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  1. 1. Spillover effects from parental unemployment on children's educational and early labour market outcomes - Evidence from Germany

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Celina Tippmann; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Intergenerational spillover; Education; Plant closure; Entropy balancing; Socioeconomic Panel;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the intergenerational impact of parental unemployment on children's educational and early labour market outcomes. To mitigate selection bias, the empirical strategy relies on plausibly exogenous job ends and applies entropy balancing. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Climate change beliefs, environmental policies support and the fossil fuels industry

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Tommaso Piseddu; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Environmental Policies; Climate Change Beliefs; Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Coal Plants;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to provide a contribution to the analysis of how relevant the presence of the fossil fuels industry is in shaping the attitudes toward climate change and environmental policies. This presence is studied in the form of coal plants at county-level and in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 in Louisiana, a state that largely relies on oil and gas extractive activities. LÄS MER

  4. 3. On Kim's critique of non-reductive physicalism

    Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Författare :Roque Molina; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Nonreductive physicalism; downward causation; causal closure; levels; irreducibility;

    Sammanfattning : Kim criticizes non-reductive physicalism as a suitable metaphysics of mind among things because of its failure on the issue of mental causation. The failure is especially present in the thesis of supervenience physicalism. LÄS MER

  5. 4. An Evolutionary Argument against Physicalism : or some advice to Jaegwon Kim and Alvin Plantinga

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Christoffer Skogholt; [2014]
    Nyckelord :philosophy of mind; reductionism; mental causation; Jaegwon Kim; Alvin Plantinga; The myth of nonreductive materialism the evolutionary argument against naturalism ;

    Sammanfattning : According to the dominant tradition in Christianity and many other religions, human beings are both knowers and actors: beings with conscious beliefs about the world who sometimes act intentionally guided by these beliefs. According to philosopher of mind Robert Cummins the “received view” among philosophers of mind is epiphenomenalism, according to which mental causation does not exist: neural events are the underlying causes of both behavior and belief which explains the correlation (not causation) between belief and behavior. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Growth Patterns of Start-Up Firms - A Cohort Study with a Quantile Regression Approach

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Sebastian Krakowski; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Firm Growth Rates; Firm Growth Distributions; Monte Carlo Simulation; Quantile Regression;

    Sammanfattning : Using panel data for the cohort of Swedish limited companies established in 1997, this study analyzes the patterns and distributions of the firms' growth rates. After characterizing the growth patterns, we test the hypothesis that firm growth is essentially stochastic; a theory originating from Gibrat (1931). LÄS MER