Artiklar på engelska

Vi undersöker vilka bakgrundsfaktorer i föräldrarnas hemländer som samvarierar med tolerans mot homosexuella hos andra generationens invandrare. Enligt resultaten påverkas denna tolerans negativt av a…

Vissa hävdar att politiker genomför marknadsliberala reformer vid kriser för att ”köra över” folket. Vi finner dock att reformer som minskar statens storlek, stärker rättsstaten, ökar den ekonomiska ö…

While the United Nations and NGOs are pushing for global judicialization of economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCRs), little is known of their consequences. We provide evidence of the effects of…

Vad förklarar statsskuldens storlek? I denna studie visar vi att en hittills förbisedd faktor är av betydelse – hur reglerade marknader är. Regleringar är positivt relaterade till statsskuldens storle…

Vi finner att när lagstiftningen blir mer jämlik för en minoritet påverkas den stora allmänheten antingen inte alls i sin tillfredsställelse med livet eller i positiv riktning (när samkönade par får g…

Vad bestämmer hur lyckliga människor är? Vi använder oss av nya data om homosexuella mäns livskvalitet i 110 länder. Forskarna finner att lika rättigheter är viktigast för hög livskvalitet. Välstånd,…

Enligt tidigare forskning underlättar tillit människor emellan politiska reformer. I denna studie visar vi att tillit underlättar reformer genom att göra olika politiska hinder mindre bindande. Vi fin…

Forskarna studerar varför nätverk uppstår och analyserar beteenden inom dessa, med fokus på nätverkens struktur. Med modellerna förklaras varför sjukdomar sprider sig i nätverk eller varför många indi…

Vi finner att högerpolitiker ser bättre ut än vänsterpolitiker i Europa, USA och Australien. Då människor som ser bra ut tjänar mer motsätter de sig omfördelning och sympatiserar med högern. Högerpoli…

Tolerance is a distinguishing feature of Western culture. Still, it varies between and within countries, as well as over time, and irrespective of whether one values it for its own sake or for its ben…

Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogeno…

Two leading scholars of the 20th century – Hans Kelsen and James Buchanan – both suggested that belief in an objective morality entails a disparaging attitude towards political and individual freedom.…

Despite significant progress towards the Millennium goals, more than one billion people live on less than 1.25 US dollars per day. Previous research suggests that globalization stimulates poverty redu…

Many countries have undertaken central-bank independence reforms, but the years of implementation differ. What explains such differences in timing? This is of interest more broadly, as it sheds light…

We investigate identity issues to explain differences in school performance between students of different races. Using a unique dataset of friendship relationships between students in the US, we show…

This paper investigates recent claims that ‘neoliberal’ policies and reforms are associated with higher homicide rates and other types of crime. Using a panel of the 50 US states observed between 1981…

This paper studies the population dynamics of preference traits in a model of intergenerational cultural transmission with cultural leaders who compete for oblique socialization. We show that by addin…

This paper analyzes the relationship between crime and agglomeration where the land, labor, product, and crime markets are endogenously determined. Our main theoretical findings are the following: (i)…

The study develops a simple model where workers can obtain a job through either their strong or weak ties. It shows that increasing the time spent with weak ties raises the employment rate of workers.…

This paper seeks to estimate the economic growth effect of constitutional provisions for property rights protection. It does so using the unique situation in formerly communist countries in Central an…

We generalize the discussion of the relevant determinants of happiness by asking the question if the same factors, more specifically the same institutional factors, affect happiness and misery. Focusi…

Good health is crucial for human and economic development. In particular poor health in childhood is of utmost concern since it causes irreversible damage and has implications later in life. Recent re…

Globalization and the transmission of social values: The case of tolerance Tolerance – respecting those who are different – is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where a pot…

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth d…

We study how the quality and instability of institutions and policies affect economic growth in 35 European countries. While stability entails valuable predictability, instability can reflect reforms…

I establish a positive relationship between family ties and civic virtues, as captured by disapproval of tax and benefit cheating, corruption and a range of other dimensions of exploiting others for p…

We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more peopl…

This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European countries with ancestry from across the world are studied. Individuals are examin…

Tolerant societies seem to function better than nontolerant societies both economically and socially. This makes it worthwhile to identify ways to stimulate tolerance. While previous research indicate…

We consider a model where the criminal decision of each individual is affected by not only her own characteristics, but also by the characteristics of her friends (contextual effects). We determine wh…