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How wage announcements affect job search - a field experiment
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-08)
We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much ...
Antifouling for leisure boats in the Baltic Sea. Mapping the legal situation - National Study: Sweden
(2015)
This report has been elaborated as part of the CHANGE research project
(http://changeantifouling.com/) funded by the BONUS programme and national
research funding institutions, in this case the Swedish Environmental ...
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 ...
The Development of Development Economics
(2016-04)
This paper discusses the historical roots of development economics and how it has changed over the last half century. We first identify the most important changes in orientation within development economics and discuss ...
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
(2016-06)
There is solid scientific evidence predicting that a large part of the developing world will suffer a greater incidence of extreme weather events, which may increase the incidence of displacement migration. We draw on the ...
Parallel imports and mandatory substitution reform: A kick or a muff for price competition in pharmaceuticals
(2011-04)
What has been the effect of competition from parallel imports on prices of locally-sourced onpatent drugs? Did the 2002 Swedish mandatory substitution reform increase this competition? To answer these questions, we carried ...
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 ...
The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
(2013-02)
Previous studies on improved cookstove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to adoption over time. We use ...
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 ...