Henrik Jordahl

Örebro University - School of Business

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SE-70182 Orebro, Örebro SE-701 82

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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

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  • Örebro University - School of Business

  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

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1.

Inequality and Trust

Published as "Economic inequality" in Svendsen, G. T. and Svendsen, G. L. H. (eds.), Handbook of Social Capital, Edward Elgar, 2009, IFN Working Paper No. 715
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2017
Henrik Jordahl
Örebro University - School of Business
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Trust, Inequality, Social Capital, Social Ties, Networks

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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender, and Electoral Success

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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender, and Electoral Success

CESifo Working Paper No. 2002
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Jun 2007
Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Örebro University - School of Business and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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beauty, gender, elections, political candidates, beauty premium

The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2311
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Sep 2006
Panu Poutvaara, Niclas Berggren and Henrik Jordahl
University of Helsinki - Department of Economics, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Örebro University - School of Business
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beauty, gender, elections, political candidates, beauty premium

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Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

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Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2489
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Dec 2008
Mikael Elinder, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara
Uppsala University - Department of Economics, Örebro University - School of Business and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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elections, economic voting, pocketbook voting, self-interest, prospective voting, retrospective voting, child care

Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3763
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Oct 2008
Mikael Elinder, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara
Uppsala University - Department of Economics, Örebro University - School of Business and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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elections, economic voting, pocketbook voting, self-interest, prospective voting, retrospective voting, child care

Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Published as "Promises, policies and pocketbook voting" in European Economic Review, 75 (April), 177-194, 2015, IFN Working Paper No. 770
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2017
Mikael Elinder, Panu Poutvaara and Henrik Jordahl
Uppsala University - Department of Economics, University of Helsinki - Department of Economics and Örebro University - School of Business
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Elections, Economic voting, Pocketbook voting, Self-interest, Prospective voting, Retrospective voting, Child care

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Outsourcing Public Services: Ownership, Competition, Quality and Contracting

IFN Working Paper No. 874
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Jun 2011
Fredrik Andersson and Henrik Jordahl
Lund University - Department of Economics and Örebro University - School of Business
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outsourcing, contracts, tendering, ownership, competition, quality

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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It

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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It

Published as: Berggren, Niclas, Jordahl, Henrik and Poutvaara, Panu (2017). "The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It". Journal of Public Economics, 146 (February): 79-86, IFN Working Paper No. 855
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2017
Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Örebro University - School of Business and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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Beauty, Elections, Political candidates, Appearance, Ideology, Parties

The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3310
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Jan 2011
Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Örebro University - School of Business and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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beauty, elections, political candidates, appearance, ideology, parties

The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5513
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 Feb 2011
Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Örebro University - School of Business and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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beauty, elections, political candidates, appearance, ideology, parties

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The Political Opinions of Swedish Social Scientists

Finnish Economic Papers, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 75-88, 2009, IFN Working Paper No. 711
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2011
Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl and Charlotta Stern
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Örebro University - School of Business and Stockholm University - Department of Sociology
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Academics, Social Scientists, Policy Views, Political Opinions, Party Sympathies

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Does Free Trade Really Reduce Growth? Further Testing Using the Economic Freedom Index

Public Choice, Vol. 122, Nos. 1-2, pp. 99-114, 2005
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Oct 2006
Niclas Berggren and Henrik Jordahl
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Örebro University - School of Business
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free trade, economic freedom, economic growth

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Trust and Growth: A Shaky Relationship

IFN Working Paper No. 705, Empirical Economics, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 251-274, 2008
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2009
Mikael Elinder, Niclas Berggren and Henrik Jordahl
Uppsala University - Department of Economics, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Örebro University - School of Business
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trust, growth, robustness, social capital, outliers

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Merged Municipalities, Higher Debt: On Free-Riding and the Common Pool Problem in Politics

Public Choice, Vol. 143, 2010
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2014
Henrik Jordahl and Che-Yuan Liang
Örebro University - School of Business and Uppsala University - Department of Economics
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common pool, free-riding, local government amalgamation, difference-in-differences

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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6632
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Jun 2012
Mikael Elinder and Henrik Jordahl
Uppsala University - Department of Economics and Örebro University - School of Business
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outsourcing, ideology, public provision, contracting out, child care, education

Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

IFN Working Paper No. 877, European Journal of Political Economy, 30 (June), 43-57, 2013
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2017
Mikael Elinder and Henrik Jordahl
Uppsala University - Department of Economics and Örebro University - School of Business
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outsourcing, ideology, public provision, contracting out

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Optimal Utilitarian Taxation and Horizontal Equity

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 31 Jul 2003
Henrik Jordahl and Luca Micheletto
Örebro University - School of Business and Bocconi University
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Horizontal Equity, Optimal Taxation, Heterogeneous Preferences, Utilitarianism

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An Economic Analysis of Voting in Sweden

Public Choice, 127 (3), 251-265, 2006, Uppsala Univ., Economics Working Paper No. 2001:18
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Nov 2001 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2017
Henrik Jordahl
Örebro University - School of Business
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Elections, voting behavior, pocketbook voting, self-interest, public interest

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Inequality and Trust: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others

Published as "Inequality and trust in Sweden: Some inequalities are more harmful than others", Journal of Public Economics, 92 (1-2), 348-365, 2008, Uppsala University Economics Working Paper No. 2006:3
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2017
Magnus J. Gustavsson and Henrik Jordahl
Uppsala University - Department of Economics and Örebro University - School of Business
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trust, social capital, inequality

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Faces of Politicians: Babyfacedness Predicts Inferred Competence but Not Electoral Success

IFN Working Paper No. 803, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 1132-1135, 2009
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2009
Panu Poutvaara, Henrik Jordahl and Niclas Berggren
University of Helsinki - Department of Economics, Örebro University - School of Business and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Babyfacedness, Competence, Beauty, Trustworthiness, Elections

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Exploring Digital Time Measurement in the Public Sector: Labor Productivity and Service Quality in Home Care

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Sep 2018
Lovisa Persson and Henrik Jordahl
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Örebro University - School of Business
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Public sector productivity, digitalization, time use, choice reforms

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Management Practices and the Quality of Primary Care

IFN Working Paper No. 1174
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 May 2018
Jannis Angelis, Anna Glenngård and Henrik Jordahl
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Lund University - School of Economics and Management and Örebro University - School of Business
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Management quality, primary care, quality of care, accessibility, World Management Survey

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Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12401
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Jun 2019
Fredrik Andersson, Henrik Jordahl and Jens Josephson
Lund University - School of Economics and Management, Örebro University - School of Business and Stockholm University
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publicly provided goods, property rights, privatization

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Choice and Competition in the Welfare State: Home Care as the Ideal Quasi-market

IFN Working Paper No. 1213
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Jul 2020
Mats Bergman, Henrik Jordahl and Sofia Lundberg
Södertörn University, Stockholm, Örebro University - School of Business and University of Umea - Department of Economics
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Choice, Competition, Privatization, Elderly care, New public management

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Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-Employed Workers

Published as "Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Comment" in Economics of Education Review 28, 641-644, 2009, IFN Working Paper No. 762
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 05 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2017
Henrik Jordahl, Panu Poutvaara and Juha Tuomala
Örebro University - School of Business, University of Helsinki - Department of Economics and Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research
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Education, Entrepreneurship, Human capital, EGIV estimator

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Free to Trust: Economic Freedom and Social Capital

Kyklos, Vol. 59: 141-169, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6435.2006.00324.x
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Mar 2023
Niclas Berggren and Henrik Jordahl
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Örebro University - School of Business
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markets, economic freedom, trust, rule of law

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Test Scores and Economic Growth: Update and Extension

IFN Working Paper No. 1408
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 02 May 2022
Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren and Henrik Jordahl
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Örebro University - School of Business
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Education, economic growth, PISA, TIMSS, top-performing students

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Ballooning bureaucracy? Stylized facts of growing administration in Swedish higher education.

IFN Working Paper No. 1399
Posted: 23 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2023
Fredrik Andersson, Henrik Jordahl and Anders Kärnä
Statistics Sweden, Örebro University - School of Business and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

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Organization theory, Sclerosis, Productivity Growth, Bureaucracy, Higher education

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Central Bank Conservatism and Labor Market Regulation

European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 345-363
Posted: 18 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2009
Henrik Jordahl and Stefan Laseen
Örebro University - School of Business and Sveriges Riksbank - Monetary Policy Department

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Central bank independence, labor market regulation, credibility, flexibility, inflation, unemployment