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.