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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
A Time to Plot, a Time to Reap: Coups, Regime Changes and Inequality
A vast economic literature examines the welfare gains and distributional consequences of economic reforms, while much less is generally known on the relationship of inequality and forced regime change…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/30/2021
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…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/17/2022
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing
Formal institutions, e.g., regulations, are considered crucial determinants of entrepreneurship, but what enables regulatory change when there is a regulatory void, meaning entrepreneurship clashes wi…
Working Paper
Publish date 3/24/2022
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing
We document the time it took for ridesharing to become legalized at the state level across the United States following its local (and often illegal) rollout. States with greater regulatory freedom pas…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/21/2022
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
Coups, Regime Transitions, and Institutional Consequences
Coups and regime transitions are events that typically are intended to change the basic institutional framework of a country. Which specific institutions change and the consequences of these changes n…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/4/2021
Schumpeterian Entrepreneurship: Coveted by Policymakers but Impervious to Top-Down Policymaking
Differentiating various types of entrepreneurs provides clues to the puzzle of why top-down policies often fail to create Schumpeterian entrepreneurship and the ecosystems where it thrives. Schumpeter…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/1/2022
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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
Daniel Waldenström participates in Tylösand Summit
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, is one of the participants in this year's SNS Tylösand Summit: Economic policy in the covid world and beyond.
News
Publish date 8/20/2021
Daniel Waldenström interviewed on inequality
IFN researcher Daniel Waldenström is interviewed in French Polytechnique Insights on the much-debated topic of economic inequality.
News
Publish date 2/15/2022