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Waitlisted! A policy analysis on childcare reform and its effect on female labour force.
(2014-10-10)The municipality Yokohama in Japan implemented a new child care reform in 2010, which in 2013 managed to eradicate the long child care waiting list in the area. This paper focuses on how an increase in child care supply ... -
WATER IS THICKER THAN BLOOD - a study on water privatisation in South Africa
(2013-08-23)As many countries have entered into privatisation schemes, the question of how and when privatisation can be successful is becoming increasingly important. Privatisation of water services has been a controversial and ... -
What about those zeroes - A Monte Carlo study of estimators for corner solution outcomes
(2014-05-12)Partially continuous and limited dependent variables are commonly observed in empirical research. This thesis focuses on evaluating Tobit-type models, which are designed for these situations, with specific regard to small ... -
What are the main determinants for companies to behave in sustainable way?
(2019-02-21)Using a novel dataset collected from a web survey sent out to Swedish large companies, this thesis examines whether institutional factors or basic economic factors are the main determinants for companies’ level of ... -
What causes fluctuations in the exchange rate? A quantitative study on the underlying variables that affects the Swedish Krona and Euro exchange rate
(2020-02-18)This paper focuses on analysing the SEK/EURO exchange rate and focuses on testing if 5 specific variables chosen based on previous research affect the SEK/EURO rate. The study uses monthly data from January 2000 to September ... -
What factors affect the capital structure of real estate firms? An analysis between listed firms on the European market
(2015-05-21)This thesis examines what factors that affect the capital structure of 84 listed real estate firms within the European Union for ten years during 2003-2012. To identify factors that affect capital structure a literature ... -
What factors motivate foreign aid allocation?A comparison of the aid allocation patterns of multilateral and bilateral donors
(2020-02-13)Aid allocation patterns have been measured and observed for over four decades and it has been noticed that the aid is allocated differently based on different factors like what kind of donor it is and how they measure the ... -
Why put that Seedling in the Ground - A Case Study of the TIST Tree Planting Program in Tamil Nadu India
(2015-02-20)This study examines a reforestation program, TIST (The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program), and its effects on farmer's tree planting behavior. TIST is funded by selling carbon credits on the Voluntary ... -
Will more funding generate better academic results in primary school - A quasi-experimental study of the centralization reform in Stockholm 2007
(2015-07-02)The fact that education plays a major part for wealth of nations has been known for quite some time, but the debate over the true relationship between school funding and student performance is ongoing in both academia ...