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Demand effects of consumers’ stated and revealed preferences

Engström, Per; Forsell, Eskil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

Knowledge of how consumers react to different quality signals is fundamental for understanding how markets work. We study the online market- place for Android apps where we compare the causal effects on demand from two quality related signals; other consumers' stated and revealed preferences...

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Gender differences in shirking: monitoring or social preferences? Evidence from a field experiment

Johansson, Per; Karimi, Arizo; Nilsson, J Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

This paper studies gender differences in the extent to which social preferences affect workers’ shirking decisions. Using exogenous variation in work absence induced by a randomized field experiment that increased treated workers’ absence, we find that also non-treated workers increased...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee place¬ment policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Grönqvist, Hans; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...

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Businesses, Buddies, and Babies: Fertility and Social Interactions at Work

Asphjell, Magne K.; Hensvik, Lena; Nilsson, J. Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

This paper examines how fertility decisions are transmitted within the workplace. Informed by a simple real options model of timing of investments under uncertainty, we show that recent births among co-workers affect women's subsequent childbearing using populationwide matched employer-employee...

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Grönqvist; Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to …

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The Effect of a Student Aid Reform on Graduation: A Duration Analysis

Häkkinen, Iida; Uusitalo, Roope - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

In this paper we evaluate the changes in the times-to-degree at the Finnish universities in the 1990s. In particular, we evaluate the effect of the 1992 student aid reform that was intended to shorten the duration of university studies. We find that the student aid reform had only a modest...

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The study pace among college students before and after a student aid reform: some Swedish results

Avdic, Daniel; Gartell, Marie - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

In 2001, the Swedish system of student aid for college students was substantially re-formed; the grant-share of the … total aid was increased, students were allowed to earn more without a reduction in student aid, and the repayment schedule … efficiency, measured as the number of credit points achieved each semester. We use all program students with a first registration …

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Study achievement for students with kids

Hallberg, Daniel; Lindh, Thomas; Zamac, Jovan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …

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