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High-Speed Broadband and Academic Achievement in Teenagers: Evidence from Sweden

This study examines the effects of super-fast internet connections on the academic achievement of students in upper secondary school. We link detailed register data on around 250,000 students to local levels of access to optic fiber broadband, in order to estimate a causal effect of broadband on student GPA. We show that reaching full coverage in the student’s parish of residence causes a GPA redu

Gendering of day center occupations as perceived by people with psychiatric disabilities in Sweden

Background: The aim was to explore the experiences and views of people attending day centers for people with psychiatric disabilities concerning the occurrence and nature of gendering of the occupations performed there. Methods: Twenty-five day center attendees were interviewed regarding occupational choices at the day centers, whether they would describe day center occupations as gendered, and if

Regulating Third Party Assurance Engagements on Sustainability Reports : Insights from the Swedish Case

It is a well-institutionalised notion that information subjected to assurance (audit) by third parties contributes to better quality information for decision making. In the field of sustainability reporting, who are providing assurance and how is quality regulated? What are the challenges of regulating sustainability assurance through standards? What role can hard law play to strengthen reporting

Medieval medical cultures in Sweden - practices and ideas mirrored in materiality : Practices and ideas mirrored in materiality

The poster briefly presents some main traits on how medical practice and understanding changed during the middle ages and renaissance, and how it is mirrored in material culture. A development well on its way during the first half of the middle ages seems to have been interrupted by the Great Death and after that new ideas from abroad were allowed to have a greater influence. A major explanation t

Psychosocial work dimensions, exposure to violence, and burnout in relation to attitudes towards the use of force among Swedish patrolling police officers

Introduction: Police work involves stressors specific to police workand to general organizational aspects of work. Some of the latterhas previously been identified as risk factors for burnout, particularly to increased degree of the burnout sub-dimension cynicism.Cynicism has in turn been related to a positive attitude to the use offorce to solve problems. In the present study the relationshipsbet