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1. Bronze Age Identities : Costume, Conflict and Contact in Northern Europe 1600-1300 BC
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with male and female social identities during the Middle Bronze Age (1600-1300 BC) in southern Scandinavia and northern Germany. South Scandinavian Bronze Age research has traditionally focused on the male sphere, while women have seldom been seriously considered or analysed in terms of their roles, power or influences on society. LÄS MER
2. Child Marriage, Human Development and Welfare : Using Public Spending, Taxation and Conditional Cash Transfers as Policy Instruments
Sammanfattning : The theme of this thesis is to analyze the impact of policy interventions such as financing human development (HD), tax reform and conditional cash transfer programmes, under the framework of growth and sustainable development. These policy instruments are evaluated through the application of both partial and general equilibrium models, and the last paper concentrates on developing regional social accounting matrices (SAMs) as a core database for spatial general equilibrium modelling. LÄS MER
3. Stockholmsäktenskap : familjebildning och partnerval i Stockholm 1850-1890
Sammanfattning : The subject for this dissertation is family formation and the choice of partners during the initial period of industrialization in Stockholm. An important question is whether there were differences in behavior concerning the formation of families and the choice of partners as between different social groups and as between natives and in-migrants. LÄS MER
4. Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland
Sammanfattning : This thesis serves to bring Iceland into the realm of Nordic family-demographic and fertility research. Based on event-history techniques applied to Iceland longitudinal register data, I provide an overview of contemporary family-demographic trends during the last few decades. The thesis consists of four empirical studies. LÄS MER
5. Time for Retirement : Studies on how leisure and family associate with retirement timing in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Retirement transition is a major life event in later adult life. Its timing is important for older individuals for economic, personal and family reasons, as well as for aging societies contemplating a comprehensive plan for population changes, including sustainability of the labor force, pension system, and welfare services such as eldercare. LÄS MER