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Birth Spacing and Parents’ Physical and Mental Health: An Analysis Using Individual and Sibling Fixed Effects
Demography 61(2): 393–418 Abstract An extensive literature has examined the relationship between birth spacing and subsequent health outcomes for parents, particularly for mothers. However, this researc
Tipping Points – Humanity at the Thresholds of the Planet
Exhibition of Tipping Point: Opening 1 June Galärparken, Djurgåren (close to Junibacken) at 5 pm (preview at 4:30 pm). Therafter daily 2-19 June, opens 11 am, last showing 3 pm every day.Seminar series 3, 4, 9 and 14 June, see below.
Social norms and collective threats
Do social norms help dealing with collective threats? This project studies the behavior of people in the face of risk, and asks how social norms can motivate people to cooperate.
Insecurity and political values in the Arab world
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
David Ellerman: Reframing the Labor Question
On Marginal Productivity Theory and the Labor Theory of Property. David Ellerman, Visiting scholar at the University of California in Riverside ABSTRACT Neoclassical economics uses the perfectly competit
The Tyranny of Political Correctness? A Game-Theoretic Model of Social Norms and Implicit Bias
Journal of Applied Philosophy Abstract This article sets out to describe and solve two puzzles that emerge in segregated labour markets (e.g. the USA or Sweden). First, in many hiring contexts people prqualification norm
Claim-based distributive theories
The overarching purpose of this project is to present a framework for claim-based distributive theories. Since scarcity is a ubiquitous societal problem, the project has wide-reaching relevance for society.
Cumulative exposure to disadvantage and the intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood effects
Journal of Economic Geography (available online) Abstract:Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual
The Constant Gap: Parenthood Premiums in Sweden 1968–2010
in: Social ForcesAbstractWe know that parenthood has different consequences for men’s and women’s careers. Still, the research remains inconclusive on the question of whether this is mainly a conseque
Desire, Expectation, and Invariance
Mind, Volume 125, Issue 499, Pp. 691-725. Abstract The Desire-as-Belief thesis (DAB) states that any rational person desires a proposition exactly to the degree that she believes or expects the proposit
