NoWeDe Workshop: The Welfare State - Past and Present Developments

The Nordic Welfare Developments (NoWeDe) project has aimed at studying how the welfare state emerged historically in the Nordic context and of its possible emergence in developing countries in Africa and Latin America today. This workshop marks the end of the project, and results in the fields of history, political science, and economics will be presented.

Time and place: Oct. 20, 2022 10:30 AM – 7:00 PM, Kulturhuset - Youngs gate 6, 0181 Oslo

A photograph of people walking down Karl Johan in Oslo

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Program

10:30	Coffee
10:45	Peter Sandholt Jensen: Institutions and industrialization: Evidence from the Free City of Eskilstuna
11:30	Haakon Gjerløw: Retrospective voting in hybrid regimes: A Pre-analysis plan
12:15	Lunch
13:15	Sirianne Dahlum: Social norms and democratic support: Experimental evidence from Norway
14:00	Kalle Moene: Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining
14:45	Break
15:00	Jan-Eivind Myhre: The making of the Norwegian model. Norway 1814-1914
15:45	Carl-Henrik Knudsen: Education Policies and Systems across Modern History: A Global Dataset
16:30	Coffee and cake
17:00	Tore Wig: Did Industrialization Cause Democratization? Quasi-experimental evidence from the industrial revolution in Norway
17:30	Andreas Kotsadam: Effects of speedschools in Niger
18:00	Anders Kjelsrud: Strikes
18:30	Jo Thori Lind: The NoWeDe data collection

This is a closed event. Please contact Jo Thori Lind (j.t.lind@econ.uio.no) if you would like to participate in the workshop as there are limited spots available.

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