Current Projects
The project aims at deepening our understanding of the financial decisions made by immigrants in Sweden. The goal is to understand why immigrants have lower lifetime savings and what can be done to im…
Municipalities play a central role in Sweden, both within the welfare state and when it comes to the development of local enterprise. In this project we analyze municipal institutions with tools both…
Basic elements of the Swedish welfare state appeared already during the 1920s and 1930s. Yet, our knowledge about the influence the appearance of these welfare reforms has had on people's lives is lim…
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…
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,…
It is well-known that people's family background plays a role for socioeconomic outcomes for adults. The importance of family background for the socioeconomic outcomes of individuals has decreased sub…
A study of the effects of employment protection – in Sweden and in other countries.
The aim of this project is to examine the effects of minimum wages on employment and other outcomes. A study of the effects of employment protection – in Sweden and in other countries.
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…
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…
Tensions between urban and rural areas have been highlighted in Western democracies, one reason being that political opinions and voting patterns seem to differ between city and countryside in most co…
There have been many explanations for why Sweden went from being a poor developing country to one of the most developed countries in the world between 1860 and 1960. Few of these have pointed at polit…
This project studies the role of the parties on the Swedish labor market in Sweden’s total defense during the Cold War.
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…