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11. Growing up with poor health and managing school : Studies on ill health and young people's educational achievements
Sammanfattning : Aim and objectives: The overall aim of this thesis was to empirically investigate consequences of poor health for children’s educational outcomes in Sweden. A central tenet is that health problems impact not only the afflicted individual but also people in their social and emotional proximity, in particular immediate family members. LÄS MER
12. Early-life gut microbiota and breast milk oligosaccharides in relation to childhood immune maturation and allergy
Sammanfattning : Atopic allergy is the most common chronic disease among children in the developed world. This high prevalence could be associated with low microbial exposure. The early gut microbiota appears to be important for immune maturation. LÄS MER
13. Time- and size-efficient supercompilation
Sammanfattning : Intermediate structures such as lists and higher-order functions are very common in most styles of functional programming. While allowing the programmer to write clear and concise programs, the creation and destruction of these structures impose a run time overhead which is not negligible. LÄS MER
14. Five essays on models and methods for the analysis of survival data with single and multiple causes of failure : With applications in family demography
Sammanfattning : The dissertation consists of five self-contained essays dealing with analytical investigations, simulation studies, and demographic applications of statistical models and associated methods for the analysis of the so-called survival data.Our analytical results in the first paper indicate that models for grouped survival data which, depending on the application, are labeled different names, practically, make use of the same method in the process of parameter estimation and inference. LÄS MER
15. Managing migration in modern welfare states : Essays on the development, causes, and effects of policies regulating family immigration
Sammanfattning : Being the main channel of migration into advanced industrial democracies, family migration has been the subject of increasing contestation in political debate. While previous studies have noted that many OECD countries have introduced more restrictive policies on family immigration during the last few decades, we still know little about how cross-country policy configurations in this area have evolved and varied over time, or about how policies affect inflows and why they differ between countries. LÄS MER
