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2009:22: How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? Looking beyond unemployment exit

Patrick Arni, Rafael Lalive and Jan C. van Ours

2009:21: Age at migration and social integration

Olof Åslund, Anders Böhlmark and Oskar Nordström Skans

2009:20: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement – evidence from a placement policy

Olof Åslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Hans Grönqvist

2009:19: Stability of college rankings - A study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data

Marie Gartell

2009:18: Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality

Gerard J. van den Berg and Johan Vikström

2009:17: Social stratification and out-of-school learning

Christian Andersson and Per Johansson

2009:16: Experimental evidence from intensified placement efforts among unemployed in Sweden

Pathric Hägglund

2009:15: Cluster sample inference using sensitivity analysis: the case with few groups

Johan Vikström

2009:14: The duration of paid parental leave and children’s scholastic performance

Qian Liu and Oskar Nordström Skans

2009:13: The effect of employer incentives in social insurance on individual wages

Johan Vikström

2009:12: Sensitivity analysis of the unconfoundedness assumption in observational studies

Xavier de Luna and Mathias Lundin

2009:11: Neighbourhoods, economic incentives and post compulsory education choices

Lars Lindvall

2009:10: Unemployment and subsequent earnings for Swedish college graduates: a study of scarring effects

Marie Gartell

2009:9: Does making upper secondary school more comprehensive affect dropout rates, educational attainment and earnings? Evidence from a Swedish pilot scheme

Caroline Hall (formerly Runeson)

2009:8: Putting teenagers on the pill: the consequences of subsidized contraception

Hans Grönqvist

2009:7: Does child spacing affect children’s outcomes? Evidence from a Swedish reform

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per and Peter Skogman Thoursie

2009:6: School tracking and development of cognitive skills

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Sari Pekkala Kerr

2009:5: Female labor supply and parental leave benefits – the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Annette Bergemann and Regina Therese Riphahn

2009:4: Job durations with worker and firm specific effects: MCMC estimation with longitudinal employer-employee data

Guillaume Horny, Rute Mendes and Gerard J. van den Berg

2009:3: Vacancy referrals, job search and the duration of unemployment: a randomized experiment

Per Engström, Patrik Hesselius and Bertil Holmlund

2009:2: Sick of your colleagues' absence?

Patrik Hesselius, Per Johansson and J Peter Nilsson

2009:1: Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting

Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet and Gerard J. van den Berg

2008:29: Cheaper child care, more children

Eva Mörk, Anna Sjögren and Helena Svalelryd

2008:28: Estimating dynamic income responses to tax reforms: Swedish evidence

Bertil Holmlund and Martin Söderström

2008:27: Last in, first out? Estimating the effect of seniority rules in Sweden

David von Below and Peter Thoursie

2008:26: The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals

Gerard J. van den Berg, Annette Bergemann and Marco Caliendo

2008:25: One size fits all? The effects of teacher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities on student achievement

Erik Grönqvist and Jonas Vlachos

2008:24: On mandatory activation of welfare receivers

Matz Dahlberg, Kajsa Johansson and Eva Mörk

2008:23: The dynamics of combining self-employment and employment

Frédéric Delmar, Timothy Folta and Karl Jonas Wennberg

2008:22: Proxying ability by family background in returns to schooling estimations is generally a bad idea

Erik Mellander and Sandgren-Massih, Sofia

2008:21: The effects of mixed-age classes in Sweden

Johansson, Elly-Ann and Erica Lindahl

2008:20: Technology, institutions and allocation of time in Swedish households 1920-1990

Lars Svensson

2008:19: Do regional payroll tax reductions boost employment?

Helge Bennmarker, Erik Mellander and Björn Öckert

2008:18: Do interactions between unemployment insurance and sickness insurance affect transitions to employment?

Caroline Hall (formerly Runeson)

2008:17: Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power

Matz Dahlberg, Heléne Lundqvist and Eva Mörk

2008:16: Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate later in life – evidence based on individuals born at different stages of the business cycle

Gerard J. van den Berg, Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele and Kaare Christensen

2008:15: Do unemployment benefits increase unemployment? New evidence on an old question

Peter Fredriksson and Martin Söderström

2008:14: The US earned income tax credit, its effects, and possible reforms

Bruce D. Meyer

2008:13: Welfare reform: the US experience

Robert Moffitt

2008:12: Welfare reform in the UK: 1997–2007

Mike Brewer

2008:11: Welfare reforms and child well-being in the US and UK

Jane Waldfogel

2008:10: Distribution and labour market incentives in the welfare state – Danish experiences

Torben M. Andersen and Lars Haagen Pedersen

2008:9: Scars of recession: the long-term costs of the Finnish economic crisis

Jouko Verho

2008:8: Monitoring and norms in sickness insurance: empirical evidence from a natural experiment

Patrik Hesselius, Per Johansson and Johan Vikström

2008:7: Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment

Katarina Richardson and Gerard J. van den Berg

2008:6: The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles

Monica Costa Dias, Hidehiko Ichimura and Gerard J. van den Berg

2008:5: Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations

Annika Alexius and Bertil Holmlund

2008:4: Does a pint a day affect your child’s pay? The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes

J Peter Nilsson

2008:3: Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects

Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk

2008:2: Economic fluctuations and retirement of older employees

Daniel Hallberg