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I provide evidence on the impact of pre-primary school expansion on maternal labour supply in the context of South Africa. I draw on administrative data from the South African National Census in 2001 and 2011, and a Community Survey in 2007, to extract household information. My identification strategy exploits the staggered timing and intensity in the expansion of pre-primary school facilities acr
If cars had developed as fast as processors they would go at 470,000 mph, get 100,000 miles to the gallon, and cost 3 cents" claims Paul Ottelini, Intel CEO 2005-2013. This serves as a reminder of how fast the field of nanoelectronics is developing due to constant demand for faster and more energy efficient integrated circuits. The still ongoing electronics revolution was accelerated by the i
Automated Software testing is becoming increasingly popular, which in turn creates more information that has to be analyzed. At the software company Qlik a tool called NIOCAT is used to create clusters of failed test cases thought to originate from the same code defect. The clustering is done in order to decrease the ever increasing amount of manual analysis needed to be done with regards to softw
Med anledning av en ökad medierapportering av assistansfusk har målet med uppsatsen varit att analysera nyhetsrapporteringen om detta fenomen. Syftet är att undersöka uppkomsten av begreppet assistansfusk, och att avgöra om det finns någon diskrepans mellan assistanstagarnas erfarenheter och mediekonstruktionen av personlig assistans. Metoden jag använt är kritisk innehållsanalys. Resultatet visar
Mediernas framställning av Migrationsverket Denna uppsats undersöker och analyserar hur svenska dags- och kvällstidningar, inom ämnet strategisk kommunikation, porträtterar den svenska myndigheten Mi-grationsverket i media under en av myndighetens mest krävande perioder, under pågående flyktingkris hösten 2015. Idag fungerar dags- och kvällstidningar som en brygga mellan myndighetens information o
The study presents a critical analysis of unequal social geographies in the city of Tehran. It aims to identify degrees of access to different aspects of social reproduction with particular attention to the worse-off districts. The issue of unevenness in Tehran has been discussed by Iranian economists and geographers criticizing bad policies, undemocratic state, and corruption. However, political
Văcărești Urban Wetland, a recently instituted nature park, is situated in Bucharest (Romania). It has been established over the last 27 years within an abandoned retention polder, built during the communist era. Although the area has been disregarded since the construction of the polder ceased, the importance of the Văcărești ecosystem was recently acknowledged by various international associatio
In this thesis a water cooled duct and the surrounding cooling system, used for cooling hot off-gas from an electric arch furnace, is modelled for simulation. The model is then used to devise control strategies to keep the cooling water temperature at a given temperature to then be able to supply power to the district heating. The model consists of the heat transfer between the off-gas, steel of t
Uppsatsen handlar om relativt nyanlända invandrare som fått uppehållstillstånd i Sverige med flyktingskäl och som har utländska ingenjörsutbildningar. Den handlar också om företag och organisationer som anställer ingenjörer. Till grund för uppsatsen ligger kvalitativa öppna intervjuer med fem invandrare och fyra företrädare för företag, samtliga baserade i Kristianstad med omgivningar. KompletteraThe essay is about relatively recent immigrants with a residence permit in Sweden with refugee status and foreign engineering degrees. It is also about the companies and organizations that hire engineers. The essay is based on qualitative open interviews with five immigrants and four representatives of the companies, all localized in Kristianstad and the surrounding area. Additional interviews wer
In 2015, The Swedish central bank; the Riksbank, decided to lower the repo rate to -0,1 percent. The idea was to stimulate inflation in order to reach the target inflation of 2% according to CPI. The decision was and is controversial. Even if the inflation based on CPI is very low, the inflation on asset prices especially in the housing market is very high. Meanwhile, the household debt is increa
When founding the modern human rights protection, the UN did to a great extent have focus on protecting men and men’s rights, even though one of the core principles of human rights is their universality. Over the past few decades work has been done to include women’s perspectives in the human rights protection. The UN has chosen a dual strategy, where women’s rights are both protected in gender-sp
It has been previously shown that an increase in the relative value of tea increases female survival rate by enhancing their economic value. By combining contemporary district-level census data with historical data on tea production, in this paper I examine whether contemporary regional variations in gender disparities across India can be traced back to the tea production induced by the British Ea
This Bachelor thesis aim to increase the understanding of expressions of hate, hatred and vitriol on the Internet, in other words cyber bullying. Furthermore the study aims to increase the understanding of how the phenomenon is spread. The essay focus to embody the question of the liability issue within the phenomenon and how it can be prevented by strategic communication. Based on previous resear
Syftet med uppsatsen är att ta reda på hur olika fundamentala bestämningsfaktorer har påverkat den svenska kronkursen under perioden Q1 1996 till Q4 2015. Modeller som strävar efter att bestämma växelkursens förklaringsfaktorer har genom historien ofta haft missvisande resultat. En anledning till detta är att data på variablerna ofta är av icke-stationär typ och vanliga OLS-regressioner som genomf
Portfolio choice theory have in the last decades seen a rise in utilising more advanced utility functions for finding optimal portfolios. This is partly a consequence of the relatively simplistic nature of the quadratic utility, which is often assumed in the classical mean-variance framework. There have been some suggestions on how to find optimal portfolios in ac- cordance to more realistic utili
The aim of this study was to highlight how in personal blogs people who grew up with one or both parents that misused alcohol or drugs narrated and described their experiences of how their daily lives was when they lived at home, how they cope with difficulties that occurred and how they described their past has affected their physical development in adulthood. The method I chose to analyze this w
A major avenue in the study of the Galaxy is the investigation of stellar populations and Galactic chemical evolution by stellar spectroscopy. Due to the dust obscuration in the line-of-sight, stars in the plane and toward the centre of the Galaxy can only be observed in the near-IR wavelength region. Important questions can thus be addressed by observing stars in the near-IR, a field that is in r
The aim of the thesis is to analyse young women's experiences of housing in contemporary Sweden and the meanings they give to the place called ‘home’. Eleven women, aged 20-28, were interviewed with focus on the experiences of moving away from the parental home. Experiences and symbolic meanings of places are analysed using the concept ‘sense of place’, meaning that the individual creates its
Sports has been shown to have great potential on influencing youths social, physical and psychological development. But there has been a smaller interest for the developmental aspects of sports for socially vulnerable youths. In social services investigative work with youths there seem to be opportunities for social workers to look in to aspects of sports potential for socially vulnerable youth. T
Denna uppsats har som sitt primära syfte att undersöka om det i praktiken finns ett samband mellan kunskap om olika prefix och allmän ordkunskap. I andrahand syftar uppsatsen till att ta reda på vilka skillnader det finns i prefixkunskap och ordkunskapsförståelse mellan förstaspråksanvändare och andraspråksanvändare. För att göra detta har elever på gymnasiet, som läser någon av svenskkurserna SVE
