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27 June, 2018

Using Register Data to Estimate Causal Effects of Interventions: An Ex Post Synthetic Control-Group Approach

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 45, pp.50-55. Abstract Aims:It is common in the context of evaluations that participants have not been selected on the basis of transparent participation criteria,

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus , & Ryszard Szulkin
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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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10 March, 2016

Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions. The Intimate Economy of Tango.

[Reissue] New York: Routledge. Throughout the chapters, the author assesses how, in an explosive economic and political context, people's emotional lives intermingle with a tourism industry that has fo

Type of publication: Books |
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07 March, 2014

The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?

Michael Osborne, Exeter College, Oxford. We examine how susceptible jobs are to computerisation. To assess this, we begin by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability of computerisat

Michael Osborne, Exeter College, Oxford.
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11 March, 2019

Explaining Swedish Sibling Similarity in Fertility: Parental Fertility Behavior vs. Social Background

Demographic Research, 39(32): 884-893. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.32 Abstract Objective: The aim of this descriptive study is to determine which of the family-specific factors, parental fertility behav

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & Johan Dahlberg
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25 February, 2009

Unemployment and Subsequent Earnings for Swedish College Graduates: A Study of Scarring Effects

The purpose of this paper is to study the long term effects of the college-to-work transition. The results reveal that unemployment immediately upon graduation has substantial and permanent effects on

Type of publication: Working papers | Marie Gartell
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11 June, 2008

Demography and housing demand – What can we learn from residential construction data?

2008. Journal of Population Economics 21(3), 521-539. Abstract There are obvious reasons why residential construction should depend on the population’s age structure. We estimate this relation on Swedis

Type of publication: Journal articles | Thomas Lindh, Bo Malmberg
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06 March, 2019

The Difference Principle Would Not Be Chosen behind the Veil of Ignorance.

The Journal of Philosophy 115 (11):588-604, DOI: 10.5840/jphil20181151134 Abstract John Rawls argues that the Difference Principle (also known as the Maximin Equity Criterion) would be chosen by parties

Type of publication: Journal articles | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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11 September, 2020

Speed and Concentration of the Covering Time for Structured Coupon Collectors

Journal of Applied Probability Abstract Let V be an n-set, and let X be a random variable taking values in the power-set of V. Suppose we are given a sequence of random coupons , where the are independe

Type of publication: Journal articles | Markström, Klas , , Falgas-Ravry, Victor & Larsson, Joel
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23 September, 2024

Birth Spacing and Parents’ Physical and Mental Health: An Analysis Using Individual and Sibling Fixed Effects

Demography 61(2): 393–418 Abstract An extensive literature has examined the relationship between birth spacing and subsequent health outcomes for parents, particularly for mothers. However, this researc

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , Barclay, K. & Ö. Kravdal
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