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Bitcoin: Unlicensed Gambling
Promoters claim that bitcoin is a new type of money, reduces transactions costs by abandoning intermediaries and will become a safe asset that they call “digital gold”. In this book, we dissect these…
Book
Publish date 7/4/2021
Vad finns det för anledning att vara med i facket?
Lagstiftning spelar en mindre roll för att reglera arbetsmarknaden i Sverige än i de flesta andra länder. I stället utmärks den svenska arbetsmarknadsmodellen av omfattande självreglering genom kollek…
Report
Publish date 1/27/2021
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
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
Bitcoin lacks a solid foundation as an international currency
For millennia, money has acted as a store of value as reducing transaction costs – crypto does neither
Op-Ed
Publish date 6/7/2021
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The Sharing Economy: Definition, Measurement and its Relationship to Capitalism
For the past decade, the sharing economy has not only grown but also expanded to cover a wide variety of different activities across the globe. Despite a lot of research, there is still no agreement o…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/25/2021
The Sharing Economy: Definition, Measurement and its Relationship to Capitalism
For the past decade, the sharing economy has not only grown but also expanded to cover a wide variety of different activities across the globe. Despite a lot of research, there is still no agreement o…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/8/2021
Test Scores and Economic Growth: Update and Extension
Research indicates that education quality – measured by test scores in international student surveys – predicts economic growth. In this paper, we extend previous findings up to 2016 and analyse test…
Working Paper
Publish date 10/1/2021
Education and Health: Long-Run Effects of Peers, Tracking and Years
We investigate two parallel school reforms in Sweden to assess the long-run health effects of education. One reform only increased years of schooling, while the other increased years of schooling but…
Journal Article
Publish date 10/12/2021
The View of Knowledge: An Institutional Theory of Differences in Educational Quality
This essay argues that the most crucial institution of any school system is its view of knowledge—from which virtually all other aspects of a school are derived: the content of its curricula, its peda…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/22/2022
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