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From Epidemic to Pandemic: Did the COVID-19 Outbreak Affect High School Program Choices in Sweden?
We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our analysis exploits the fact that the admission process consists of two stages: a…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/29/2021
Political Institutions and Academic Freedom: Evidence from Across the World
There is scant systematic empirical evidence on what explains variation in academic freedom. Making use of a new indicator and panel data covering 64 countries 1960–2017, we investigate how de facto a…
Working Paper
Publish date 5/19/2021
Ballooning Bureaucracy: Tracking the Growth of High-Skilled Administration within Swedish Higher Education
Organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, needs to allocate labor for both production as well as internal administration. If this allocation is skewed towards internal administration, organizatio…
Working Paper
Publish date 8/19/2021
Lifelong Learning and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Sweden
We study the relationship between adult education and training (AET) and employment in Sweden. Exploiting rich data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, and using…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/20/2022
Coronapandemin, arbetsinkomsterna och välfärdssystemets skyddsgrad. Befolkningens inkomstutveckling under 2020
Coronapandemin har fått stora konsekvenser för samhället i stort och för enskilda personer och företag. Det är både ett resultat av smittspridningen i sig och av de åtgärder som vidtagits för att han[…
Report
Publish date 3/21/2022
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Graduate Student
IFN Researcher
Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Refugee Integration: An Experimental Study
We study the causal effects of previous experience and language skills when newly arrived refugees in Sweden apply for job openings by means of a field experiment. Applications were sent from randomly…
Working Paper
Publish date 8/11/2021
Affiliated Researcher
Does Precise Case Disclosure Limit Precautionary Behavior? Evidence from COVID-19 in Singapore
Limiting the spread of contagious diseases can involve both government-managed and voluntary efforts. Governments have a number of policy options beyond direct intervention that can shape individuals…
Journal Article
Publish date 12/8/2021
The Global Logistic Chain Under Siege in a Post-Covid Era
Based on historical analogies, we emphasize a connection between financial crises and technological shifts that calls for a structural economic transformation. Political pressures related to this stru…
Book Chapter
Publish date 12/13/2021
The Impact of Stay-at-Home Policies on Individual Welfare
This paper reports the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate the private welfare costs of stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is conducted on a large and repres…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/16/2022
IFN Researcher
Unconstrained Trade: The Impact of EU Cage Bans on Exports of Poultry-Keeping Equipment
This study evaluates the impact of conventional cage bans for laying hens in the EU on exports of poultry-keeping equipment. Using detailed data on international trade in poultry-keeping equipment com…
Working Paper
Publish date 12/13/2021
IFN Researcher
Late Colonial Antecedents of Modern Democracy
Some of the most contested questions in political science and political economy revolve around the conditions under which democratization is likely to happen and when democracy becomes a stable instit…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/24/2021
Graduate Student