Professor Jesper Strömbäck, The Swedish Commission on the Future Seminars host is Stefan Svallfors. The seminars are free of charge and take place at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute’s seminar room at Holl

Social Science Quarterly, 838-856 Abstract Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outc

This handbook explains the simulation model IFSIM, which is an agent based simulation model written in JAVA. The model is constructed for analyzing demographic and economic issues and its aim is to in

Analyzing political trust among immigrants in Sweden Arbetsrapport 2011 nr. 10 Abstract A healthy democracy demands critical citizens. But to what extent is trust in political and judicial institutions a

There are two competing hypotheses regarding demographic processes and technological progress. One holds that a rapidly growing adult population stimulates technological progress, while the other hold

By analysing pension reforms in three Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland and Sweden that apply different institutional solutions in their old-age security programmes – the paper argues that the polit

The past decades school segregation has become increasingly common in Sweden. Today Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council), published information on which projects will get funding for five ye

Lucia Karens

I have a bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics. I am currently finishing my Master's degree in Machine Learning. At the Institute for Futures Studies, I work as a research assistant for the project E, led by . The aim of the project is to investigate how stereotypes about minority and immigrant groups have evolved over time in Sweden and Finland, by analysing several decades' worth of newspaper articles. My main tasks are running the quantitative analysis of the data with various machine learning methods, as well as visualizing the results.

Political Science Research and Methods, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 449-466. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 Abstract This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. I

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