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Countering Protection Rackets Using Legal and Social Approaches: An Agent-Based Test
Hindawi, Volume 2018, Article ID 3568085, 16 pages, doi.org/10.1155/2018/3568085. Abstract Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically combat protection rackets
Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022, vol. 20, pp. 1–32. Abstract In this study, we provide an account of mortality levels in Sweden in 2020, focusing on both excess mortality and mortality due t
Sex Selection for Daughters: Demographic Consequences of Female-Biased Sex Ratios
Population Research and Policy Review 41, p. 1619–1639 Abstract Modern fertility techniques allow parents to carry out preimplantation sex selection. Sex selection for non-medical purposes is legal in m
Gender essentialism makes segregation persistent
Socially constructed beliefs about biological gender differences, i.e. gender essentialism, can to a large extent explain the remaining gender segregation and inequality. That’s one of the conclusions

Completed: Sustainable population in the time of climate change
What level of population is sustainable, given the available resources and a certain level of well-being? How can we achieve a stable or declining population?
When Birth Spacing Does and Does Not Matter for Child Survival: An International Comparison using the DHS
Demography journal Abstract A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk of infant mortality in developing countries, but recent work on other perinatal o
Thomas Christiano: The Tension between the Nature and the Norm of Voluntary Exchange
Thomas Christiano, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona ABSTRACTI argue we can make a great deal of progress in understanding the promise and the perils of voluntary exchange by elabora