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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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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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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...
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What is the cost of privatization for workers?
Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2018
The world is in the midst of a new wave of privatization, with record dollar amounts raised in both developed and developing countries.Using rich Swedish registry data covering two decades from the mid-1990s, we show that privatizations increased unemployment incidence by almost a fifth, and...
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The long-term effects of long terms: Compulsory schooling reforms in Sweden
Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2018
We evaluate the impact on earnings, pensions, and further labor market outcomes of two parallel educational reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by comparable amounts. We find striking differences in...
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