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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
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
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…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/9/2022
Social Trust and Patterns of Growth
The association between social trust and economic growth is well-documented but how it works remains an open theoretical and empirical question. The paper uses growth accounting to break down sources…
Journal Article
Publish date 7/9/2022
The Fatal Conceit: Swedish Education after Nazism
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Sweden dismantled an education system that was strongly influenced by German, Neo-Humanist pedagogical principles in favor of a progressive, student-centered…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/29/2022
Civic Honesty and Cultures of Trust
Recent work in Cohn et al. (2019) shows that civic honesty and cooperative behaviour captured in a wallet-return experiment varies considerably across the world. Similarly, beliefs about social trust…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/9/2021
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions…
Working Paper
Publish date 11/15/2021
Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/4/2022
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
Does a District Mandate Matter for the Behavior of Politicians? An Analysis of Roll-Call Votes and Parliamentary Speeches
In most democracies, members of parliament (MPs) are elected either through a party list or by a district. We use a discontinuity in the German electoral system to investigate the causal effect of a d…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/10/2022
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
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
Ecosystem Services for Compensation of Artificial Turf Systems
Constructing football fields in Sweden with artificial turf has grown in popularity in recent years. Although the increase in playing time per year is a significant benefit of using artificial turf, t…
Report
Publish date 12/14/2021