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E-sport: en idrett? - En kvantitatv studie av studenters syn på esport som idrett
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)Gjennom en spørreundersøkelse av 172 studenter ble det i denne studien undersøkt studenters syn på e-sport som idrett og faktorer som forårsaker dette synet. Resultatene viste at det generelt er splittede meninger om e-sport ... -
Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Employing a comparative experimental design drawing on over 18,000 interviews across eleven countries on four continents, this article revisits the discussion about the economic and cultural drivers of attitudes towards ... -
Economic and Institutional Performance in Mozambique: Implications for the Coming Resource Boom
(Master thesis, 2013)The resource curse literature predicts how both aid and natural resources leads to real appreciation, hurting competitiveness and disfavoring the producing sector, which is bad news for a nation at the outset of its ... -
Economic Freedom vs. Egalitarianism: An Empirical Test of Weak & Strong Sustainability, 1970-2018
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Many argue that free markets drive climate change and harm environmental sustainability. They suggest that democratic controls over profligate capital and unregulated markets better secure economic wellbeing and environmental ... -
Economic Governance and Homicide: Some Theory and Empirics, 1990 – 2017
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article posits that free-market institutions and practices reduce economic distortions that provide rents for underground organizations, which ultimately form criminogenic environments. Rents from market distortions ... -
Economic performance and Political Trust: The impact of the Financial Crisis on European citizens
(Master thesis, 2013)Trust links ordinary citizens to the institutions that are intended to represent them, and thereby enhancing both the legitimacy and the effectiveness of democratic government (Bianco 1994; Gamson 1968; Braithwaite and ... -
"Economy as Religion"
(Master thesis, 2014)Comparing economy to religion is a fairly common phenomenon when used as a rhetorical tool, but can it also be used analytically? This thesis is based on a sociological reading of three books by Robert Nelson, who defines ... -
Education and democracy: Students in nonviolent resistance
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)Students have often been perceived as important figures in protests for democratic rights, but there still exists little systematic knowledge about protests involving students, both when it comes to their choice of strategies ... -
Education in the news and in the mind. PISA, news media and public opinion in Norway, Sweden and Finland
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has gained popularity in educational debates, and scholars argue that the tests influence national educational governance. It has further been claimed that PISA has ... -
Educational inequalities in adult mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the Asia Pacific region
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objectives In this study, we aim to analyse the relationship between educational attainment and all-cause mortality of adults in the high-income Asia Pacific region. Design This study is a comprehensive systematic review ... -
Educational inequalities in high- vs. low-preventable health conditions: Exploring the fundamental cause theory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Aim: To explore variations in educational gradients or gaps between high- and low-preventable health conditions. Background: This is one of the first European studies to test whether the association between socioeconomic ... -
Educational Inequalities in Mortality Amenable to Healthcare. A Comparison of European Healthcare Systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background Educational inequalities in health and mortality in European countries have often been studied in the context of welfare regimes or political systems. We argue that the healthcare system is the national level ... -
Educational inequalities in risky health behaviours in 21 European countries: findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: It has been suggested that cross-national variation in educational inequalities in health outcomes (e.g. NCDs) is due to cross-national variation in risky health behaviour. In this paper we aim to use highly ... -
Educational level and the risk of mental disorders, substance use disorders and self-harm in different age-groups: A cohort study covering 1,6 million subjects in the Stockholm region
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Objective To investigate the associations between low education and risk of mental disorders, substance use disorders and self-harm in different age-groups. Methods All subjects in Stockholm born between 1931 and ... -
Effect of 5 years of exercise training on the cardiovascular risk profile of older adults: the Generation 100 randomized trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Aims The aim of this study was to compare the effects of 5 years of supervised exercise training (ExComb), and the differential effects of subgroups of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and moderate-intensity continuous ... -
The effect of bio-electro-magnetic-energyregulation therapy on sleep duration and sleep quality among elite players in Norwegian women’s football
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The current study investigated if physical loads peak on game days and if Bio- Electro-Magnetic-Energy-Regulation (BEMER) therapy is affecting sleep duration and sleep quality on nights related to game nights among elite ... -
Effect of readability of political tweets on positive user engagement
(Journal article, 2020)Twitter is one of the essential information environments where novel information join and diffuse through the public discourse via user engagement. Although the previous work has shed light on the role of the content in ... -
Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background The positive effect of education on reducing all-cause adult mortality is known; however, the relative magnitude of this effect has not been systematically quantified. The aim of our study was to estimate the ... -
The effects of social protection policies on health inequalities: Evidence from systematic reviews
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: The welfare state distributes financial resources to its citizens – protecting them in times of adversity. Variations in how such social protection policies are administered have been attributed to important ...