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Holmlund, Helena; Nybom, Martin - 2023

Education policy holds the promise of breaking the strong ties between family background and socio-economic position by providing publicly accessible education for children of all backgrounds. However, the education system may also perpetuate social inequalities if well-off families are able to...

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How much does marital sorting contribute to intergenerational socio-economic persistence?

Holmlund, Helena - 2019

This paper investigates to what extent assortative mating contributes to intergenerational earnings persistence. I use an errors-in-variables model to demonstrate how pooling of partners' "potential" earnings affects intergenerational earnings persistence, and simulate persistence under...

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A researcher's guide to the Swedish compulsory school reform

Holmlund, Helena - 2020

This paper demonstrates how a natural experiment in education can be used to estimate causal effects. The Swedish compulsory school reform extended basic education gradually across cohorts and municipalities, allowing for a difference-in-differences analysis. The paper summarizes the literature...

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Preferences and opportunities in the marriage market: How comprehensive schooling made the wealthy marry down

Holmlund, Helena - 2022

This paper documents that a shift from a selective to a comprehensive education system had implications for marriage market outcomes. By exploiting an education reform in Sweden, I show that comprehensive education reduced assortative mating both because children from poor backgrounds started to...

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Education and equality of opportunity: What have we learned from educational reforms?

Holmlund, Helena - 2016

Equality of opportunity has been one of the central ideas governing education policy in the Nordic welfare state. This paper takes its starting point in the shared history of educational reform in the Nordic countries, and presents evidence that the comprehensive school reforms that implied a...

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Evolving absorptive capacity : the mediating role of systematic knowledge management

Dabić, Marina; Vlačić, Ernest; Ramanathan, Usha; … - In: IEEE transactions on engineering management : EM 67 (2020) 3, pp. 783-793

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Evaluating R&D projects in regulated utilities : the case of power transmission utilities

Garces, Edwin; Daim, Tugrul U.; Dabić, Marina - In: IEEE transactions on engineering management : EM 70 (2023) 2, pp. 533-553

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2020

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We show that … prohibiting killer acquisitions strictly reduces the variety of innovation projects. By contrast, we find that prohibiting other … acquisitions only has a weakly negative innovation effect, and we provide conditions under which the effect is zero. Furthermore …

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2021

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a … foundation for the analysis of acquisition policy. We show that prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative innovation effect …

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2023

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a …, prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative overall innovation effect. We provide conditions determining the size of the effect …

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