Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: Impacts of past climate variability – lessons for the 21st century

The talk summarizes key findings of state-of-the-art research on how climate variability and change have affected different aspects of human history in medieval and early modern Europe (c. 700–1815 CE

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Professor of History.ABSTRACT The talk will start with summaris

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, StockholmRegister hereWelcome to this research seminar with Anders Sandberg, Ph.D. in computational neuroscience, researcher at IFFS and Senior

Anders Sandberg: Serf's up - Law, AI, Singletons and Leviathan

Research seminar with Anders Sandberg, Ph.D. in computational neuroscience, researcher at IFFS and Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University. Abstract A key problem

Poverty and welfare among children and their families 1968–2010

Research report 2014/2, 78 p. This report studies child poverty, and changes in such poverty both by analyzing the family economy, and directly by using surveys with children themselves. It also compar

The objective of this paper is to examine how family unions or, more precisely, the arrival of children has influenced migration during the three last decades. Both family formation and family dissolu

No increase in child poverty in Sweden. That is the conclusion in a new report written by Carina Mood and Jan O. Jonsson; Ekonomisk utsatthet och välfärd bland barn och deras familjer 1968–2010, where chi

Individual- and country-level factors are brought together in simultaneous analyses of their relationships with perceived stress and work-family conflict for women. The hypotheses predicting higher st

This paper attempts to explain temporal and spatial variation of poverty rates in terms of unemployment insurance and socio-demographic factors, and test the ‘convergence hypothesis’ of the poverty ra

How the state can afford pension and healthcare costs for ageing populations, and who should carry the burden has become a central question. Thus far, focus has been on public transfers while neglecti