The total fertility rates differ substantially across high-income countries. In some countries, the total fertility rate is as low as 1.3, and factors behind such low levels are not well understood....

Department of Economics welcomes you to an online seminar with Catherine Tucker who is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. This is an online...

This paper analyses the effect of a firm’s organizational capacity on reported profitability of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Better organizational practices improve productivity and the potential...

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with David de la Croix, Universite Catholique Louvain, presenting "Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia...

This paper investigates the role of sorting between students and higher education programmes in driving social mobility in the UK. A model of education, labour supply and earnings allows for a rich...

On October 7, Misum hosted the 2020 edition of its annual forum, this year focused on the impact of COVID-19 on global inequalities in education and healthcare, and the state of strategic, long-term...

The Global Health Night and SIGHT Award 2020 was organised by Misum together with the Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation Student Organization Network (SIGHT SON) and the Student...