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. The focus of my research is Behavioral Economics, exploring behaviors mainly relating to competitiveness, gender and social status.

Research interests

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

Working papers

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

Dominance and Submission: Social Status biases Economic Sanctions, 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.

In Bloom: Gender Differences in Preferences among Adolescents, Co-authored with Eva Ranehill, 2011, Research Papers in Economics from Stockholm University, Department of Economics. No 2011:14.

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).

Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination Co-authered with Konstanze Albrecht, Juliane Parys and Nora Szech. 2011, IZA Discussion Paper No. 6203.

Publications

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.

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