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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
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
Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts th…
Journal Article
Publish date 11/15/2021
Customer and Worker Discrimination Against Gay and Lesbian Business Owners: A Web-Based Experiment among Students in Sweden
We examined customer and worker discrimination against gay and lesbian business owners using a web-based experiment conducted at a Swedish university campus. Participants (N = 1,406) were presented wi…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/8/2022
Grading Bias and the Leaky Pipeline in Economics: Evidence from Stockholm University
We estimate a substantial female grade gain when being graded anonymously compared to male students in 101-macroeconomics courses. Females graded anonymously are more likely to continue with economics…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/28/2022
Affiliated Researcher
IFN Researcher
What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?
We use rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study the lack of women among CEOs. A comprehensive battery of graduates’ characteristics explains 40% of the gender…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/18/2016
What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?
We use rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study the lack of women among CEOs. A comprehensive battery of graduates’ characteristics explains 40% of the gender…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/15/2022
IFN Researcher
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
Affiliated Researcher
IFN Researcher
Decomposition of Air Pollution Emissions from Swedish Manufacturing
Starting from the '90s, Swedish manufacturing output has been constantly growing, while emissions of some major air pollutants have been declining. This paper decomposes manufacturing pollution emissi…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/22/2022
IFN Researcher
Economic Freedom and Antisemitism
We examine how variation in antisemitism across countries can be explained by economic freedom. We propose two mechanisms. First, the more economic freedom, the greater the scope of market activities.…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/4/2021
Are People Fussy About Who They Work With? An Experimental Test of Becker’s Coworker Discrimination Hypothesis
We used an experiment to investigate whether people’s decisions over employment opportunities are affected by the ethnicity and sex of their potential future coworkers. University students (N = 1,406)…
Journal Article
Publish date 12/22/2021
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