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Social Networks and Immigrant Integration: Experimental Evidence from Sweden
Immigrant integration is key to realizing the potential of international migration in economic development. However, integration is often thought to be hampered by immigrants' limited social networks…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/30/2022
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
International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/17/2022
Moral Consensus and Antiestablishment Politics
Populism is a foreseeable reaction against the limited moral conception of society offered by both traditional left and right parties. Traditional parties have effectively rendered many voters homeles…
Journal Article
Publish date 7/26/2021
Den svenska skolans silverålder
Föreställningen om det tidigare skolsystemet som mekaniskt och auktoritärt lever i hög utsträckning kvar i vår tid. Men faktum är att den gamla svenska skolan var mycket välfungerande, skriver forskar…
Popular Science
Publish date 3/22/2022
Kunskapsskolans återkomst
Fram till omkring 2010 föll resultaten i svensk skola. Sedan dess har resultaten förbättrats kraftigt. I de internationella mätningar som görs – PISA, TIMMS, PIRLS och ICCS – förbättras resultaten och…
Report
Publish date 7/6/2022
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
Niclas Berggren will be presenting the study "Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism", authored with Alva Johansson and Therese Nilsson, at the University of Groningen.
Event
Publish date 11/4/2021
Electric Vehicles Rollout: Two Case Studies
We present and discuss evidence on electric-vehicle rollout in The Netherlands and Norway, two forerunners in this area. We demonstrate that the uptake of electric vehicles is essentially driven by fi…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/30/2021
Den moderna penningteorin synad
Vad är egentligen den moderna penningteorin, som till exempel gör gällande att den svenska migrationen på senare år är en vinstaffär? Nationalekonomen Andreas Bergh reder ut begreppen.
Popular Science
Publish date 3/29/2022
Do Schools Discriminate against Children with Disabilities? A Field Experiment in Sweden
This article presents the results of a field experiment in which fictitious parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) sent inquiries…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/1/2021
The Impact of Attending an Independent Upper Secondary School: Evidence from Sweden Using School Ranking Data
Since the 1990s, the Swedish education market has gone through a dramatic transformation due to the introduction of voucher-funded independent schools. We make use of data on school applications to co…
Journal Article
Publish date 9/7/2021
Distansundervisning slår mot studenterna
Att behålla en del av undervisningen inom högskolan på distans skulle försämra studenternas psykiska hälsa och förstärka klyftorna mellan olika socioekonomiska grupper. Det skriver Adrian Mehic och Ch…
Op-Ed
Publish date 5/23/2021
Revisiting Sweden's Comprehensive School Reform: Effects on Education and Earnings
We revisit a Swedish comprehensive school reform first evaluated by Meghir and Palme (2005). This reform increased years of schooling and abolished tracking. We extend the original analysis to the ful…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/29/2022
The pandemic and its implications on trust
Sweden has one of the highest trust levels in the world. At a recent policy seminar, research on how the pandemic has affected trust levels in Sweden was presented.
News
Publish date 2/22/2022
Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom
This project entails two interrelated core themes: Can institutions embodying economic freedom, contrary to the skepticism of some, contribute to fairness, trust, equality and responsibility; and can…
Research project