Search for dissertations about: "peers"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 320 swedish dissertations containing the word peers.
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21. Type 1 diabetes in children with non-Swedish background : epidemiology and clinical outcome
Abstract : Sweden holds third place of diabetes incidence in young people after Finland and Sardinia. One fifth of the population is nowadays of foreign descent. We have a substantial number of immigrants from countries where the risk for T1D is considerably lower. READ MORE
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22. Understanding the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin : Longitudinal investigations of inter-origin friendship formation
Abstract : The present dissertation aims to understand some of the opportunities for, and influences on, the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin in Sweden. Informed by previous research, the dissertation suggests that successful social integration involves friendship formation between peers of similar origins (intra-origin friendship formation) as well as friendship formation between peers of different origins (inter-origin friendship formation). READ MORE
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23. Family and Friends : Essays on Applied Microeconometrics
Abstract : This doctoral thesis consists of 4 self-contained chapters, bound together by their focus on household behavior and social interaction: Bargaining over Risk: The Impact of Decision Power on Household Portfolios. This paper provides an analysis of the internal financial decision-making process of households, employing a unique panel of household finances of the entire Swedish population. READ MORE
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24. Essays in Political Economy and Economic Sociology
Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained papers within political economy and economic sociology. The first paper studies how the 2015 refugee wave impacted the vote share of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) during the 2018 Swedish parliamentary elections. READ MORE
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25. There's more to the picture than meets the ear - Gaze behavior during communication in children with hearing impairment
Abstract : Many children and adolescents with hearing impairment struggle to meet school demands. The difficulties can be traced to the characteristics of the hearing impairment, and to adverse consequences on language development, often overlooked in diagnostics and intervention. READ MORE