during the week after this birthday. We do not, however, find that harsher punishment reduces the crime rate permanently …” in the sense that more crimes were committed during the week prior to a 21st birthday, followed by a reduction in crime …

on political attitudes. This result holds for a variety of political attitudes and for both Sweden and the United States. …

This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …

Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … surge in capital gains-driven inequality in Sweden since the 1980s. While there are no evident changes in terms of who earns …

We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …

industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong …

This paper discusses a number of questions with regard to Sweden's economic and political development: How did Sweden … become rich? What explains Sweden's high level of income equality? What were the causes of Sweden's problems from 1970 to … 1995? How is it possible that Sweden, since the crisis of the early 1990s, is growing faster than most EU countries despite …

We use exceptionally rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study women's career …