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Essays on Culture, Institutions, and Economic Development
(2020-05-18)
Culture and institutions are important to understand individual behaviors and economic development. In this thesis, I study the origins of cultural divergence across societies, the emergence of private property rights, and ...
Commercialization Done Differently: How Swedish university incubators facilitate the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms
(2020-12-11)
This PhD thesis investigates how university incubators impact the formation of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) firms in Sweden, which is interesting due to its unusual institutional regime for commercializing ...
The Sustainability and Competitiveness of European Short-Sea Shipping
(2020-03-27)
Several factors could improve the environmental performance of European short-sea shipping (SSS) and enhance its competitiveness, and in this thesis, some of those factors are
explored. The purpose of this thesis is to ...
Does teaching school children about recycling reduce household waste?
(2020-02)
Reduced waste generation is a prioritized environmental policy objective in the EU as well
as worldwide. We perform a randomized controlled trial in Sweden with school children
aged 10-16 to evaluate an intervention ...
THE INDIVIDUAL WELFARE COSTS OF STAY-AT-HOME POLICIES
(2020-06)
This paper reports the results of a choice experiment designed to estimate the private welfare costs of stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is conducted on a large and representative sample of the ...
The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
(2020-05)
We examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed over the past decade in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate ...
Lyckad integration? Skönlitterära beskrivningar av invandringen i Sverige 1945-2017
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2020)
Inequality Aversion, Externalities, and Pareto-Efficient Income taxation
(2020-05)
Abstract
This paper analyzes Pareto-efficient marginal income taxation taking into account externalities induced through individual inequality aversion, meaning that people have preferences for equality. In doing so, we ...
Empirical Essays on Education and Health Policy Evaluation
(2020-05-13)
Chapter 1: Impact of School Peers from the Same Region-of-Origin on Endogamy and Work Segregation: Evidence from Sweden
This study estimates how the quasi-random variation in the proportion of school peers from the same ...
Krishantering i SMEs - en studie av Svenska SMEs hantering av covid-19 situationen
(MATIX, 2020)
För att studera när och hur SMEs i Sverige förstod innebörden och omfattningen av Covid-19 spridningen, vilken påverkan den fått på deras
verksamheter samt vilka åtgärder de vidtagit för att hantera situationen har 1000 ...