A review of a study from over 60 countries shows that people perceive the rich's fortunes as a result of selfish behavior, that inequality is unfair, and that there is strong support for income redistribution.
Targeting payments of a nationwide conditional cash transfer program to women increased household spending on food by empowering women and enhancing their decision-making power in the household.
IIES Assistant Professor Alexandre Kohlhas and co-author Ansgar Walther (Imperial College London) have had their paper "Asymmetric Attention" published in American Economic Review.
Research by IIES Graduate Student Claire Thürwächter (with co-author Fédéric Holm-Hadulla, European Central Bank) accepted for publication in the European Economic Review.
IIES Professor Ingvild Almås and Bet Caeyers (Research Economist at FAIR NHH) are leading the design and implementation of an ambitious Early Childhood Development (ECD) research program in Tanzania.
How to design unemployment insurance is a heavily contested question across the political spectrum around the world. This research develops a novel framework to think about the optimal provision of unemployment insurance and quantifies the relevant trade-offs using rich Swedish administrative data. The work provides highly policy-relevant insights.
In a new paper a team of researchers from IIES at Stockholm University, Aceso Global and Center for Global Development provide new predictions of the infection fatality rate (IFR) for COVID-19 for each country in the world.
Francesco Loiacono, with PhD fellow Mariajose Silva-Vargas (Maastricht University and UNU-Merit) have been awarded grants from Peace & Recovery Competitive Fund from IPA and from PEDL.
Assistant Professor, Jonathan de Quidt, with Gharad Bryan, Mariajose Silva Vargas and Tom Wilkening have been awarded a grant of 4,4 MKr from the Swedish Research Council to fund their research in Uganda.
Graduate Student Mattias Hallberg finds that Swedish children spending more time at preschool growing up, are awarded better grades in math at age 16 than those who spend less time at preschool.
The SNS Economic Policy Council 2020 has released a report that presents how policy should be designed to curb, and in the long term, stop global climate change.
Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart and Konrad Burchardi have been awarded a grant of 7 385 000 SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond to support their project "The Swedish Manufacturing Census: Digitization and Public Access."
IIES Associate Professor, Kurt Mitman's paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy. Ahead of publication, Kurt shared his thoughts on future research on the topic, as well as explained his paper further.
Peter Nilsson's paper "Understanding How Low Levels of Early Lead Exposure Affects Children's Life Trajectories" (joint with Hans Grönqvist and Per-Olof Robling) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Political Economy (one of the top economics journals in the world).
