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Social Assistance dynamics in Sweden: Duration dependence and heterogeneity
Social Science Research (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.07.005 Abstract This article uses data on all persons who ever received Social Assistance (SA) in Sweden 1991–2007 (N = 2,638,68
Limited and Mixed Evidence for System-Sanctioned Change to Protect the Environment: A Replication Study
International review of social psychology, vol 37:1 Abstract Feygina and colleagues (2010, Study 3) reported that people who prefer the status quo can be encouraged towards pro-environmental responses w
How religiosity is transmitted to new generations and what inequality has to do with it
Many things that we deeply care about are related to the topic of religion: gender norms, sexual morals, work ethics but also altruism, charity and community. It is therefore an important question to Contrary to what you might expect, religion continues to play an important role in countries all over the world, as the figure shows.
Costly punishment in the ultimatum game evokes moral concern, in particular when framed as payoff reduction.
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
The ‘acting native’ hypothesis: Evidence from classrooms in four European countries
Labour Economics Abstract In analogy to the controversial ‘acting White’ narrative for racial achievement gaps among US children, I explore whether migrant background pupils in Europe are exposed to sim
Investigating sequences in ordinal data: A new approach with adapted evolutionary models.
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
Freedom, Equality, and Justifiability to All: Reinterpreting Liberal Legitimacy
The Journal of Ethics Abstract According to John Rawls’s famous Liberal Principle of Legitimacy, the exercise of political power is legitimate only if it is justifiable to all citizens. The currently dominternalistexternalistinclusive
Money of the future
Most of this seminar will be in Swedish. One of the presentations, however, will be in English. In Sweden the amounts of payments made with cash are decreasing and it has been claimed that in 2030 we w
A Weighted Configuration Model and Inhomogeneous Epidemics
2011. Journal of Statistics Physics 145:1368-1384. AbstractA random graph model with prescribed degree distribution and degree dependent edge weights is introduced. Each vertex is independently equipped
Knowing the Game: Motivations and Skills Among Partisan Policy Professionals
"Knowing the Game: Motivations and Skills Among Partisan Policy Professionals", Journal of professions and organizations, Advance Access published September 21, 2016, doi: 10.1093/jpo/jow008 Abstract This