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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
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
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
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
Ballooning Bureaucracy: Tracking the Growth of High-Skilled Administration within Swedish Higher Education
Organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, needs to allocate labor for both production as well as internal administration. If this allocation is skewed towards internal administration, organizatio…
Working Paper
Publish date 8/19/2021
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
JAQ of All Trades: Job Mismatch, Firm Productivity and Managerial Quality
Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this question we develop a job-worker allocation quality measure (JAQ) by combining employer…
Working Paper
Publish date 4/1/2022
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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
Ideological Spillovers Across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump’s Presidential Election
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the ef…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/19/2022
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
Politisk kartellbildning som förklaring till Sverigedemokraternas framgång
Sverigedemokraterna har, i likhet med andra populistiska partier i Europa, vuxit kraftigt i de senaste valen. En trolig förklaring till denna uppgång kan finnas i att Sverigedemokraterna har erbjudit…
Book Chapter
Publish date 1/31/2022
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