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23 November, 2022

The social values of newly arrived immigrants in Sweden

Plos One Abstract Concerns have been raised that immigrants coming to Europe bring fundamentally different social values, affecting the more liberal receiving societies negatively. However, the topic of

Type of publication: Journal articles | Vartanova, Irina , , Tibajev, Andrey, Puthoopparambil, Soorej & Birgitta Essén Strimling, Pontus , , Tibajev, Andrey, Puthoopparambil, Soorej & Birgitta Essén
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25 October, 2022

Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab

Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 206, 2022. Abstract We experimentally test theoretical predictions on equilibrium selection in a two-player coordination (investment) game. Through a minimal visual vari

Type of publication: Journal articles | Rigos, Alexandros
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12 October, 2009

Stability of College Rankings. A Study of Relative Earnings Estimates Applying Different Methods and Models on Swedish Data

This study investigates how stabile the ranking system of Swedish universities is in relation to future incomes of their alumni. Amongst the findings, the ranking of colleges varies both across method

Type of publication: Working papers | Marie Gartell
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24 February, 2021
Bo Rothstein: Why No Economic Democracy in Sweden: A Counterfactual Approach

Bo Rothstein: Why No Economic Democracy in Sweden: A Counterfactual Approach

Companies, that are owned and/or governed by their employees are on average performing better and have higher productivity than firms that are governed by outside capitalists/owners/investors and they

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26 October, 2013

Democratic revolutions as institutional innovation diffusion: Rapid adoption and survival of democracy

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 80, Issue 8, October 2013, Pp. 1546–1556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.002 Abstract Recent ‘democratic revolutions’ in Islamic countries

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fredrik Jansson, Patrik Lindenfors, Mikael Sandberg
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18 March, 2021

Elite Schools, Elite Ambitions? The Consequences of Secondary-Level School Choice Sorting for Tertiary-Level Educational Choices

in: European Sociological Review, Volume 36, Issue 4 AbstractWe ask if school choice, through its effect on sorting across schools, affects high school graduates’ application decisions to higher educatof higher educational programs applied for. Low achievers increased their propensity to apply for the ‘low-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to less prestigious, less well-paid occupations, and high achievers increased their propensity to apply for ‘high-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to more prestigious, well-paid occupations. The results suggest that increased sorting across schools reinforces differences across schools and groups in ‘cultures of ambition’. Although these effects translate into relatively small increases in the gender gap, the immigration gap, and the parental education gap in educational choice, our results indicate that school choice, and the increased sorting it leads to, through conformity mechanisms in schools polarizes educational choices of students across achievement groups.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus , & Erik Rosenqvist
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18 March, 2021

Biased grades? Changes in grading after a blinding of examinations reform

in: Journal of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 45, 292-303. AbstractGroup differences in average grades prior to and after a step-wise introduction of blinded examinations at Stockholm Un

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus
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19 March, 2020

The coronavirus, mortality and life expectancy

 A demographer calculates how the average life expectancy can be affected In Sweden, we now experience the first pandemic that occurs in a society with modern information technology, and it is also the

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11 January, 2016

Percieved foreignness affects segregation of schools

At the moment there are several ongoing research projects at the Institute for Futures Studies that analyses segregation patterns and dynamics. One of the projects studies segregation in schools. One

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07 July, 2017

“Most MPs are Not All that Sharp.” Political Employees and Representative Democracy

International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 40 (7), s 548-558 (2017) DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1157693 Abstract The article analyses the orientations of political employees in

Type of publication: Journal articles | Svallfors, Stefan
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