Are Vietnamese Farmers Concerned with their Relative Position in Society? (2005)
Carlsson, Fredrik, Nam, Pham Khanh, Linde-Rahr, Martin, Martinsson, Peter
This paper examines the attitude towards relative position or status among rural households in Vietnam. On average, the respondents show weaker preferences for relative position than in comparable...
Trust, Trust Games and Stated Trust: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh (2005)
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Mahmud, Minhaj, Martinsson, Peter
Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing the behaviour in a trust game using a random sample in rural Bangladesh. Follow-up questions and...
Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh (2005)
Mahmud, Minhaj, Martinsson, Peter
Trust is measured using both survey questions and a standard trust experiment using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh. We found no significant effect of the social distance between...
Ostracism and the Provision of a Public Good. Experimental Evidence. (2005)
Maier-Rigaud, Frank, Martinsson, Peter, Staffiero, Gianandrea
We analyze the effects of ostracism on cooperation in a linear public good experiment. Our results show that introducing ostracism increases contributions. Despite reductions in group size due to...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Lampi, Elina, Martinsson, Peter
This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden, by using a choice...
Does stake size matter in trust games? (2004)
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Mahmud, Minhaj, Martinsson, Peter
In a trust game conducted in rural Bangladesh, the proportion of money sent decreased significantly with the stake size. Still, even with very large stakes few followed the conventional economic...
Honestly, why are you driving a BMW? (2004)
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
This paper proposes that people derive utility not only from goods or their attributes as in standard models, but also from their self-image as influenced by their own perception of their...
Is Transport Safety More Valuable in the Air? (2004)
Carlsson, Fredrik, Johansson Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
Are Commercial Fishers Risk Lovers? (2003)
Eggert, Håkan, Martinsson, Peter
Empirical studies of fishers’ preferences have found that most fishers are risk-averse, while expected-utility theory predicts risk neutrality even for sizable stakes. We test this prediction using...
Design Techniques for Stated Preference Methods in Health Economics (2003)
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
This paper discusses different design techniques for stated preference surveys in health economic applications. In particular we focus on different design techniques, i.e. how to combine the...
Anyone for Higher Speed Limits? - Self-Interested and Adaptive Political Preferences (2003)
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
Swedish survey-evidence indicates that variables reflecting self-interest are important in explaining people’s preferred speed limits, and that political preferences adapt to technological...
Are Some Lives More Valuable? (2003)
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
A theoretical model of the ethical preferences of individuals is tested by conducting a choice experiment on safety-enhancing road investments. The relative value of a saved life is found to decrease...
Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation (2003)
Alpizar, Francisco, Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent...
Do You Enjoy Having More Than Others? Survey Evidence of Positional Goods (2003)
Carlsson, Fredrik, Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
Although conventional economic theory proposes that only the absolute levels of income and consumption matter for people’s utility, there is much evidence that relative concerns are often...
What contributes to life satisfaction in transitional Romania? (2003)
Andrén, Daniela, Martinsson, Peter
This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we...
Is Transport Safety More Valuable in the Air? (2002)
Carlsson, Fredrik, Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
Using a contingent valuation survey, people’s willingness to pay for a given risk reduction is found to be much larger when traveling by air compared to by taxi. Follow-up questions revealed that...
THE EFFECT OF CIGARETTE PRICES AND ANTISMOKING POLICIES ON THE AGE OF SMOKING INITIATION (2001)
Hammar, Henrik, Martinsson, Peter
This study differs from most previous studies on smoking initiation by studying the age of smoking onset, and not merely smoking initiation. We apply duration analysis to estimate the determinants of...
Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation (2001)
Alpizar, Francisco, Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent...
Stated preference methods and empirical analyses of equity in health economics (2000)
This dissertation considers two different aspects of health economics; (i) stated preference methods and (ii) empirical analyses of equity. The first essay deals with the issue of the choice of...
Ultrafast Dynamics in Ground and Excited States of Porphyrin Molecules (1999)
This thesis describes inter and intramolecular dynamics in porphyrin molecules. To create a basis for understanding the energy and electron transfer processes in photosynthesis, the ultrafast...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
In this paper we test the validity of choice experiments with donations for environmental projects. In particular, we test whether or not willingness to pay for projects differs between a...
Are Vietnamese Farmers Concerned with their Relative Position in Society?
Carlsson, Fredrik, Nam, Pham Khanh, Linde-Rahr, Martin, Martinsson, Peter
This paper examines the attitude towards relative position or status among rural households in Vietnam. On average, the respondents show weaker preferences for relative position than in comparable...
What Contributes to Life Satisfaction in Transitional Romania?
Daniela Andrén, Peter Martinsson
This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we...
Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Mahmud, Minhaj, Martinsson, Peter
Trust is measured using both survey questions and a standard trust experiment using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh. We found no significant effect of the social distance between...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
In this paper we analyze the effect of information on respondents’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages in Sweden, by employing an open-ended contingent valuation survey.Two aspects of...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
In a split sample design, we examine how the number of choice sets, design of the first choice set (starting point), and the choice of attribute levels in the cost attribute affect the precision in...
Dashdorj, Naranbaatar, Xu, Wu, Martinsson, Peter, Chitnis, Parag R., Savikhin, Sergei
Nanosecond absorption dynamics at ∼685 nm after excitation of photosystem I (PS I) from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is consistent with electrochromic shift of absorption bands of the Chl a pigments...
Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Olof Johansson Stenman, Minhaj Mahmud, Peter Martinsson
Trust is measured using both survey questions and a standard trust experiment among a random sample of Muslim and Hindu household heads in rural Bangladesh. We found no significant effect of the...
Trust, Trust Games and Stated Trust: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Olof Johansson Stenman, Minhaj Mahmud, Peter Martinsson
Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing the behaviour in a trust game using a random sample in rural Bangladesh. Follow-up questions and...
Dashdorj, Naranbaatar, Xu, Wu, Martinsson, Peter, Chitnis, Parag R., Savikhin, Sergei
Nanosecond absorption dynamics at ∼685 nm after excitation of photosystem I (PS I) from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is consistent with electrochromic shift of absorption bands of the Chl a pigments...
Design techniques for stated preference methods in health economics
Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson
This paper discusses different design techniques for stated preference surveys in health economic applications. In particular, we focus on different design techniques, i.e. how to combine the...
Health insurance and treatment seeking behaviour: evidence from a low-income country
Matthew Jowett, Anil Deolalikar, Peter Martinsson
This paper analyses the effect of being insured under the voluntary component of Vietnamese Health Insurance, on patterns of treatment seeking behaviour. A multinomial logit model is estimated using...
Do You Enjoy Having More than Others? Survey Evidence of Positional Goods
FREDRIK CARLSSON, OLOF JOHANSSON-STENMAN, PETER MARTINSSON
Although conventional economic theory proposes that only the absolute levels of income and consumption matter for people's utility, there is much evidence that relative concerns are often important....
Does Stake Size matter for Cooperation and Punishment?
Martin G. Kocher, Peter Martinsson, Martine Visser
The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor,...
Are Vietnamese farmers concerned with their relative position in society?
Fredrik Carlsson, Pham Khanh Nam, Martin Linde-Rahr, Peter Martinsson
This paper examines the attitude towards relative position or status among rural households in Vietnam. On average, respondents show rather weak preferences for relative position. Possible...
Anyone for higher speed limits? – Self-interested and adaptive political preferences
Olof Johansson-Stenman, Peter Martinsson
Swedish survey-evidence indicates that variables reflecting self-interest are important in explaining people’s preferred speed limits, and that political preferences adapt to technological...
Is Transport Safety More Valuable in the Air?
Fredrik Carlsson, Olof Johansson-Stenman, Peter Martinsson
Using a contingent valuation survey, people's willingness to pay for a given risk reduction is found to be much larger, consistently more than two times as large, when traveling by air compared to by...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
In this paper we test the validity of choice experiments with donations for environmental projects. In particular, we test whether or not willingness to pay for projects differs between a...
Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation
Alpizar, Francisco, Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent...
THE EFFECT OF CIGARETTE PRICES AND ANTISMOKING POLICIES ON THE AGE OF SMOKING INITIATION
Hammar, Henrik, Martinsson, Peter
This study differs from most previous studies on smoking initiation by studying the age of smoking onset, and not merely smoking initiation. We apply duration analysis to estimate the determinants of...
Is Transport Safety More Valuable in the Air?
Carlsson, Fredrik, Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
Using a contingent valuation survey, people’s willingness to pay for a given risk reduction is found to be much larger when traveling by air compared to by taxi. Follow-up questions revealed that...
Are Commercial Fishers Risk Lovers?
Eggert, Håkan, Martinsson, Peter
Empirical studies of fishers’ preferences have found that most fishers are risk-averse, while expected-utility theory predicts risk neutrality even for sizable stakes. We test this prediction using...
Anyone for Higher Speed Limits? - Self-Interested and Adaptive Political Preferences
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
Swedish survey-evidence indicates that variables reflecting self-interest are important in explaining people’s preferred speed limits, and that political preferences adapt to technological...
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
A theoretical model of the ethical preferences of individuals is tested by conducting a choice experiment on safety-enhancing road investments. The relative value of a saved life is found to decrease...
Do You Enjoy Having More Than Others? Survey Evidence of Positional Goods
Carlsson, Fredrik, Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
Although conventional economic theory proposes that only the absolute levels of income and consumption matter for people’s utility, there is much evidence that relative concerns are often...
What contributes to life satisfaction in transitional Romania?
Andrén, Daniela, Martinsson, Peter
This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we...
Measuring marginal values of noise disturbance from air traffic: Does the time of the day matter?
Carlsson, Fredrik, Lampi, Elina, Martinsson, Peter
This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden,by using a choice...
Does stake size matter in trust games?
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Mahmud, Minhaj, Martinsson, Peter
In a trust game conducted in rural Bangladesh, the proportion of money sent decreased significantly with the stake size. Still, even with very large stakes few followed the conventional economic...
Honestly, why are you driving a BMW?
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
This paper proposes that people derive utility not only from goods or their attributes as in standard models, but also from their self-image as influenced by their own perception of their...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
Using a contingent valuation survey, we elicit Swedish households’ willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid power outages. In the study respondents are asked to state their WTP for avoiding nine different...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
Using a choice experiment survey, the marginal willingness to pay (WTP) among Swedish households for reductions in power outages is estimated. The results from the random parameter logit estimation...
Trust, Trust Games and Stated Trust: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Mahmud, Minhaj, Martinsson, Peter
Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing the behaviour in a trust game using a random sample in rural Bangladesh. Follow-up questions and...
Measuring marginal values of noise disturbance from air traffic: Does the time of the day matter?
Carlsson, Fredrik, Lampi, Elina, Martinsson, Peter
This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden,by using a choice...
Ostracism and the Provision of a Public Good, Experimental Evidence
Peter Martinsson, Gianandrea Staffiero
We analyze the effects of ostracism on cooperation in a linear public good experiment. Our results show that introducing ostracism increases contributions. Despite reductions in group size due to...
Ibanez, Marcela, Martinsson, Peter
Laboratory experiments are potentially effective tools for studying behavior in settings where little or no information would otherwise exist such as participation in illicit activities. However,...
Does stake size matter for cooperation and punishment?
Kocher, Martin G., Martinsson, Peter, Visser, Martine
The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor the...
Are some lives more valuable? An ethical preferences approach
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Martinsson, Peter
We develop a theoretical model of the ethical preferences of individuals, combining individual social welfare functions and random utility theory. The model is applied by conducting a choice...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter
Using a choice experiment survey, the marginal willingness to pay (WTP) among Swedish households for reductions in power outages is estimated. The results from the random parameter logit estimation...
Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson
Attribute levels, Choice experiment, Context dependence, Length, Power outages, C25, D12, Q41,
Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan, Martinsson, Peter
We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, where relative income has shown a significant...
Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson, Ping Qin, Matthias Sutter
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter, Qin, Ping, Sutter, Matthias
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We...
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter, Qin, Ping, Sutter, Matthias
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We...
Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Akay, Alpaslan, Martinsson, Peter, Medhin, Haileselassie, Trautmann, Stefan T.
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by...
Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
OLOF JOHANSSON-STENMAN, MINHAJ MAHMUD, PETER MARTINSSON
Trust is measured using both survey questions and a trust experiment among a random sample of Muslim and Hindu household heads in rural Bangladesh. We found no significant effect of the social...
The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik, Martinsson, Peter, Akay, Alpaslan
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP...
Conditional Cooperation and Social Group - Experimental results from Colombia
Martinsson, Peter, Villegas-Palacio, Clara, Wollbrant, Conny
In contrast to previous studies on cross-group comparisons of conditional cooperation, this study keeps cross- and within-country dimensions constant. The results reveal significantly different...
Easy come, easy go - The role of windfall money in lab and field experiments
Carlsson, Fredrik, He, Haoran, Martinsson, Peter
A growing number of experimental studies focus on the differences between the lab and the field. Important in this issue is the role of windfall money. By conducting a dictator game, where the...
Akay, Alpaslan, Martinsson, Peter, Medhin, Haileselassie
We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in...
Are Commercial Fishers Risk-Lovers?
Håkan Eggert, Peter Martinsson
Fishers are risk-averse according to most empirical studies, while expected-utility theory predicts risk neutrality even for sizable stakes. We test this prediction using data from a stated-choice...
Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson
Using a contingent valuation survey, we elicit Swedish householdsÕ willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid power outages. In the study respondents are asked to state their WTP for avoiding nine different...
Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Alpaslan Akay, Peter Martinsson, Haileselassie Medhin, Stefan T. Trautmann
Social Background, Cooperative Behavior, and Norm Enforcement
Kocher, Martin, Martinsson, Peter, Visser, Martine
Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have...
Does age matter for the value of life? - Evidence from a choice experiment in rural Bangladesh
Johansson-Stenman, Olof, Mahmud, Minhaj, Martinsson, Peter
Using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh, this paper investigates people’s preferences regarding relative values of lives when it comes to different ages of the individuals being...
Using Choice Experiments for Non-Market Valuation
This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments applied to valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well-known contingent...
Akay, Alpaslan, Martinsson, Peter
This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved...
Akay, Alpaslan, Martinsson, Peter
This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved...