Test Scores and Economic Growth: Update and Extension
Ballooning Bureaucracy? Stylized Facts of Growing Administration in Swedish Higher Education
The Profit Motive in the Classroom—Friend or Foe?
Investment Treaty Reforms to Prevent Developing Country Regulatory Chill from Causing Global Warming
Workshop in Prague
IFN organized a workshop at the Prague University of Economics and Business on May 23–26, 2024, within the research project “Cultures of Trust and Institutions of Freedom,” funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The workshop was organized by IFN researcher Niclas Berggren (affiliated with the Prague University of Economics and Business) and IFN-affiliated Christian Bjørnskov (Aarhus University).
IFN Researchers receive funding from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse and Tore Browaldhs stiftelse
Björn Tyrefors has received funding of SEK 1,700,000 for the research project "The First Long-Term Causal Evaluation of Unconditional Cash Transfers to Poor Families." The project investigates the effect of unconditional cash assistance on low-income earners and the impact of aid and assistance on children.
Martin Ljunge has been awarded a grant of SEK 200,000 for a research visit abroad. Martin will be a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, collaborating with Steven Riddiough on a project on immigrants' financial behavior. Martin has also been invited as a visiting scholar at Amherst College by Caroline Theoharides.