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- Svensson, Mikael, 1980, et al.
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Adolescent alcohol and illicit drug use among first- and second-generation immigrants in Sweden.
- 2010
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Ingår i: Scandinavian journal of public health. - London : SAGE Publications. - 1651-1905 .- 1403-4948. ; 38:2, s. 184-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article compares adolescent alcohol and illicit drug use among first- and second-generation immigrants from Nordic, non-Nordic European and non-European countries with that of the native Swedish majority population.
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- Krüger, Niclas A., et al.
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Good times are drinking times : empirical evidence on business cycles and alcohol sales in Sweden 1861-2000
- 2010
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Ingår i: Applied Economics Letters. - Oxfordshire: United Kingdom : Routledge. - 1350-4851 .- 1466-4291. ; 17:6, s. 543-546
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article studies the relationship between the business cycle and alcohol sales in Sweden using a data set for the years 1861-2000. Using wavelet-based band-pass filtering, it is found that there is a pro-cyclical relationship, i.e. alcohol sales increases in short-term economic upturns. Using moving window techniques, we see that the pro-cyclical relationship holds over the entire time period. We also find that alcohol sales are a long-memory process with nonstationary behaviour, i.e. a shock in alcohol sales has persistent effects.
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- Svensson, Mikael, 1980-, et al.
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Adolescents alcohol-use and economic conditions : a multilevel analysis of data from a period with big economic changes
- 2010
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Ingår i: European Journal of Health Economics. - New York, USA : Springer. - 1618-7598 .- 1618-7601. ; 11:6, s. 533-541
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines how the unemployment rate is related to adolescent alcohol use and experience of binge drinking during a time period characterized by big societal changes. The paper uses repeated cross-sectional adolescent survey data from a Swedish region, collected in 1988, 1991, 1995, 1998, 2002 and 2005, and merges this with data on local unemployment rates for the same time periods. Individual level frequency of alcohol use as well as experience of binge drinking is connected to local level unemployment rate to estimate the relationship using multilevel modeling. The model includes municipality effects controlling for time-invariant differences between municipalities as well as year fixed effects controlling for municipality-invariant changes over time in alcohol use. The results show that the unemployment rate is negatively associated with adolescents' alcohol use and the experience of binge drinking. When the unemployment rate increases, more adolescents do not drink at all. Regular drinking (twice per month or more) is, on the other hand, unrelated to the unemployment rate. Examining gender-differences in the relationship, it is shown that the results are driven by behavior in girls, whereas drinking among boys does not show any significant relationship with changes in the unemployment rate.
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- Svensson, Mikael, 1980-
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Alcohol use and social interactions among adolescents in Sweden : do peer effects exist within and/or between the majority population and immigrants?
- 2010
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Ingår i: Social Science and Medicine. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-9536 .- 1873-5347. ; 70:11, s. 1858-1864
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Are adolescents who attend schools with a high level of alcohol use and binge drinking more likely to use alcohol and binge drink themselves? This paper analyzes peer effects in adolescent drinking based on a survey of 13,070 adolescents conducted in Sweden in 2005. The empirical analysis uses a multi-level logistic model to account for non-observable heterogeneity between the schools and the results show that attending a school with a high level of alcohol use and frequent binge drinking is a strong predictor of alcohol use and binge drinking for the individual. Hardly any significant interaction effects are detected, implying that peer influence is similar across different adolescent sub-groups. Looking at adolescents with different ethnic backgrounds, it is found that the drinking-pattern of the Swedish majority population has a significant effect on drinking by Swedish individuals and immigrants from Nordic and European countries, but no effect on drinking by immigrants from non-European countries.
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- Svensson, Mikael, 1980-
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Cost-benefit analysis
- 2010
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Ingår i: 21st century economics. - London : Sage Publications. - 9781412979290 ; , s. 275-286, s. 275-286
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Svensson, Mikael, 1980-
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Economic upturns are good for your heart but watch out for accidents : a study on Swedish regional data 1976-2005
- 2010
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Ingår i: Applied Economics. - Oxfordshire, United Kingdom : Routledge. - 0003-6846 .- 1466-4283. ; 42:5, s. 615-625
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the relationship between the regional unemployment rate in total and cause-specific mortality in Sweden during 1976-2005. Overall mortality is unrelated to changes in the unemployment rate, while the biggest cause of death (heart disease) decreases when the unemployment rate decreases. At the same time, other accidents, including job-related accidents, increases when the unemployment rate decreases. Swedish evidence provide no support for the US research findings, that 'short-term decreases in the unemployment rate are bad for your health', in general.
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