Sökning: "Welfare Economics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 237 uppsatser innehållade orden Welfare Economics.

  1. 1. Children’s education and parents’ mortality – Do parents with highly educated children live longer?

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Pauline Bode; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Mortality inequalities; socioeconomic gradient in health; children’s education; socioeconomic status; SES; demography; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : While there exists a large literature on mortality inequalities by an individual’s level of education and other socioeconomic characteristics this thesis looks at the relationship between the children’s level of education and parents’ mortality, which has been relatively less studied. I use longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for the years 2004-2017 and conduct Cox proportional hazard regressions to assess how children’s level of education affects parents’ mortality risks. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Battery-Storage Investment for a Power System with High Variable Renewable Energy Output

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap

    Författare :Elva Yunyan Wallimann; [2023]
    Nyckelord :decision and risk analysis; energy economics; capacity expansion; operations research; utility-scale battery;

    Sammanfattning : Climate change is posing significant threats to human beings. Deploying renewable energy sources in electricity generation is widely accepted as an indispensable part of the solution to climate change. The vast potential lies in variable renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Hur påverkar utfodringen av kon kalvens födelsevikt i dikalvsuppfödning?

    Kandidat-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Författare :Cecilia Olson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :diko; dikalvsuppfödning; kalv; födelsevikt; utfodring; näringsbehov; dräktighet;

    Sammanfattning : Dikalvsuppfödare strävar efter levande och livskraftiga kalvar för att kunna hålla god lönsamhet i sin produktion. Stora kalvar kan orsaka förlossningskomplikationer och dödfödslar och är därför inte önskvärda på grund av aspekter som rör både ekonomi och djurvälfärd. LÄS MER

  5. 4. A level playing field? A comparative analysis of financial student aid in Sweden and Germany

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Julia Hampel; [2023]
    Nyckelord :student aid; student finance; CSN; Bafög; Germany; Sweden; economic equality; John Rawls; distributive justice; welfare states; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This qualitative case study compares two different student aid systems, the universal Swedish one (CSN) with the needs-based German one (Bafög) to determine their effect to facilitate enrollment in university education and reduce socioeconomic inequalities. For this, tertiary students in Germany and Sweden were surveyed for their opinion on the equality of their respective student aid systems. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Simulating sustainable futures - Investigating the implications of CO2 emission caps on economic growth in the OECD

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Anja Sophia Theopold; Ulrika Ericson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Economic growth; Climate change; Absolute caps on emissions; Technological change; OECD; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : The matters of economic growth and climate change are both widely subjected to discussions and policymakers are under immense pressure to make decisions that enhance economic growth and stop climate change. Policies that ensure economic growth have traditionally had a negative impact on climate change and vice versa. LÄS MER