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We use population administrative data from Sweden to study adherence to 63 medication-related guidelines. We compare …
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implies case fatality rates below 0.2 percent and a limit of less than 800 deaths per million for Sweden. We also characterize …
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service provider in Sweden to explore the economics facing such agents by conducting a natural field experiment over a 32 …
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In this paper we examine how an education policy intervention - the introduction of a comprehensive school in Sweden …
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preparation for military service in Sweden. Both age at test date and number of days spent in school vary randomly across …
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We examine the effects of a major Swedish educational reform, that increased the years of compulsory schooling, on mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the...
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Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...
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centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … identify the rise and fall of centralized wage-setting arrangements as a major factor in the evolution of Sweden's industry … accounted for about 40 percent of U.S.-Swedish differences in the industry distribution. The dissolution of Sweden's centralized …
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determinant of income for individuals within countries as diverse as Sweden and the United States. At a national level, however … growth among OECD countries. The conclusion comments on policy implications for Sweden based on the human capital literature …
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This paper examines the evidence on technology diffusion through trade in differentiated intermediate goods. Because intermediates are invented through costly research and development (R&D) investments, employing imported intermediates implies an implicit sharing of the technology that was...
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