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2018-04-18
On Wednesday SNS, Centre for Business and Policy Studies, presented a report written by Therese Nilsson, IFN and Lund University, and Martin Karlsson, University of Duiburg-Essen. The researchers have studied the introduction of free infant care in Sweden in the 1930s. Their research shows that prenatal and infant care reduced the risk of infant death by 24 percent. It was especially children of single mothers and children in families who previously lost a child before one year of age who benefited from the care.
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2018-04-16
Timbro, a think tank with the mission "to build opinion in favor of market economy" has for the first time during three weekends organized an education in economics. The participants have learned about practical economic policy and economics research "relevant to the economic policy debate". Five of the lecturers were IFN researchers. Henrik Jordahl was first out and lectured on profit in the public sector. Andreas Bergh lectured on "The capitalist welfare state". Magnus Henrekson spoke of entrepreneurship, Gabriel Heller Sahlgren lectured on "A functioning school market" and Pär Holmberg about the Swedish electricity market.
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2018-04-11
On Wednesday Magnus Henrekson participated on a round table discussion and presented the conclusions in the book of Kunskapssynen och pedagogiken (Knowledge and Educational Studies) (Dialogos), of which he is editor and co-author. A presentation was also made by Ralph Townsend, former Rector of Winchester College – Britain's oldest boarding school – and Staffan Erlandsson, School Director of Österåkers Municipality. The seminar was organized by Ebba Braheskolan in Nacka and the real estate company Kvalitena.
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2018-04-05
Niclas Berggren, Andreas Bergh, Christian Bjørnskov and Shiori Tanaka have employed data from 29,000 immigrants in the European Social Survey and found evidence that the persistence of life satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from formerly communist countries. They also find that persistence for second-generation immigrants is similar but weaker than for their parents.
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2018-03-29
We wish all visitors to this web site Happy Easter!
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2018-03-28
Henrik Jordahl, IFN, and Karin Edmark, Stockholm University and affiliated to IFN, are two of the authors the report "Istället för vinstförbud – bättre reglering av välfärdsföretag" (Fores) (Instead of a Ban on Profits – Better Regulation of Welfare Companies". Henrik Jordahl has studied whether companies in the welfare sector are "cherry-picking", for example, accept students with few problems or patients with more uncomplicated diseases. "Existing Swedish studies do not indicate that cherry-picking is a major problem in the welfare sector," Jordahl said. It is largely housing segregation that drives segregation in schools, Karin Edmark explained. She suggested, among other things, that the size of school vouchers be weighted according to the students' socio-economic background.
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2018-03-27
On Monday, Magnus Henrekson and Louise Johannesson presented the study Born Globals – Facts and Wishful Thinking (Karl-Adam Bonniers Stiftelse), which they wrote in cooperation with Shon Ferguson. All three are researchers at IFN. They explain that the government is now implementing financial support programs specifically aimed at born globals. But, the researchers write, a rapid internationalization of businesses might result in fewer, not more jobs. And at worst, the government programs will rush promising companies out into the world before they are ready.
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2018-03-26
IFN researcher Louise Johannesson has received her Ph.D. in economics from Örebro University, with the dissertation Settling Disputes at the World Trade Organization. The thesis deals with issues related to dispute resolution within the World Trade Organization. Louise Johannesson started out as a research assistant at IFN and was affiliated to the institute during her time as a PhD student. She will continue to be affiliated to IFN. At the beginning of April she begins an employment at the OECD in Paris.