2025
Forskningsområden
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Visar 1-10 utav 16 Working papers
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2025:16
Just the right amount of caution? - Remote instruction and student performance in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study examines the impact of distance learning on educational outcomes for lower secondary school students in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic. We leverage variation in the implementation of r...
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2025:15
The effects of increasing compensatory resource allocation on student achievement
Substantial and persistent differences in learning outcomes between schools largely caused by school segregation is a recurrent issue in many countries and is seen as a threat against equality of oppo...
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2025:14
The R&D and innovation effects of firm-specific trade opportunities
Josefin Videnord
This paper explores how firm-specific trade opportunities affect R&D investments and innovative activities. To construct trade opportunities that are exogenous to firm-level decisions, I use the varia...
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2025:13
The impact of local supply of upper secondary field of study
Karin Edmark
This paper evaluates the impact on students’ educational and labour market trajectories of local supply variations in fields of upper secondary education in Sweden. It takes a broad approach and...
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2025:12
The effects of electronic monitoring on offenders and their families
Julien Grenet Hans Grönqvist Susan Niknami
Electronic monitoring (EM) has emerged as a popular tool for curbing the growth of large prison populations. Evidence on the causal effects of EM on criminal recidivism is, however, limited and it is ...
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2025:11
Women's labor market opportunities and equality in the household
We study how changes in couples’ relative wages affect the division of childcare. Using a nationwide wage reform that raised pay in the female-dominated teaching profession, we find that closing 2...
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2025:10
Processing macroeconomic signals: Voter responses to growth, unemployment, inflation and stock markets
Mikael Persson Love Christensen Jana Schwenk
Economic voting theory suggests that voters reward incumbents for strong economic performance and punish them for weak performance. However, this view often ignores the multidimensional nature of the ...
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2025:9
Bilingual caseworkers and on-the-job training: A pathway to integration?
Lillit Ottosson Ulrika Vikman
We study an active labor market program aimed at immigrants with very limited language skills. The program consists of a three-month on-the-job training program in a regular workplace, facilitated by ...
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2025:8
Optimal housing taxation with land scarcity andmaintenance: a Mirrleesian perspective
We study optimal housing taxation in a Mirrleesian framework where individuals differ in both labor productivity and land ownership. Housing services are produced by combining scarce land with structu...
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2025:7
Worker specialization and the consequences of occupational decline
Are workers with poor outside opportunities less responsive and more susceptible to negative demand shifts in routine occupations? To answer this, I create and estimate an occupation specialization in...