Sökning: "Erik Plug"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Erik Plug.
1. Family, Neighborhoods, and Health : Conditions for the Development of Human Capabilities
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: We use data from a large sample of adoptees born in Sweden to decompose the intergenerational persistence in health inequality across generations into one pre-birth component, measured by the biological parents’ longevity, and one post-birth component, measured by the adopting parents’ longevity. We find that most of the health inequality is transmitted via pre-birth factors. LÄS MER
2. Essays in education and family economics
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: This paper examines the determinants of teacher turnover using matched employee-employer panel data from Swedish lower and upper secondary schools in a market-oriented institutional environment with a growing private sector and individually negotiated wages. I find statistically significant and robust negative correlations between mobility and monetary compensations. LÄS MER
3. Software tools for matrix canonical computations and web-based software library environments
Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses the development and use of novel software tools and environments for the computation and visualization of canonical information as well as stratification hierarchies for matrices and matrix pencils. The simplest standard shape to which a matrix pencil with a given set of eigenvalues can be reduced is called the Kronecker canonical form (KCF). LÄS MER
4. Model-based outlier adjustments for samples from skewed populations
Sammanfattning : Many populations encountered in practice are skewed to the right and contain a couple of values which are much larger than the bulk of the data. Using standard estimators to estimate for example the mean value of such a population is likely to result in a large variance. LÄS MER
5. Renewables Based Polygeneration for Rural Development in Bangladesh
Sammanfattning : Despite the country's rural electrification programme, kerosene is the predominant source for lighting, and unsustainable and polluting woody biomass is virtually the only option available for cooking. The rural population also struggles with unsafe drinking water in terms of widespread arsenic contamination of well water. LÄS MER