Emma von Essen, PhD Student

Stockholm University Department of Economics SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden

+46-8-163175

Short presentation

I have been a PhD student at the Department of Economics since September 2006. I have focused on Microeconomics, specializing in empirical Behavioral economics. My interest is the determinants of individual differences in economic behavior in varying contexts. I have designed and conducted a broad series of empirical studies using methods ranging from lab and field-experiments to random sample surveys.

Research interests

  • Behavioral Economics
  • Experimental Economics
  • Development economics
  • Applied econometrics

Publications

Gender and Competition in Adolescence: Task Matters Co-authered with Anna Dreber, and Eva Ranehill. (forthcoming in Experimental Economics)

Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination Co-authered with Konstanze Albrecht, Juliane Parys and Nora Szech. (forthcoming in European Economic Review)

Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk Taking: Comparing Children in Colombia and Sweden, Co-authored with Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Anna Dreber and Eva Ranehill, (JEBO, 2011)

Outrunning the Gender Gap – Boys and Girls Compete Equally, Co-authored with Anna Dreber and Eva Ranehill, 2011, Experimental Economics, 2011, Volume 14, Number 4, Pages 567-582.

Idea Group Reference, Pennsylvania State University, USA, Gender and E-service in CEE and the CIS, Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, Eileen M. Trauth (red), 2006.

Working papers

A matter of transient anonymity:Discrimination by gender and foreignness in online auctions, Co-authored with Jonas Karlsson. 2013. Research Papers in Economics, Department of Economics, Stockholm University. No 2013:6.

Punishment and Status, Co-authored with Eva Ranehill, 2011, Research Papers in Economics from Stockholm University, Department of Economics, No. 2011:26.

Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden, Co-authored with Eva Ranehill, 2011, Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics, No. 735.

Age at pubertal onset and educational outcomes, Co-authored with Anna Dreber and Eva Ranehill.

Bostadspolitiska förändringar i Europa (European Real Estate policies in change), Co-authored with Professor Bengt Turner and Karin Andersson, 2006, Institute for Urban and Real Estate Research (IBF), Uppsala University (in Swedish).