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Household-distributed national accounts: New perspectives on the distribution of income and wealth in Sweden, 1930-2020
This project examines new perspectives on economic inequality in Sweden.
Uxorilocal Marriage as a Strategy for Heirship in a Patrilineal Society: Evidence from Household Registers in early 20th-Century Taiwan
The History of the Family Abstract In pre-industrial Taiwan, an uxorilocal marriage, in which a man moved in with his bride’s family, was a familial strategy used to continue family lineage and to enhan
Do poorer youth have fewer friends? The role of household and child economic resources in adolescent school-class friendships
Children and Youth Services Review, In Press, Accepted Manuscript. Published online before print August 21, 2015, doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.08.013 Poverty among children and adolescents attracts con
Using impure altruism to promote pro-environmental behavior
Is it possible to nudge people into more environmentally friendly behaviour using impure altruism as a driver?
Child Health and Family Income: Physical and Psychosocial Health
This paper provides a detailed investigation of the family income/child health relationship focusing on physical and psychosocial health, parent’s socioeconomic background, and liquidity constraint pr
Poor Kids? Economic Resources and Adverse Peer Relations in a Nationally Representative Sample of Swedish Adolescents
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, First online, DOI 10.1007/s10964-017-0747-8 Abstract There is limited knowledge on the impact of economic resources on adverse peer relations during adolescence. This st
Jason Beckfield: Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality
Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Abstract The Euro-crisis of 2009–2012 and the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the EU vividly demonstrated that EU policies matter for the distribut
Intergenerational Public and Private Sector Redistribution in Sweden 2003
The paper describes intergenerational redistribution in Sweden the year 2003. Looking over the whole life, the summed per capita consumption from both the private and public side is quite smooth until
Olle Hammar
I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an assistant professor in economics at Linnaeus University. My research focuses on issues related to economic inequality, migration and cultu, at Uppsala University in 2021. I have also been a postdoc at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics and a visiting researcher at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Welfare States, Social Structure and the Dynamics of Poverty Rates. A comparative study of 16 countries, 1980-2000
This paper attempts to explain temporal and spatial variation of poverty rates in terms of unemployment insurance and socio-demographic factors, and test the ‘convergence hypothesis’ of the poverty ra
