Katarina Nordblom

Associate Professor/Dean
Address: P.O. Box 640, SE 405 30 Göteborg

Visiting address: Vasagatan 1, E-house
Tel.: +46-(0)31-786 1338
Fax: +46-(0)31-786 1043
Email: Katarina.Nordblom@economics.gu.se
Room: E-514

Fields of interest: Public Economics and Behavioral Economics

Downloadable papers:Published and forthcoming articles:

• Nature and nurture- The relation between number of siblings and earnings (2012) Applied Economics Letters 19(8), 759-762. Joint work with Elina Lampi
• Bequests, gifts, and education - Links between intergenerational transfers (2011), Empirical Economics, forthcoming. Joint work with Henry Ohlsson
• Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden, (2011), Economics Letters, 110(3), 248-251. Joint work with Peter Martinsson, Daniela Rützler, and Matthias Sutter
• The complex attitudes to alcohol taxation(2011), Applied Economics, 43(24): 3355-3364.
• Social norms and gift behavior: Theory and evidence from Romania (2010), European Economic Review, 54(8): 998-1015. Joint work with Andreea Mitrut 
• Attitudes towards CO₂ taxation - Is there an Al Gore effect? (2010) Applied Economics Letters, 17: 845 - 848. Joint work with Åsa Löfgren.
• Money and success - Sibling and birth-order effects on positional concerns, (2010), Journal of Economic Psychology, 31(1): 131-142. Joint work with Elina Lampi. 
• Puzzling tax attitudes and labels (2009), Applied Economics Letters 16: 1809-1812. Joint work with Åsa Löfgren.
• Perceived tax evasion and the importance of trust (2009), Journal of Socio-Economics 38: 238-245. Joint work with Henrik Hammar and Sverker Jagers.
• Attitudes towards tax levels - a multi-tax comparison (2008), Fiscal Studies 29(4): 523-543. Joint work with Henrik Hammar and Sverker Jagers.
• Maximum fee versus child benefit: A welfare analysis of Swedish child-care reform (2007) International Tax and Public Finance 14(4): 457-480. Joint work with Anna Brink and Roger Wahlberg
• Tax avoidance and intra-family transfers (2006) Journal of Public Economics 90:1669-1680. Joint work with Henry Ohlsson.
• Cohabitation and Marriage in a Risky World (2004) Review of Economics of the Household 2: 325-340
• Is Increased Public Schooling really a policy for Equality? The Role of Within-the-Family Education (2003) Journal of Public Economics 87:1943-1965 
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• Recent Working Papers:
•  Loss Evasion and Tax Aversion Working Paper no. 518, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg, 2011. Joint work with Per Engström, Henry Ohlsson, and Annika Persson.
• Endogenous Norm Formation Over the Life Cycle – The Case of Tax Evasion Working Paper no. 511, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg, 2011. Joint work with Jovan Žamac.

• Social preferences during childhood and the role of gender and age - An experiment in Austria and Sweden, Working Paper no. 474, Dept of Economics, Göteborg University, 2010. Joint work with Peter Martinsson, Daniela Rützler, and Matthias Sutter.
• Are Men Really More Overconfident than Women? - A Natural Field Experiment on Exam Behavior Working Paper no. 461, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg, 2010. Joint work with Olof Johansson-Stenman.
•  Social preferences in childhood and adolescence: A large-scale experiment, IZA discussion paper 5016, 2010. Joint work with Matthias Sutter, Francesco Fehri, Martin Kocher, Peter Martinsson, and Daniela Rützler.
• Risk-taking middle-borns: A study on birth-order and risk preferences, Working Paper no. 438, Dept of Economics, Göteborg University, 2010. Joint work with Elina Lampi
• Gender and birth-order differences in time and risk preferences and decisions, Working Paper no. 388, Dept of Economics, Göteborg University, 2009. Joint work with Elina Lampi
• Family-size effects on earnings - Definitions matter, Working Paper no. 364, Dept of Economics, Göteborg University, 2009. Joint work with Elina Lampi 
• Intergovernmental grants and fiscal competition Working Paper no. 338, Dept of Economics, Göteborg University, 2009. Joint work with Niklas Jakobsson
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In Swedish

• Svenska skatters legitimitet i en tid av globalisering (The legitimacy of Swedish taxes in a time of globalization) (2008) Report to the Globalisation Council's taxation group.
• Skatter och skattefusk i Holmberg & Weibull (red) Lyckan kommer, lyckan går, SOM-rapport 36,Göteborgs universitet, (2005). Joint work with Henrik Hammar and Sverker Jagers

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