Context: This study is about the teaching method of simulation exercises and is set in a police education context. Simulation exercises are a central part of Swedish police education, and therefore it is of interest to explore how they are used, and for what purpose, by investigating police...

This PhD dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters in the field of Political Development Economics. They are all empirical projects studying decision-making under heterogeneous conditions. In the first chapter, I investigate the causal link between economic expectations and voting in...

This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...

Illicit financial flows (IFFs) constitute a major challenge for development in the Global South, as domestic resource mobilization is imperative for providing crucial public services. While several methods offer to measure the extent of IFFs, each has its benefits and drawbacks. Critically,...

This PhD dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters in the field of development economics. The topic of the first three chapters is human capital in East Africa, whereas the topic of the fourth chapter is measurement of sub-national state capacity. The first chapter studies the effect...

The modern state originated in medieval and early modern Europe, spread to all parts of the world, and quickly became the dominant form of political organization. Quantitative scholarship on the historical development of the modern state has lacked a measure of historical statehood that reflects...

What explains the transition from indirect to direct rule? In medieval and early modern Europe, the feudal nobility posed a significant obstacle to state centralization. Only by weakening the economic and political power of the landed elite were sovereign rulers in a position to impose more...