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Claes Ek

University of Gothenburg

Viktoriagatan 30

Göteborg, 405 30

Sweden

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Scholarly Papers (6)

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1.

Norm-Based Feedback on Household Waste: Large-Scale Field Experiments in Two Swedish Municipalities

CeCAR Working Paper Series No. 12
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Claes Ek and Magnus Söderberg
University of Gothenburg and Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics
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Field experiments, household waste, norm-based feedback, unit-based pricing, pay-as-you-throw

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Social Preferences and Environmental Externalities

CESifo Working Paper No. 11895
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 21 May 2025
Pol Campos-Mercade, Claes Ek, Magnus Söderberg and Florian Schneider
Lund University, University of Gothenburg, Griffith University and University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics
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social preferences, prosociality, environmental behaviors, externalities

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Can teaching children about the environment influence household behavior? Experiments in Swedish schools

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Dec 2024
Claes Ek, Magnus Söderberg and Mitesh Kataria
University of Gothenburg, Griffith University and School of Economics, Business and Law
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Field experiments, Environmental Education Programs, household waste, intergenerational learning JEL classification: D13, I21, Q53

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Pessimism and Overcommitment

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 11 Feb 2022
Claes Ek and Margaret Samahita
University of Gothenburg and University College Dublin
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commitment devices, pessimism, self-control

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All it Takes is One: The Effect of Weakest-Link and Summation Aggregation on Public Good Provision Under Threshold Uncertainty

CESifo Working Paper No. 9457
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 10 Dec 2021
Fredrik Carlsson, Claes Ek and Andreas Lange
Goeteborg University - School of Economics & Commercial Law, University of Gothenburg and University of Hamburg
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public goods, threshold uncertainty, weakest link, coordination, experiment

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Can Teaching Children About the Environment Influence Household Behavior? Experiments in Swedish Schools

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
Claes Ek, Magnus Söderberg and Mitesh Kataria
University of Gothenburg, Griffith University and School of Economics, Business and Law
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Field experiments, Environmental Education Programs, household waste, intergenerational learning