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Son Preferences and Education Inequalities in India
(2019-10)
We investigate the impact of son preferences in India on gender inequalities in education. We distinguish the impact of preferential treatment of boys from the impact of gender-biased fertility strategies (gender-specific ...
Omöjligt uppdrag. Om rättslig styrning och normkollisioner i skolans kompensatoriska uppdrag
(2019-09-30)
The thesis aims to analyze how two ideological concepts, “the individual” and “the collective”,
impact the Swedish school system from a legal point of view. On basis of the theoretical groundwork drawn up by professor ...
Not for you! The cost of having a foreign-sounding name in the Swedish private housing market
(2019-10)
Both immigration and a troubling housing deficit have increased rapidly in Sweden over the past 20 years. Today, up to 33 percent of the people living in the largest Swedish cities are immigrants. In this Internet-based ...
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 ...
Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
(2019-06)
We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting
parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and
post-birth components. We use three ...
Chinese aid and local ethnic identification
(2019-04)
Recent empirical evidence suggests that Chinese development finance may be particularly prone to elite capture and patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, ...
Hur konsumtionen digitaliseras
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2019-02)
Digital teknik håller radikalt på att förändra vår konsumtionskultur. Appar, QR-koder och ständigt mer avancerade mobiltelefoner, samt de digitala spår användningen av dem lämnar efter sig skapar nya konsumtionsbeteenden, ...
Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Political Affiliation, and Group Size
(2019-05)
The main objective of this paper is to strengthen the knowledge about the relationship between cooperation and political affiliation. For this purpose, I carry out an incentivized N-person prisoner’s dilemma experiment. I ...
Hur sjuk är demokratin?
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2019-01)
Lösningen på demokratiproblemet har i praktiken alltid varit att en elit skall styra i folkets namn och utan alltför mycket insyn från folket. Ingen kan ju ha något emot att saker görs för allas bästa, eller hur? Vi, folket, ...
Political Economy of Listing of Substances of Very High Concern in the European REACH Regulation
(2019-10)
The Candidate List of the European Union regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals—known as REACH— gives advanced information to industry and other stakeholders about substances ...