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6. Political Careers, Government Stability, and Electoral Cycles
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: This essay investigates the impact of voter support on the representation of women in the political profession. The empirical analysis exploits two-stage elections in the United States and Italy to hold the selection of candidates constant. LÄS MER
7. 1. On mandatory activation of welfare receivers. 2. Is welfare dependency inherited? Estimating the causal welfare transmission effects using Swedish sibling data
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8. Essays on Welfare Dependency and the Privatization of Welfare Services
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: This paper investigates whether mandatory activation programs for welfare recipients have effects on welfare participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies, we are able to capture both entry and exit effects. LÄS MER
9. Corruption, Distortions and Development
Sammanfattning : Essay I: Does increased government transparency make bureaucracies more meritocratic? I study the impact of politician disclosure requirements on the assignment of bureaucrats to public posts. I collect detailed information on bureaucrats' qualifications and construct a novel measure of bureaucratic mismatch—an index measuring the extent to which a bureaucrat is under- or overqualified to perform a specific task. LÄS MER
10. Empirical Essays in Public and Political Economics
Sammanfattning : Essay I: This paper proposes a novel approach to the issue of size, cost-efficiency and economies of scale by focusing on the break-up of municipalities. Municipal break-ups are an understudied phenomenon that nevertheless has been recurrent not only in parts of eastern Europe, but also in Spain and Sweden. LÄS MER