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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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27 June, 2018

Using Register Data to Estimate Causal Effects of Interventions: An Ex Post Synthetic Control-Group Approach

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 45, pp.50-55. Abstract Aims:It is common in the context of evaluations that participants have not been selected on the basis of transparent participation criteria,

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus , & Ryszard Szulkin
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11 November, 2021

The climate ethics program: "Interdisciplinary at its best"

"Innovative, ambitious, and extremely well managed." A mid-term evaluation of the research program Climate Ethics and future generations praises it for being interdisciplinary at its best. Riksbankens

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02 August, 2005

Continued Work or Retirement? Preferred Exit-age in Western European countries?

Through multi-level analyses, this study evaluates how welfare regime generosity as well as production regime coordination explains cross-national patterns of retirement preferences across twelve West

Type of publication: Working papers | Ingrid Esser
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25 March, 2021

Resisting assimilation – ethnic boundary maintenance among Jews in Sweden

in: Distinktion: Journal of Social TheoryAbstractThis article evaluates Andreas Wimmer’s theory of ethnic boundary making by applying it to the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, a

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , & David Grobgeld
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03 November, 2020

Improving on and assessing ethical guidelines for digital tracking and tracing systems for pandemics

Ethics and Information Technology Abstract So-called digital tracking and tracing systems (DTTSs) have been proposed as a means to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. There are ethical guidelines and eval

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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12 March, 2019

Peter Edlund: Constructing an Arbiter of Status: A Study of the European Research Council's Emergence in the Field of Science

Peter Edlund, Researcher at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University. Abstract In my presentation, I will develop a theoretical account that centers on how certain actors are constructed i

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15 February, 2017

Legal Power and the Right to Vote: Does the Right to Vote Confer Power?

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 30(1), 5–22. Abstract It is widely believed that voting rights confer power to individual voters as well as to the collective body of the electorate. This pa

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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07 April, 2016

Completed: The boundary problem in democratic theory

What decisions should be made with the democratic method? The core question of this project is: Who should have a right to take part in which decisions?

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21 January, 2021

On the Methodological Difficulty of Identifying Implicit Racial Beliefs and Stereotypes

American Sociological Review 85(6):1117-1122. In “Status Characteristics, Implicit Bias, and the Production of Racial Inequality,” Melamed, Munn, Barry, Montgomery, and Okuwobi present an innovative an

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , & Filip Olsson
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