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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 51 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Residency.
1. Urbanization and Education : The Effect of Childhood Urban Residency on Educational Attainment
Sammanfattning : Essay I: Does rural to urban migration in developing countries improve the opportunities available to children? And does childhood urban exposure increase educational attainment? Using census data for 14 African countries combined with an age-at-move design, I show that childhood exposure to cities significantly raises primary school completion, school attendance, and literacy rates. The increase in educational attainment is robust to the inclusion of household fixed effects, visible in all subgroups and countries, and particularly large for girls. LÄS MER
2. Constructing communities : The establishment and demographic development of sawmill communities in the Sundsvall district, 1850-1890
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the establishment and demographic development of the sawmill communities that emerged in the Sundsvall district during the latter half of the 19th century. The intention is to highlight the importance of the sawmill communities and their resident populations by discussing community construction from a demographic perspective as well as socially and symbolically. LÄS MER
3. Surgical Education Assessment of simulators for training and selection of trainees
Sammanfattning : BackgroundApproximately 15 % of surgical patients in hospital are affected of an adverse event, which is a medical error caused by the health care system. Laparoscopy is the preferred surgical technique in common procedures. LÄS MER
4. Governing Migration : On the Emergence and Effects of Policies Related to the Settlement and Inclusion of Refugees
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of the following papers: In Paper I, I investigate the causal relationship between seat majorities for mainstream parties and refugee reception policy in Swedish municipalities. In conclusion, I find that the link between political seat majorities and refugee reception is of an associative rather than a causal nature. LÄS MER
5. Social stressors and their association with psychosomatic problems among adolescents : Implications for school social work
Sammanfattning : The overall aim was to investigate associations between family-, school- and individual-related social stressors and adolescents’ psychosomatic problems, and which factors might moderate these associations. A cross-sectional study design was employed to collect data and 3764 Swedish adolescents (girls 51. LÄS MER