’), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its … neighbors. Our evidence suggests that the labor markets of all countries were severely hit by the pandemic, although Sweden …

compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where … than a marginal phenomenon in Sweden. We do not find positive effects on school expenditures. Hence, the educational …

Norway imposed relatively strict measures, Sweden follows an extraordinarily lenient approach. We use an event-study approach … in which Sweden serves as a counterfactual to Denmark/Norway to estimate the measures' effectiveness. We estimate that in … the counterfactual in which Denmark/Norway implemented Sweden's more lenient measures the number of hospitalizations would …