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

Caroline Hall

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

Per Pettersson-Lidbom 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 Riphahn

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

Guillaume Horny, Rute Mendes and Gerard 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, Gregory Jolivet and Gerard 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 Skogman Thoursie

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

Gerard 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 Wennberg

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

Erik Mellander and Sofia Sandgren-Massih

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

Elly-Ann Johansson 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

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 van den Berg, Gabriele Doblhammer-Reiter 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 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 van den Berg

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

Monica Costa Dias, Hidehiko Ichimura and Gerard 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

2008:1: The aggregate labor market effects of the Swedish knowledge lift program

James Albrecht, Gerard van den Berg and Susan Vroman

2007:31: Do anonymous job application procedures level the playing field?

Olof Åslund and Oskar Skans

2007:30: An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market

Rute Mendes, Gerard van den Berg and Maarten Lindeboom

2007:29: Effects of work requirements on welfare migration

Karin Edmark

2007:28: The gender gap in workplace authority in Sweden 1968-2000 – a family affair?

Magnus Bygren and Michael Gähler

2007:27: Labour market programmes and labour market outcomes: a study of the Swedish active labour market interventions

Jerome Adda, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and Barbara Sianesi

2007:26: Resources and student achievement – evidence from a Swedish policy reform

Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert

2007:25: Gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students – evidence from Sweden

Erica Lindahl

2007:24: Comparing teachers’ assessments and national test results – evidence from Sweden

Erica Lindahl

2007:23: The relation between fluid intelligence and the general factor as a function of cultural background: a test of Cattell's investment theory

Ann Valentin Kvist and Jan-Eric Gustafsson

2007:22: Strategic competition in Swedish local spending on childcare, schooling and care for the elderly

Karin Edmark

2007:21: The effect of unemployment benefits on re-employment rates: evidence from the Finnish UI-benefit reform

Roope Uusitalo and Jouko Verho

2007:20: Ethnicity and obesity: evidence of implicit work performance stereotypes in Sweden

Agerström Jens, Rickard Carlsson and Dan-Olof Rooth