Research interests:
Education, primarily the effects of school choice; taxation, especially the effects of corporate taxation on small businesses.
Among the questions that Karin Edmark tries try to answer with her research:
- How will free school choice affect student performance?
- How important is the choice of high school education (gymnasium) for later success in the labor market?
- Does the tax system affect SME businesses?
New research
Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply
Matz Dahlberg, Karin Edmark and Helene Lundqvist
Karin Edmark defended her thesis "Strategic Interactions among Swedish Local Governments" at Uppsala University in 2007. Her research is mainly empirically oriented, and within the areas of economics of education and public economics.
In the area of public economics Karin Edmark has studied which factors affect municipality decision making; for example whether municipalities take strategic considerations when they decide on taxes and expenditures.
Karin Edmark’s current research projects study the effects on choice and competition within the educational sector, and taxes and entrepreneurship.
Publications
"The choice of organizational form by closely-held firms in Sweden: tax versus non-tax determinants ", (co-author: Roger Gordon), Industrial and Corporate Change, 22:219-243, 2013. Downloadable WP-version: "Taxes and the Choice of Organizational form of Entrepreneurs in Sweden"
"Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution", (with Matz Dahlberg and Heléne Lundqvist), Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 120(1):41-76. Downloadable WP-version: "Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution"
"Migration Effects of Welfare Reform", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111(3):511–526. Downloadable WP-version: "Effects of Work reqirements on Welfare Migration"
"Is there a "Race-to-the-Bottom" in the Setting of Welfare Benefit Levels? Evidence from a Policy Intervention" (with Matz Dahlberg), Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92:1193–1209. Downloadable WP-version:"Is there a "Race-to-the-Bottom" in the Setting of Welfare Benefit Levels? Evidence from a Policy Intervention"
"Identifying Strategic Interactions in Swedish Local Income Tax Policies" (with Hanna Ågren), Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(3):849–857. Downloadable WP-version: "Identifying Strategic Interactions in Swedish Local Income Tax Policies"
"Unemployment and Crime: Is There a Connection?", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107(2):353–373. Downloadable WP-version: "The Effects of Unemployment on Property Crime: Evidence from a Period of Unusually Large Swings in the Business Cycle"
"Strategic Interactions among Swedish Local Governments", Doctoral thesis, Uppsala Universitet, 2007.
Working papers
"Is Welfare Dependency Inherited? Estimating the Causal Welfare Transmission Effects Using Swedish Sibling Data", (co-author: Kajsa Hanspers), Working paper 894, The Research Institute of Industrial Economics". Downloadable WP-version: "Is Welfare Dependency Inherited? Estimating the Causal Welfare Transmission Effects Using Swedish Sibling Data"
Fattigdom i folkhemmet - från socialbidrag till självförsörjning, (co-authors Matz Dahlberg, Jörgen Hansen and Eva Mörk), Working paper 2009:4, The Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (SNS välfärdsråds rapport 2008)
"Strategic Competition in Swedish Local Spending on Childcare, Schooling and Care for the Elderly", Working paper 2007:22, The Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation.
Swedish publications
"Arbetslöshetens effekter på brottsligheten", Ekonomisk Debatt, 2002:5
"Skattekonkurrerar svenska kommuner?", Ekonomisk Debatt, 2007:1
Fattigdom i folkhemmet – Från socialbidrag till självförsörjning, SNS Välfärdsråds rapport 2008, editor: Matz Dahlberg.