IFN in the Press
IFN researchers are regularly interviewed by the media. International press clippings are found here, whereas Swedish and Scandinavian press clippings are found on our Swedish website.
Normas voluntarias: punto final para el experimento pandémico de Suecia
Lars Calmfors, IFN, is referred to in an article in La Nacion.
The paper writes about Sweden's Covid strategy:
"El miedo al virus y los consejos del gobierno para evitar interacciones sociales han tenido impacto en la demanda interna, dañando la confianza de los inversores y las empresas, dice Lars Calmfors, economista y miembro de la Real Academia de las Ciencias de Suecia.
"A los países con restricciones obligatorias les fue mejor que a nosotros", agrega Calmfors."
Fear of the virus and government advice to avoid social interactions have had an impact om domestic demand, damaging investor and business confidence, says Lars Calmfors, an economist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. "Countries with mandatory restrictions did better than us," adds Calmfors.
Covid-19: “Teríamos de atribuir um valor muito baixo às vidas perdidas para dizer que a estratégia sueca foi ‘economicamente lucrativa’”
Lars Calmfors, IFN and University of Stockholm, is interviewed by Portuguese paper Publico.
"O professor emérito de Economia Internacional da Universidade de Estocolmo, investigador do Instituto de Investigação de Economia Industrial e membro da Academia Real de Ciências da Suécia é crítico da estratégia da Suécia, mesmo do ponto de vista económico. Lars Calmfors aponta, no entanto, que os programas de apoio a empresas e agregados financiados pelo Governo funcionaram bem. E diz que em décadas de presença em debates públicos difíceis, nunca teve tantas reacções desfavoráveis."
The emeritus professor of International Economics at the University of Stockholm, a researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is critical of Sweden's strategy, even from an economic point of view. Lars Calmfors points out, however, that government-funded business and household support programs have worked well. And he says that in decades of presence in difficult public debates, he has never had so many unfavorable reactions.
Read the article ( in Portuguese)
A economia da Suécia não está mal, mas as dos vizinhos nórdicos estão melhores. O que correu mal na estratégia de Estocolmo?
Lars Calmfors, IFN, is interviewed by Observador:
The paper reports on Sweden's Covid strategy and its implications for the Swedish economy:
"PIB terá caído menos mas comércio está em dificuldades e taxa de desemprego não era tão alta desde 1998. Economista Lars Calmfors junta número de mortos à equação e fala em "prejuízo económico enorme”
GDP will have fallen less but trade is struggling and unemployment rate has not been so high since 1998. Economist Lars Calmfors adds death toll to the equation and speaks of "huge economic loss".
Long a Holdout From Covid-19 Restrictions, Sweden Ends Its Pandemic Experiment
Lars Calmfors, IFN, ist interviewed by the Wall Street Journal on Sweden's Covid-19 strategy:
He says he no longer recognises his country. According to Calmros, countries with stricter Covid measures than Sweden have done better economically.
La Suède, ce modèle qui ne se ressemble plus
Lars Calmfors, IFN, is interviewed by Les Echos on Sweden's view on the EU. Swexit is not on the Swedish Agenda, says Lars Calmfors:
"Le « Swexit » n’est pas à l’ordre du jour. « Les Suédois ont fait le chemin inverse des Britanniques, en devenant plus positifs à l’égard de
l’Union » rejointe en 1995, insiste Lars Calmfors. Cet économiste moustachu est celui qui avait présidé la commission ayant recommandé
un report de l’adhésion du royaume à la zone euro, finalement rejetée par référendum en 2003 et tombée dans les oubliettes depuis.
« Nous aimons surtout l’UE comme une zone de libre-échange qui facilite le commerce, reconnaîtil. Mais nous la souhaiterions aussi plus
ambitieuse dans sa politique climatique ou sur l’immigration, avec un partage plus équitabledes réfugiés. »"
Capital taxation: A survey of the evidence
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, and Spencer Bastani, affiliated to IFN, write about capital taxation in Vox EU.
"The research on optimal capital taxation has undergone large changes. For a long time, the conventional wisdom was that capital income should not be taxed, mainly due to the influential studies of Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976), Judd (1985), and Chamley (1986). These studies emphasised the costly distortions imposed by capital income taxation on individual savings decisions. In the last decades, however, several notable contributions have challenged these studies, noting that such distortions can be useful to counter other distortions, or to promote equity objectives.
The main argument for taxing capital income, and capital more generally, in this new generation of studies, is that labour income taxation can be a blunt instrument for redistribution when there is substantial heterogeneity in wealth and capital income among individuals with the same labour income. Such heterogeneity arises when one, realistically, assumes that taxpayers differ not only in terms of their labour earning ability (as emphasised by the traditional literature), but also in terms of other characteristics, such as inheritances received, their achievable rates of return on their investments, and their preferences for saving. The combination of labour and capital taxes is therefore able to achieve potentially more efficient redistribution than if labour income were taxed alone. "
Rökin fyrir tölulegum markmiðum um atvinnustig
Lars Calmfors, IFN, writes in Icelandic Vísbending on The case for numerical employment policy targets.
Lars Calmfors argues that numerical employment policy targets can help balance fiscal objectives and also strengthen the incentives for reformers that raise structural employment.
U.S. Presidential Election: The Psychology of Victory
Niclas Berggren and Henrik Jordahl, IFN, are referred to in Psychology Today.
"A recent study entitled, ‘The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it’, found that politicians on the right of the political spectrum, on average, look more beautiful, a finding replicated in Europe, the U.S. and Australia.
The authors, Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara argue that as beautiful people earn more, they are more likely to oppose redistribution and so tend to end up on the right of the political spectrum."
Why Sweden is on the verge of another tech revolution
Magnus Henrekson, IFN, is interviewed by The Daily Telegraph on Sweden's flourishing tech sector.
Why is Sweden so successful when it comes to tech companies? One of the explanations is Sweden's lack of wealth tax according to Magnus Henrekson:
"This means that people are accumulating wealth and if they make an exit and a lot of money, they have to search for other investment opportunities", he says.
We saved our economy in Sweden. But too many people died.
Lars Calmfors, IFN, writes about his views on the Swedish Covid strategy in Washington Post.
Lars Calmfors argues that we saved our economy, but too many people died. Other countries shouldn't rush to emulate our pandemic strategy.
"The jury is still out on how well Sweden copes with the pandemic in the longer run: Case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths fell to low levels in August and early September but are now rising again. Based on the numbers so far, however, it appears that Sweden’s failure to adopt a more cautious approach in the early phase of the pandemic caused an unnecessarily large number of deaths, most of them among the elderly. In my view, one would have to attach an unreasonably low value to their lives to conclude that the economic gains outweighed the human losses."
Sweden's less strict measures have helped the economy...but we will soon be facing difficult tradeoffs
Lars Calmfors, IFN, is interviewed by Times of India about his views on Sweden's Covid strategy:
When asked if governments need to offer more economic stimuli from time to time Lars Calmfors replies:
"Yes, they will probably have to do this, but the tradeoffs will become increasingly difficult. In the spring, policies were easy. It was just a matter of pumping out money to stave off an economic disaster without any need or any possibility of fine tuning. But we cannot do this for two-three years; measures will have to be better calibrated. For example, there would be huge social losses if we subsidise people to do nothing through various furlough schemes, which we as well as many other European countries have been doing. We should increasingly try to support activities that have good prospects for long-run expansion and new hires. But it will not be easy to find the right balance."
Senhorios discriminam casais homossexuais
Niclas Berggren,IFN, and Therese Nilsson, IFN and Lund University, are referenced to in Portuguese newspaper Ardina.
Their paper "Religiosity and discrimination against same-sex couples: The case of Portugal's rental market" studies discrimination against same-sex couples in the Portuguese rental market. A correspondence field experiment with different types of couples shows that there is a 26% lower probability of a positive response for male same-sex couples.
The case for numerical employment policy targets
Lars Calmfors, IFN, writes a column ion Vox EU on the case for numerical employment policy targets :
"All advanced economies will have to cope with both labour market and government debt problems after the Covid-19 crisis. Numerical employment targets may therefore have a role to play in many countries. They may help balance fiscal objectives, reducing the risk that consolidation efforts imply overly contractionary policies. At the same time, they could support these efforts by strengthening the incentives for reforms that raise structural employment. "
Assar Lindbeck, economist, 1930–2020
Assar Lindbeck, IFN, passed away on August 28th. Carl Hamilton writes his Obituary in the Financial Times:
"He had strong views on how economists should practise their craft and obtained inspiration from real world problems. Mathematical models could be useful, he believed, but only to serve and support the study of “real life”. Economists should not select economic problems because they suited a particular mathematical model. He wisely warned that such economists risked becoming “brilliant fools”."
No Todo Emprendimiento es Productivo
Magnus Henrekson, IFN, is interviewed by Foro on entrepreneurship. One of the questions is how one can tell if there is high-quality entrepreneurship in a country, to which Henrekson replies:
"In most cases, a high-income level tells there is high-quality entrepreneurship. Of course, there are other ways of having a high-income level, but poor countries don't usually have highly-productive entrepreneurship. They may have many entrepreneurs,but they have very little opportunity to grow, and their success is therefore very limited. Most of the wealthiest countries in the world are entrepreneurial, although there are some that are not so, such as Germany and Japan, who rather have very large companies. But there is something called intrapreneurship, which refers to the act of employees behaving like entrepreneurs within a company. Companies like BMW or Toyota would not have been as successful as they are if they did not promote entrepreneurship inside the company among employees. In countries where wealth has been built on natural resources, you don't really have the need to be entrepreneurial. They make money too easily. So they don't have to be innovative. If, for example, you find a huge amount of oil like Norway did in the late 1960s, then you become a very different country. Norway is today not as entrepreneurial as it used to be. /.../"
Read more ( in Spanish)
Coronavirus L'analisi Caso Svezia fa discutere, per molti ha funzionato
An article published in Rai News quotes Lars Calmfors, IFN, on the economical effects of Sweden's Covid-19 strategy:
Lars Calmfors, professore emerito di economia internazionale e ricercatore presso l'Università di Stoccolma, ha affermato che è possibile che la Svezia abbia fatto meglio di altri Paesi, ma che è ancora troppo presto per dirlo. "Abbiamo chiuso meno di altri paesi, il che potrebbe far pensare che abbiamo fatto un po 'meglio finora. Ma tutto dipenderà da ciò che accadrà in autunno: abbiamo ridotto abbastanza la diffusione dell'infezione o aumenterà di nuovo? Se aumenta, la nostra economia ne risentirà."
Lars Calmfors, Emeritus Professor of International Economics and researcher at the University of Stockholm, said that it is possible that Sweden has done better economically than other countries, but that it is still too early to say. " We have closed down to a lesser extent than other countries, it might be the case that we have done a little better so far. But it will all depend on what will happen in the fall: have we succeeded in reducing the spread of the virus or will it increase again? If it increases, our economy will suffer."
Read the piece in Terranostra News
Hat es Schweden doch besser gemacht? Firmen legen überraschend gute Abschlüsse vor
Lars Calmfors, IFN, is referred to in an article about the economic consequences of Sweden's Covid strategy, published in several Swiss newspapers.
"Eine Studie des britischen Analyseunternehmens Capital Economics stimmte bereits letzte Woche optimistische Töne an und bezeichnete Schweden als «Besten in einer schlechten Clique». Dies aufgrund der Prognose, dass das schwedische Bruttonationalprodukt 2020 nur 1,5 Prozent sinke, während es für Dänemark und Norwegen 3, die Schweiz 5 und die Eurozone 7,5 Prozent seien.
«Viel zu optimistisch», nannte das allerdings der angesehene schwedische Ökonom Lars Calmfors, die Prognose beruhe zu stark auf dem ersten Quartal. Calmfors und viele andere Konjunkturforscher sehen einen Rückgang für Schweden um rund 5 Prozent für 2020 – etwa in der Grössenordnung wie die Nachbarländer, aber besser als Frankreich, Grossbritannien oder Italien."
Sweden pays human and economic price for not locking down
Lars Calmfors, IFN and Stockholm University, is interviewed in a CNN report on the Swedish Covid strategy.
"I think the price paid in terms of lives lost has been too high", says Lars Calmfors.
„Ég gerði öllum ljóst að það var mjög rangt að gera þetta“
Lars Calmfors, IFN, is interviewed by the Icelandic newspaper Kjarninn on a political controversy. Lars Calmfors is one to the editors of the Nordic Economic Policy Review. When his successor was to be appointed, the well-known Icelandic scholar Thorvaldur Gylfason was suggested. However, the Icelandic Ministry of Finance opposed this appointment. Thorvaldur Gylafson is known to be an outspoken critic of previous Icelandic policies, that according to him, contributed to creating the Financial Crisis.
Lars Calmfors is very critical of the actions of the Icelandic Ministry of Finance:
"Lars Calmfors, a Swedish economics professor who was the editor of the NEPR scholarly journal, objected to the attitude of the Icelandic Ministry of Finance to Thorvald Gylfason. He says political arguments should have no bearing on the position." ( Translation from Icelandic)
Read the article here ( in Icelandic)
Zweden deed het anders – en voelt nu de pijn
Lars Calmfors, IFN, is interviewed by the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad about Sweden and the Swedish approach to the pandemic:
Lars Calmfors is critical to Swedish politicians and their way of dealing with the outbreak:
"Maybe it will finally force us to think about our actions in this crisis." "Politics sat in the back seat" Calmfors accuses Swedish politics of staying in the back seat during this crisis."
How Global Trade Can Survive Carbon Border Adjustments
Henrik Horn, IFN, writes about Carbon Border Adjustments in the Milken Review:
"Putting a price on carbon emissions in order to internalize the externality is the economists’ go-to prescription for addressing global climate change. So it’s ironic that another orthodox economics prescription for societal welfare — free trade — appears to stand in the way of implementing the textbook climate solution. But there just might be a way to thread the needle to allow market-based solutions to reach their full climate mitigation potential."
Coronavirus : la Suède s’inquiète des risques sanitaires d’une dépression économique
Magnus Henrekson, IFN, is interviewed by Le Monde on the ongoing debate in Sweden regarding the economic aspects of the Corona Crisis.
"Directeur du Research Institute of Industrial Economics à Stockholm, l’économiste Magnus Henrekson fulmine : « Lors de la crise financière, au début des années 1990, nous avons perdu 600 000 emplois en trois ans. Nous pourrions en voir disparaître autant en trois mois. » Pour lui, le confinement généralisé est une aberration : « Si on ne revient pas rapidement à la normale, des milliers d’entreprises vont faire faillite, les gens vont perdre leur emploi définitivement et il ne restera plus grandchose du secteur privé, ce qui va entraîner l’effondrement des recettes publiques. Il n’y aura plus d’argent pour financer les hôpitaux, ni pour aider les personnes qu’on veut protéger en se confinant. »"
"Director of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, economist Magnus Henrekson fulminates:" During the financial crisis in the early 1990s, we lost 600,000 jobs in three years. We could see the same amount of jobs disappear in three months "For him, the general confinement is an aberration:" If we do not return quickly to normal, thousands of companies will go bankrupt, people will lose their jobs definitively and there will not be much left of the private sector, which will lead to the collapse of public revenues. There will be no more money to finance hospitals, nor to help the people we want to protect by confining ourselves. "
Pourquoi les chiffres sur la montée des inégalités de Piketty sont contestés
French website Challenges is writing about an article on inequality that originally appeared in The Economist. They are quoting Daniel Waldenström, IFN:
"Selon Daniel Waldenström ( Institut de recherche d'économie industrielle à Stockholm), il n'existe de données fiables sur la répartition de la richesse que dans trois pays en dehor des Etats-Unis: au Royaume-Uni, au Danemark et en France."
( According to Daniel Waldenström ( Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm) there are reliable data on the distribution of wealth only in three countries outside the United States: in the United Kingdom, in Denmark and in France.")
Thatcher Warned Us To Go Slow On European Integration. Too Bad We Didn't Listen
Johan Wennström, IFN, writes a piece in Quillette about Margaret Thatcher's views on European Integration.
Les pays nordiques vent debout contre un salaire minimum imposé par l’Union européenne
Le Monde has interviewed IFN-researcher Per Skedinger about the nordic views on minimum wages for the EU.
"Pour l’économiste Per Skedinger, ce système « autorégulateur » présente l’avantage de la flexibilité : « Il permet de fixer différents types de revenus minimums, en fonction de l’âge, de l’expérience ou de la profession, ce qui produit des niveaux relativement élevés, comparé au reste de l’Union européenne. »"
Europäischer Mindestlohn Skepsis bei schwedischen Gewerkschaften
IFN researcher Per Skedinger is interviewed by German Deutschlandfunk about the Swedish view on minimum wages for the EU:
"Ein Mindestlohn auf EU-ebene gilt in Schweden nicht als wünschenwert, weil der die Autonomie der Tarifparteien bei der Festlegung der Löhne und Gehälter gefährden würde und weil man die EU für nicht hinreichend kompetent hält, um über solche Fragen zu entscheiden."
"A minimum wage at EU level is not desirable in Sweden because it would endanger the autonomy of the parties and because the EU is not considered to be sufficiently competent to decide on such issues."
Read more and listen to the report here:
If you want to protect Europe, prepare for trade war
Henrik Horn, IFN, is interviewed on the topic of Carbon Dioxide Border Tariffs by Politico:
“A border tariff will most likely provoke a strong reaction internationally,” said Henrik Horn, professor of international economics at Stockholm University and a fellow at the Bruegel think tank. “Just remember the aviation directive in 2008 when the EU wanted to impose a levy on flights which would lead to a form of extraterritorial taxation. The international reaction was so strong that the EU eventually gave up.”
Give fully market-based electricity markets a second chance
Germany is about to abandon the idea of at fully market-based electricity market, due to the potential problem of large arbitrage volumes. This is a valid concern, but there might be a solution to this problem, argues IFN researcher Pär Holmberg in an Op Ed piece published in Encompass Euorpe.
A reform strategy for an entrepreneurial Europe
Niklas Elert and Magnus Henrekson, IFN and Mark Sanders Utrecht University, are arguing for a reform strategy for an entrepreneurial Europe in a Comment published in Encompass Europe.
"The European project is threatened by a nationalist populism sweeping across the continent. At its roots lie a perceived lack of opportunity in Europe, which yields injustice and feelings of frustration and anger. To counter populism, the European Union needs to support those that challenge the status quo. This will also help to tackle the "innovation crisis" that is currently plaguing the EU. This crisis can be addressed by undertaking extensive reforms in several areas, with the aim of promoting innovative, economic growth that benefits everyone. "
Niclas Berggren and Therese Nilsson interviewed by Al-Ittihad Newspaper
IFN researchers Niclas Berggren and Therese Nilsson have been interviewed by Al-Ittihad Newspaper, based in United Arab Emirates. Niclas Berggren and Therese Nilsson are doing research on tolerance and social values. They are referring to their papers "Does Economic Freedom Foster Tolerance" and "Globalization and the Transmission of Social Values: The Case of Tolerance". When asked how to promote tolerance in a society, they reply:
– /.../ We believe the most important thing to institute is the rule of law, i.e. a high-quality, effective, non-corrupt and impartial legal system. Then our findings suggest that a policy securing low and stable inflation and policies that increase economic and social openness to other countries can increase tolerance as well."
The Madness of Crowds:Gender, Race and Identity – A Review
Johan Wennström, IFN, reviews The Madness of Crowds:Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray in Quillette.
Wanted: Perfect design for Europe’s carbon border tax
Henrik Horn, IFN, has written about carbon border taxes, he is interviewed by Politico.eu.
2019-09-04 Border carbon tariffs: giving up on trade to save the climate?
Henrik Horn, IFN,argues in World Commerce Review that here is no ineherent conflict between climate preservation and safeguarding the multilateral trading system. But it provides that four conditions are met. It also provides that a unilateral decision by the EU to introduce BCAs can only be the counterpart of ambitious unilateral measures by the European Union to meet the objective of being climate neutral by 2050.
Critics Say Rent Control Will Likely Destroy New York City
If anyone currently has a rent-controlled apartment in New York, it might end up costing more than what the person ever imagined of, argues The Industry Reporter. "Assar Lindbeck, []IFN and Stockholm Uiniversity] as Swedish economist had once mentioned that in several events rent control becomes the mostly used method of ruining a city without bombing."
CEO Incentives Shown to Yield Positive Societal Benefits
Lars Oxelheim, affiliated to IFN, argues in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation that "when a higher proportion of CEOs in a nation receive incentives, that nation’s GDP increases significantly in the following years, independent of the incentives monetary value".
How Sweden became more entrepreneurial than the US
Fredrik Heyman, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson, IFN, document in new study, presented at Vox, a 30-year decline in the share of young firms and their share of job creation in the US. In Sweden young firms have been more prominent in the business sector than in the US, and policies to encourage entrepreneurship are key to this.
New York City’s Rent Control Laws Are Erasing Property Rights and Worsening Housing Supply
Amy Swearer, The Heritage Foundation, argues in The Daily Signal that New York City's recently amended rent-stabilization laws "make the city’s affordable housing problem significantly worse, proving economist Assar Lindbeck’s [IFN] point that “next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities.”
Should liberals get behind rent control?
The Week argues that rent controls are making a comeback, even though "long dismissed by the economics mainstream as a premier example of inefficient and self-defeating policy". Assar Lindbeck, IFN and Stockholm University, is quoted saying that rent control is "the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing."
Warren's Private Equity Plan Has One Fatal Flaw
PE firms have been shown to improve the operational efficiency of the companies they own, writes Bloomberg.com, referring to a paper by Alexander Ljungqvist [HHS och affilierad till IFN] et al. showing that this happens in Europe and the Middle East.
Why Europe Axed Its Wealth Taxes
Education News by the Cato Institute is writing about wealth-tax, quoting Swedish research: "Magnus Henrekson [IFN] and Gunnar Du Rietz studied the history of the Swedish wealth tax. They found that 'people could with impunity evade the tax by taking appropriate measures,' including taking on excessive debt to buy exempted assets".
5 Real Solutions For The Troubled Cities Democrats Helped Cripple
Democrats have run America's most dangerous cities for decades. They have no answers, writes Joshua Lawson at The Federalist. He suggests to end rent control and quotes Assar Lincbeck, IFN and Stockholm University: “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”
Shaun Bailey: Rent controls will make a bad situation worse. It’s time to build.
Shaun Bailey, is a member of the London Assembly and the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London, writes at Conservative Home about rent control. "There’s a reason economist and housing expert Assar Lindbeck (IFN) once called rent controls “the most effective technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing”.
he Nordic Model May Be the Best Cushing Capitalism. Can It Survive Immigration?
“People’s willingness to continue paying the very high taxes needed to finance the social welfare programs is not something that can be taken for granted,” says Mårten Blix, IFN, in an interview with New York Times. “We are now beginning to see the emergence of some serious cracks.”
Price Controls Make Life Miserable for New Yorkers
New Yorkers has for generations complained about housing costs, explains the newsletter Infowars. "This happens in a city and state in which rent control laws have persisted for generations". Referring to Assar Lindbeck, IFN and Stockholm University: "'In many cases,' wrote Assar Lindbeck, 'rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing.'”
Dads Want More Paternal Leave Than They’re Getting, According To New Research
"Dads Want More Paternal Leave Than They’re Getting, According To New Research," writes the digital magazine Romper about research by Petra Persson, Standford University and IFN. "In fact, research shows that giving dads paternal leave can ultimately benefit both their partner's and child's health."
Study: Women’s Health Improves When They Have Help While Recovering From Child Birth
True Viral News argues that "While America continues on its punishing trajectory for women, Sweden is just doing its thing and crafting policies to achieve greater gender equality". TVN build the story on research by Petra Persson, Stanford University and IFN.
New Stanford study stresses benefits of paternity leave
Tech companies lead the way in granting fathers time off to boost mother's, baby's health, states Palo Alto Online, referring to a study by Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University, and Petra Persson, Stanford, and IFN. This study shows that when fathers can time off from work during the first year of the baby, it can not only benefit the mother's health, but the newborn baby's as well.
The Cold Truth About Sweden
Newsletter Commentary is commenting about socialism in the American public debate. "One can reasonably assume, as leading Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck [IFN] suggested in 2003, that societal norms in favor of work, or against living off handouts from others, originally emerged in societies where it was challenging to survive without working."
We Have A Valid Argument In Favour Of Grammar Schools – Juvenile Crime
The Continental Telegraph argues that being ‘socially’ close to criminal leaders strongly affects a person’s involvement in crime. The author refers to a study "The influence of leaders on criminal decisions" by Yves Zenou, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and affiliated to IFN, et al.
Researchers find Swedish dads have the greatest impact on mums’ health
Babyology is writing about research by Petra Persson, affiliated to IFN, et al who "have just used the Swedish experience to research how dads can impact mums’ health – and the results were pretty staggering". "It turned out that encouraging dads to take days off as needed during the first year of a baby’s life made a huge difference to mums’ health."