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Industrial wages in mid-1880s Sweden: estimations beyond Bagge’s Wages in Sweden. Data, source and methods
(2019-09)
Most researchers interested in Swedish wages during early industrialization
have used the seminal work Wages in Sweden from the 1930s as their point of
departure. Whereas the material in Wages in Sweden solidly tracks ...
Skrivhandledning: För doktorander i ekonomisk historia vid Göteborgs universitet
(2015-02)
This is a guide to writing a doctoral thesis at the Department for Economy
and Society, specifically directed at the unit for Economic History, at the University of
Gothenburg, Sweden. It is written in Swedish but also ...
On outdoor recreation in Swedish coastal and marine areas
(2013-04)
This paper is about outdoor recreation in Swedish coastal and marine areas and is part of a larger PHD
project study of Kosterhavet National Park (KNP) - the most recently introduced national park in
Sweden. Characteristic ...
The ecological footprint of early-modern commodities Coefficients of land use per unit of product
(2017-02)
Land availability and overseas trade have been central topics in economic history. The current paper contributes to this literature by setting the empirical foundations necessary for the calculation of the direct ecological ...
Instrumental variables based on twin births are by definition not valid
(2018-04)
Instrumental variables based on twin births are a well-known and widespread method
to find exogenous variation in the number of children when studying the effect on
siblings or parents. This paper argues that there are ...
Pushed into Unemployment, Pulled into Retirement: Facing Old Age in Gothenburg, 1923-1943
(2015-02)
Along with rapid growth and improved standards of living, the first decades of the twentieth
century saw the introduction of new technology and new ways to organize production. There are
contrasting views on what impact ...
Mortality among European settlers in pre-colonial West Africa: The “White Man’s Grave” revisited
(2016-08)
We have created the first longitudinal dataset following European employees of the English Royal African Company during their time in West Africa, 1683–1766. The mortality was catastrophically high with limited geographical ...
Too LATE for Natural Experiments: A Critique of Local Average Treatment Effects Using the Example of Angrist and Evans (1998)
(2019-11)
There has been a fundamental flaw in the conceptual design of many natural experiments used in the economics literature, particularly among studies aiming to estimate a local average treatment effect (LATE). When we use ...
The Gothenburg Population Panel 1915-1943: GOPP Version 6.0
(2015-02)
This paper presents the Gothenburg Population Panel (GOPP), a random sample of
individuals who were living in Gothenburg at some point in time during the period 1915-1943. The
individuals in the GOPP were searched for ...