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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008

Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...

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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2015

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …

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Free to improve? The impact of free school attendance in England

Bertoni, Marco; Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel; Silva, Olmo - 2023

teaching philosophies: one follows a "no excuse" paradigm, while the other one adopts a "classical liberal", knowledge …

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Do Swedish Schools Discriminate against Children with Disabilities?

Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats; Karlsson, Karl - 2020

We present results from a field experiment in which fictitious parents to children with certain types of disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), make inquires to Swedish schools about admission for their children to the compulsory...

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Sweden's School Choice Reform and Equality of Opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - 2014

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows...

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Practice makes voters? Effects of student mock elections on turnout

Öhrvall, Richard; Oskarsson, Sven - 2018

Student mock elections are carried out in schools around the world in an effort to increase political interest and efficacy among students. There is, however, a lack of research on whether mock elections in schools enhance voter turnout in real elections. In this paper, we examine whether the...

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Gender grading bias in junior high school mathematics

Berg, Petter; Palmgren, Ola; Tyrefors, Björn - 2019

Admission to high school in Sweden is based on the final grades from junior high. This paper compares students' final mathematics grade with new data from a high school introductory test score in mathematics. Both the grades and the test are based on the same syllabus, but teachers enjoy great...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Personality - The Role of Occupational Choice

John, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2012

We analyze the role of personality in occupational choice and wages using data from Germany for the years 1992 to 2009. Characterizing personality by use of seven complementary measures, the empirical findings show that it is an important determinant of occupational choice. Associated with that,...

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Self-Evaluations and Performance: Evidence from Adolescence

Himmler, Oliver; Koenig, Tobias - 2012

A positive view of the self is often portrayed as a valuable asset in the sense that it can have performance enhancing properties. Using data on self-esteem - the most fundamental manifestation of positive self evaluations - and high school grade point averages of American students we produce...

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Human capital sorting: The "when" and "who" of sorting of talents to urban regions

Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - 2017

Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...

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