Peter Martinsson

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...

Do Experience and Cheap Talk influence Willingness to Pay in an Open-Ended Contingent Valuation Survey? (2006)

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...

How much is too much? - An investigation of the effect of the number of choice sets, starting point and the choice of bid vectors in choice experiments (2006)

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...

Measuring marginal values of noise disturbance from air traffic: Does the time of the day matter? (2004)

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...

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)

Martinsson, Peter

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)

Martinsson, Peter

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...

Do Hypothetical and Actual Willingness to Pay Differ in Choice Experiments? - Application to the Valuation of the Environment (1999)

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...

Do Experience and Cheap Talk influence Willingness to Pay in an Open-Ended Contingent Valuation Survey?

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...

How much is too much? - An investigation of the effect of the number of choice sets, starting point and the choice of bid vectors in choice experiments

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...

Electrochromic Shift of Chlorophyll Absorption in Photosystem I from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: A Probe of Optical and Dielectric Properties around the Secondary Electron Acceptor

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...

Electrochromic Shift of Chlorophyll Absorption in Photosystem I from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: A Probe of Optical and Dielectric Properties around the Secondary Electron Acceptor

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...

Do Hypothetical and Actual Willingness to Pay Differ in Choice Experiments? - Application to the Valuation of the Environment

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...

Are Some Lives More Valuable?

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...

Willingness to Pay among Swedish Households to Avoid Power Outages - A Random Parameter Tobit Model Approach

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...

Does it Matter When a Power Outage Occurs? - A Choice Experiment Study on the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Power Outages

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...

Can we do policy recommendations from a framed field experiment? The case of coca cultivation in Colombia

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...

Does it matter when a power outage occurs? -- A choice experiment study on the willingness to pay to avoid power outages

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...

How Much is Too Much?

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...

Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China

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...

Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China

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...

Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China

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...

Does Positional Concern Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia

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...

Willingness to Pay among Swedish Households to Avoid Power Outages: A Random Parameter Tobit Model Approach

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...

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

Peter Martinsson

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...

Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? - The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status

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...

Sundays Are Blue: Aren’t They? The Day-of-the-Week Effect on Subjective Well-Being and Socio-Economic Status

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...