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The effect of number of siblings on adult mortality: Evidence from Swedish registers for cohorts born between 1938 and 1972
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
The Constant Gap: Parenthood Premiums in Sweden 1968–2010
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
The Interplay between Employment and Family Trajectories Across the Life Course
Anette Eva Fasang, Humboldt-University Berlin & WZB Berlin Social Science Center The Interplay between Employment and Family Trajectories Across the Life Course: Germany and the United States in Co
Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory
1998. Cambridge University Press.
Anna Lührmann: Walking the Talk. Which Parties Threaten Democracy?
AbstractThe recent increase of democratic declines around the world -- what Lührmann and Lindberg(2019) have dubbed "third wave of autocratization'' -- has sparked a new generation of studies on the t
Personhood and legal status: reflections on the democratic rights of corporations
Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 47:1, pp. 13-28., doi: 10.5553/NJLP/.000068. Introduction Corporations are regularly ascribed rights and duties, yet few believe they should have the right to part
History of the Institute
Throughout history, people have consulted everything from oracles to crystal balls in order to predict the future. But it was not until the 1960s that interest developed in a more systematic study of
The Role of Education for Intergenerational Income Mobility: A comparison of the United States, Great Britain, and Sweden
Social Forces, Volume 96, Issue 1, pp. 121–152, doi.org/10.1093/sf/sox051 Abstract Previous studies have found that intergenerational income persistence is relatively high in the United States and Brita

Wlodek Rabinowicz
I am senior professor of practical philosophy at Lund University. After defending my doctoral dissertation in Uppsala in 1979, I remained there as associate professor in practical philosophy. 1994-95 and a former editor of and .