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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution : Reply

Dahlberg, Matz - 2014

In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz - 2014

municipalities throughout Sweden during the period 1985-94 to isolate exogenous variation in immigrant shares. We match data on …

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The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes – Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden

Wondratschek, Verena - 2014

This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice and competition among public schools as well as through a large-scale introduction of private schools. We estimate the effects of school choice and competition, using precise...

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Sweden's School Choice Reform and Equality of Opportunity

Edmark, Karin - 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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Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Mortality – Evidence from Sweden

Fischer, Martin - 2014

-out of a reform leading to one extra year of compulsory schooling in Sweden. In 1936, the national government made a seventh …

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Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man : Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Besley, Timothy J. - 2014

Efforts to increase female political representation are often thought to be at odds with meritocracy. This paper develops a theoretical framework and an empirical analysis to examine this idea. We show how the survival concerns of a mediocre male party leadership can create incentives for gender...

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Preferential Voting, Accountability and Promotions into Political Power : Evidence from Sweden

Folke, Olle - 2014

Preferential voting has been introduced in a number of proportional election systems over the last 20 years, mainly as a means to increase the accountability of individual politicians. But most of these reforms have been criticized as blatant failures. In this paper, we discover a genuinely new...

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Taxation of Real Estate in Sweden (1862–2013)

Stenkula, Mikael - 2014

This paper examines the development and role of the real estate taxation in Sweden during the period between 1862 and … 2010. Real estate has historically been taxed at both the local and state levels in Sweden. The importance of real estate … taxation in Sweden is nevertheless difficult to assess directly because of the limited availability of data and the specific …

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Bailing on the Car That Wasn't Bailed Out : Bounding Consumer Reactions to Financial Distress

Huse, Cristian - 2016

This paper examines how consumers react to the financial distress of durable goods manufacturers by looking at the Swedish new car market. We employ a difference-in-differences matching methodology whereby we compare sales of carmaker Saab with those of a carefully constructed control group of...

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The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure

Durevall, Dick - 2019

the present day in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hence, in contrast to previous studies, we evaluate the validity of … Wagner's Law between roughly 1860 and the late 1960s in Sweden, and the 1970s in the UK. This can be traced to the formation …

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