Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 69, p. 59-64. Abstract The ultimatum game is a common economic experiment in which some participants reject another's unfair offer of how to split some

Mark Jaccard, Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, VancouverAbstractThere are obvious reasons why for three decades most jurisdictions have failPublic surveys and observation of real-world GHG reduction successes suggest that explicit carbon pricing (carbon tax and perhaps cap-and-trade) can be substantially more politically difficult than certain regulatory policies for shifting the energy system on to a deep decarbonization trajectory. Nonetheless, some people have argued that carbon pricing is an essential GHG reduction policy, suggesting that sincere politicians must do carbon pricing no matter how politically difficult. But the claim that carbon pricing is essential is factually incorrect. Deep decarbonization can be achieved entirely with regulations. Regulatory policies are unlikely to be as economically efficient as carbon pricing. But not all regulations perform identically when it comes to the economic-efficiency criterion. Flexible regulations have some attributes that make them low cost relative to regulations that require adoption of specific technologies.This talk provides evidence that assesses both the relative economic efficiency of policies and their relative political acceptability. The findings reported here suggest that some kinds of flexible regulations can perform significantly better than explicit carbon pricing in terms of relative political cost per tonne reduced while performing only marginally worse in terms of economic cost per tonne reduced. Presumably, this type of trade-off information could be of value to politicians who sincerely want deep decarbonization but would also like to be rewarded with re-election so that they and competing politicians see the value in ambitious and sustained GHG reduction efforts.

The report explores connections between migration, social exclusion, and informalization of the labor market with a focus on domestic services in Stockholm. Through an interview study, the author iden

Dr.Katya Rhodes comes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academicresearch findings and government policy-making experiences on how to designpolitically acceptable and effective policies to mitigate climate change usingBritish Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. 

Nature Communications  Abstract The health co-benefits of CO2 mitigation can provide a strong incentive for climate policy through reductions in air pollutant emissions that occur when targeting shared s

Dr. Katya Rhodescomes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academic and policy-making experiences on how to achieve climate success using British Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. Abs

Katya Rhodes: Designing policies for climate success. Lessons from British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Katya Rhodes comes from British Columbia, Canada, to share her academic and policy-making experiences on how to achieve climate success using British Columbia’s climate policies as a case study. Dr

Evaluated by a robot. An experimental-ethnographic study of the automation of the recruitment process in a Swedish municipality

In a unique project the researchers will study the differences between an AI-based interview robot's and human recruiters' evaluations of jobseekers in a Swedish municipality during a year.

Democratization, vol 27, issue 5, p. 699-716 Abstract Within a few years of the historic Arab uprisings of 2011, popular mobilization dissipated amidst instability in many Arab countries. We trace the r

Is it possible to reduce individual implicit bias in organizational settings?

A study of social assistance officers Implicit bias reduction is a popular form of antibias training when organizations engage their employees in diversity training. It remains popular, despite limite