Completed Projects
The project empirically studies how cultural attitudes like trust are formed, how norms change, and how they affect the use of social insurance. The study also analyses how these attitudes affect entr…
This project focuses on whether globalization affects a willingness to teach kids tolerance; how political legitimacy influences the growth effects of government size; how social trust relates to how…
This project aims to identify causal relationships between social attitudes and economic outcomes, both on the country level and on the individual level. Economic outcomes are defined as, e.g., econom…
The project has three overarching purposes. One is to investigate how globalization affects growth-related social attitudes like trust, tolerance and religion. A second purpose is to look at how forma…
The overall purpose of this research program is to study the welfare state from an evolutionary point of view.
A good society is characterized by, e.g., tolerance, freedom and growth. Tolerance, because tolerance implies respect for minorities and a basis for co-existence, even if people differ in various dime…
The need to design aid policies that help developing countries reach the SDG targets creates demand for highly specific, yet generalizable, research on aid effectiveness. The aim of the project is to…
This project focuses on women’s health and welfare in developing countries. We investigate the persistence and determinants of a number of women hurting customs, such as early marriage, teen-age ferti…
Many significant Swedish school reforms in the last decades have been carried out in concert between the Left and the Right. How have these reforms affected schools, teachers, and pupils? A study of t…
The purpose of the project is to better understand how political and economic turbulence shapes people’s attitudes towards others. Such knowledge can help to avoid outcomes that increase intolerance,…
This project studies the role of the parties on the Swedish labor market in Sweden’s total defense during the Cold War.
This research project analyzes the relationship between debt and mental health. The project aims at identifying whether the relationship between debt and mental health on the individual level is causa…
A study of the effects of employment protection – in Sweden and in other countries.
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…
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted shortcomings of standard epidemiological models in accurately predicting the spread of the virus. This, in turn, undermined the ability to conduct reliable policy ana…