Current Projects
The project aims at deepening our understanding of the financial decisions made by immigrants in Sweden. The goal is to understand why immigrants have lower lifetime savings and what can be done to im…
Municipalities play a central role in Sweden, both within the welfare state and when it comes to the development of local enterprise. In this project we analyze municipal institutions with tools both…
Basic elements of the Swedish welfare state appeared already during the 1920s and 1930s. Yet, our knowledge about the influence the appearance of these welfare reforms has had on people's lives is lim…
It is well-known that people's family background plays a role for socioeconomic outcomes for adults. The importance of family background for the socioeconomic outcomes of individuals has decreased sub…
This project examines both how institutions safeguarding different types of freedom emerge and what the economic and cultural consequences of such institutions are. These themes will be addressed, in…
Tensions between urban and rural areas have been highlighted in Western democracies, one reason being that political opinions and voting patterns seem to differ between city and countryside in most co…
There have been many explanations for why Sweden went from being a poor developing country to one of the most developed countries in the world between 1860 and 1960. Few of these have pointed at polit…
In an era of significant immigration, integration is crucial. Society functions more effectively when individuals with foreign backgrounds participate in the economic, political, and social spheres al…
In recent years, discussions about stricter penalties and increased police resources to combat crime have intensified, leading to various reforms in Sweden's criminal policy and police. However, debat…
The Swedish police began in 2015 to publish reports identifying neighborhoods as "vulnerable".
A common argument against the economic theory that certain services are unsuitable for private providers is that the issues instead stem from inadequate expertise on the part of the contract issuer. W…
What are the long-term effects on students of including children with lower measured IQ in regular education? This project aims to investigate this question using unique data for cohorts born between…
This project advances two key areas: providing a comprehensive, long-term evaluation of the impact of unconditional cash transfers (UCT) and understanding the effect of interventions on children at va…
The project comprises two studies. The first examines how the 1986 Chernobyl disaster affected the orientation of innovation towards environmental technologies, using patent data and geographical vari…
This project investigates how school funding structures and teachers’ working conditions influence teacher turnover and student achievement, with particular emphasis on needs-based resource allocation…
Municipal politicians make decisions on the procurement of goods and services totaling up to SEK 1,000 billion annually, and they decide whether welfare services should be outsourced to private provid…
The project examines how local crime affects business activity, with a particular focus on retail. Geographically detailed crime data are linked to administrative records on firms and their employees.…
The project examines how labour market transformation affects crime. Using longitudinal individual data and quasi-experimental methods, the researchers follow groups affected by declining demand for l…
The project examines how direct and representative democracy affect growth, innovation and structural change in Swedish municipalities during 1919–1950. The researchers combine historical data on firm…
The project examines how teaching in separate groups, compared with inclusion in mainstream classes, affects students with substantial academic difficulties. It focuses on students in the lower part o…
The project examines staffing in the Swedish Armed Forces, focusing on the balance between voluntary service and conscription. The researchers study how wage setting affects recruitment and retention,…