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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 ...
Jordnaturernas fördelning i Sveriges län år 1700. En rekonstruktion, samt en jämförelse med förhållandena vid 1500-talets mitt
(2020-08)
From the mid-16th to the early 20th century, Swedish farms were divided in
three cadastral categories: tax, crown and exempt land. In 1700, each category made up
for about a third of the farms, but precise information ...
The role of demand for regional development – Green transformations in the food industries in Scania and Värmland
(2021-10)
Research on regional transformation typically sees regional economic change as an outcome
of innovation and knowledge creation processes. The role of demand, however, has received little attention so far. In this paper, ...
From sedentary behaviors to sedentary moments: what constitutes and shapes children's activities and performances at home
(2022-11-07)
The study of children’s sedentary behavior has grown exponentially in the last few decades due to the associations between sedentary behavior and various negative health outcomes and to concerns about children’s increasing ...
Did industrialization improve the skill composition of the population? Evidence from Sweden, 1870 to 1930
(2024-03)
This paper documents the changing skill composition during industrialization
in Sweden using population censuses and HISCO/HISCLASS scheme. The results
reveal a general shift from unskilled to more-skilled occupations, ...
Skill Premium in Sweden, 1900–1950
(2024-04)
This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials between skilled and
unskilled workers in Sweden throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using
newly digitized data on income taxes, this paper demonstrates ...
Beyond the private car: Managing sustainable mobility in everyday life
(2024-04-19)
It is increasingly recognized that private car use needs to be reduced, alongside spatial
planning solutions and vehicle development, to realize a sustainable mobility transition. But
the fact that the organisation of ...
The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency - Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire
(2024-04)
The prevailing literature on global state capacity suggests that: 1) Europe was
pulling ahead of other regions in the early modern period, and 2) state capacity in this
period was mostly dedicated to the purposes of ...