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Andreas Kotsadam

Andreas Kotsadam

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Political Science

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33
Citations
5374
World Ranking
918
National Ranking
15

Overview

Andreas Kotsadam is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and works primarily in the field of Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Gender Studies, and Accounting. The scientist has a notable focus on a range of research topics such as Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Taxation and Compliance Studies, School Choice and Performance, and Financial Literacy, Pension, and Retirement Analysis.

Their recent papers cover various subjects related to economics, political science, and social behavior. These include:

  • Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams, 2020, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • How Settlement Locations and Local Networks Influence Immigrant Political Integration, 2020, American Journal of Political Science
  • Rainfall shocks and intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Journal of Peace Research
  • Does Wealth Reduce Support for Redistribution? Evidence from an Ethiopian Housing Lottery, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sunshine or Curse? Foreign Direct Investment, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and Individual Corruption Experiences in Africa, 2020, International Studies Quarterly

Kotsadam has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Henning Finseraas, Jeremy Ferwerda, Espen Villanger, and Bernt Bratsberg. These collaborations reflect ongoing engagement with scholars in related domains over multiple publications.

Their work has appeared in various scholarly venues, notably:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Human Resources
  • Journal of Health Economics

In addition to journal articles, Kotsadam has contributed to book publications, including a title published by the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2020. The book is titled "Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A large randomized field experiment on the effects of close contact on interethnic relations = Csak a székek átrendezése a Titanicon? Egy nagymintás randomizált terepkísérlet tanulságai a közeli kontaktusok inter-etnikus kapcsolatokra gyakorlat hatásáról".

Best Publications

  • Cross-national and multilevel correlates of partner violence: an analysis of data from population-based surveys

    Lori L Heise;Andreas Kotsadam

  • The state intervenes in the battle of the sexes: Causal effects of paternity leave

    Andreas Kotsadam;Andreas Kotsadam;Henning Finseraas

  • Chinese aid and local corruption

    Ann Sofie Isaksson;Ann Sofie Isaksson;Andreas Kotsadam

  • The law and economics of international sex slavery: prostitution laws and trafficking for sexual exploitation

    Niklas Jakobsson;Andreas Kotsadam;Andreas Kotsadam

  • Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Sara Cools;Andreas Kotsadam

  • African mining, gender, and local employment

    Andreas Kotsadam;Anja Karolina Tolonen

  • African Mining, Gender, and Local Employment

    Andreas Kotsadam;Anja Karolina Tolonen

  • Mining and Local Corruption in Africa

    Carl Henrik Knutsen;Andreas Kotsadam;Eivind Hammersmark Olsen;Tore Wig

  • Development aid and infant mortality. Micro-level evidence from Nigeria

    Andreas Kotsadam;Andreas Kotsadam;Gudrun Østby;Siri Aas Rustad;Andreas Forø Tollefsen

  • Does Informal Eldercare Impede Women's Employment? The Case of European Welfare States

    Andreas Kotsadam

  • Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa

    Ann-Sofie Isaksson;Andreas Kotsadam

  • Does personal contact with ethnic minorities affect anti-immigrant sentiments? Evidence from a field experiment

    Henning Finseraas;Andreas Kotsadam

  • A Field Experiment of Discrimination in the Norwegian Housing Market: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity

    Lisa Andersson;Niklas Jakobsson;Andreas Kotsadam

  • Does integration change gender attitudes? The effect of randomly assigning women to traditionally male teams

    Gordon B. Dahl;Andreas Kotsadam;Dan-Olof Rooth

  • Did the Murder of Theo van Gogh Change Europeans' Immigration Policy Preferences?

    Henning Finseraas;Niklas Jakobsson;Andreas Kotsadam

  • The Gender Gap in African Political Participation: Testing Theories of Individual and Contextual Determinants

    Ann-Sofie Isaksson;Andreas Kotsadam;Måns Nerman

  • Gender and overconfidence: are girls really overconfident?

    L. Dahlbom;A. Jakobsson;N. Jakobsson;A. Kotsadam

  • Do Laws Affect Attitudes? - An assessment of the Norwegian prostitution law using longitudinal data

    Andreas Kotsadam;Andreas Kotsadam;Niklas Jakobsson;Niklas Jakobsson

  • Exposure to female colleagues breaks the glass ceiling—Evidence from a combined vignette and field experiment

    Henning Finseraas;Åshild A. Johnsen;Andreas Kotsadam;Gaute Torsvik

  • Shame on you, John! Laws, stigmatization, and the demand for sex

    Andreas Kotsadam;Andreas Kotsadam;Niklas Jakobsson

  • Gender Equity and Prostitution: An Investigation of Attitudes in Norway and Sweden

    Niklas Jakobsson;Andreas Kotsadam

  • Trust, ethnic diversity, and personal contact: A field experiment

    Henning Finseraas;Torbjørn Hanson;Åshild Auglænd Johnsen;Andreas Kotsadam

  • The local socioeconomic effects of gold mining : evidence from Ghana

    Andrew L. Dabalen;Punam Chuhan-Pole;Andreas Kotsadam;Anja Karolina Tolonen

  • Mining and Local Corruption in Africa

    Andreas Kotsadam;Eivind Hammersmark;Carl Henrik Knutsen;Tore Wig

Frequent Co-Authors

Henning Finseraas
Henning Finseraas Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Bernt Bratsberg
Bernt Bratsberg University of Oslo
Oddbjørn Raaum
Oddbjørn Raaum University of Oslo
Thomas Hansen
Thomas Hansen Copenhagen University Hospital
Lori Heise
Lori Heise Johns Hopkins University

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