Sökning: "Karin Edmark"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Karin Edmark.
1. Spatial Interactions Among Local Jurisdications-Eveidence from Swedish Municipalities
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2. Strategic Interactions among Swedish Local Governments
Sammanfattning : Essay 1 (with Matz Dahlberg) investigates if local governments react on the welfare benefit levels in neighbouring jurisdictions when setting their own benefit levels. The IV estimates indicate that there exists a "race-to-the-bottom" and that the effect is economically as well as statistically significant. LÄS MER
3. Essays on the economics of education and health
Sammanfattning : Study I: This paper investigates the effect of the academic ordinal rank position of Swedish grade 9 students relative to their school peers on future educational achievement and adult earnings. The results show evidence of a positive impact of being more highly ranked in the class, and the effects are concentrated to the top and the bottom of the ordinal rank distribution. LÄS MER
4. The fear of attracting functionally impaired : Strategic competition among Swedish municipalities
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5. Essays on Political Representation, Electoral Accountability and Strategic Interactions
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained essays.Essay 1 (with Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk) investigates political representation by exploring the relationship between citizens' preferences and the preferences of their elected representatives. LÄS MER