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13 March, 2014

Educational institutions as mating markets: The case of Sweden

Juho Härkönen, Stockholm University Schools are considered efficient mating markets--that is, structured social settings in which partners meet--and feature prominently in explanations for patterns in

Juho Härkönen, Stockholms Universitet
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11 January, 2024

Is there a rating bias of job candidates based on gender and parenthood? A laboratory experiment on hiring for an accounting job

Acta Sociologica Abstract Biased practices by employers have been suggested as one possible cause for the observed gender disparities in labor market outcomes. While US-based laboratory experiments show

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus , Erlandsson, A. & M. Gähler
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09 April, 2019

Extended Preferences and Interpersonal Comparisons of Well‐being

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Published online 7 November 2016. doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12334 Abstract An important objection to preference‐satisfaction theories of well‐being is that these the

Type of publication: Journal articles | Greaves, Hilary , & Harvey Lederman
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26 February, 2020
Creating happy animals in order to eat them: Jeff McMahan and Tim Campbell podcast

Creating happy animals in order to eat them: Jeff McMahan and Tim Campbell

In recent debates about the ethics of eating animals, some have advanced the claim that if people cause animals to exist and give them good lives in order to be able to eat them, then even if the anim

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14 January, 2020

Jeff McMahan: Creating Happy Animals in Order to Eat Them

Jeff McMahan is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a fellow of Corpus Christi College. Abst

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19 December, 2016

Steffen Mau: The Metric We - On the Quantification of the Social

Steffen Mau is Professor of Macrosociology at Humboldt University of Berlin. ABSTRACTThe quantification of the social is a mega-trend transforming social relationships and reformatting social life. Be

Prof. Dr. Steffen Mau, Macrosociology at Humboldt University.
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09 February, 2018

Kimberly Nicholas: From Population to A Child: Personalizing Future Generations and Climate Change

Kimberly Nicholas, Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Lund University in Sweden. ABSTRACT Based on questions from high school students, Seth Wynes and I set out to identify which personal

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04 July, 2016

What insights can data visualization techniques generate?

Visualizing information is a way to communicate scientific results efficiently and in an appealing way. This is particularly important if scientists want to communicate their results not only to their

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22 October, 2013

Ernst Fehr on the individual and society at seminar

Ernst Fehr On the 7th of December 2012 the tipped Nobel Prize-candidate and Professor of Economics Ernst Fehr came to visit the Institute for Futures Studies in order to hold the seminar "The Weave of

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