in: Social ForcesAbstractWe know that parenthood has different consequences for men’s and women’s careers. Still, the research remains inconclusive on the question of whether this is mainly a conseque

Poverty and welfare among children and their families 1968–2010

Research report 2014/2, 78 p. This report studies child poverty, and changes in such poverty both by analyzing the family economy, and directly by using surveys with children themselves. It also compar

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286 (1902) Abstract We examine the relationship between cognitive ability and childbearing patterns in contemporary Sweden using administrative register data. The top

Population Studies, Volume 71, Issue 1, doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2016.1260755 Abstract Demographic research has paid much attention to the impact of childhood conditions on adult mortality. We focus on o

Maja Fjaestad

I am an expert coordinator at the Centre for Health Crises at KI and Associate Professor at KTH. I previously worked as State Secretary for the Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs and before for strategic development and Nordic cooperation at the Prime Minster’s office. I have also worked as researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH. I have also been visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Desk officer at the Ministry of Industry and political adviser in energy issues to Minister of Energy, Mona Sahlin.

Economics and Philosophy 37 Abstract Economic ordeals are allocation mechanisms that impose non-financial ‘deadweight costs to qualify for a transfer’ (Nichols and Zeckhauser 1982: 372). Examples include

Synthese, Volume 193, Issue 6,  pp. 1967–1981DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0823-0 Abstract This paper explores the different ways in which conditionals can be carriers of good and bad news. I suggest a general

I am Emeritus White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy and Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford. I am also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, and Adjunct Profes

European Journal of Population,  Volume 35, Issue 1, pp 63–85. doi.org/10.1007/s10680-018-9469-1 Abstract A growing literature has demonstrated a relationship between parity and mortality, but the explana

The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores

How can we understand life on the former Swedish Caribbean colony Saint-Barthélemy? This project aims to add to our undestanding using artistic methods as a complement to the juridical documents available in archives.