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Childbearing of Students: The Case of Sweden
This paper examines childbearing behavior among Swedish students, and mothers’ enrolment in education in 1984-1999. The student financial aid reform in 1989 had no noticeable impact on students’ child
Director of innovation to the board
We welcome a new member to our board, Andreas Muranyi Scheutz! He is Director of research and innovation in Region Stockholm and has previously had the same position at the Swedish embassy in New Delh
The Matthew effect in political science: head start and key reforms important for democratization
Are some countries better equipped from the onset of a democratization process to become democracies? We compared successful and failed episodes of liberalization over the period 1900 to 2018 to exami
Three Routes to a Pension Reform. Politics and Institutions in Reforming Pensions in Denmark, Finland and Sweden
By analysing pension reforms in three Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland and Sweden that apply different institutional solutions in their old-age security programmes – the paper argues that the polit
Family Relations, Children and Interregional Mobility, 1970-2000
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
Why Morality and Other Forms of Normativity are Sometimes Dramatically Directly Collectively Self-Defeating
Arbetsrapport 2024:3Del av Studies in the Ethics of Coordination and Climate Change Abstract In a prisoner’s dilemma, if everyone follows the strategy of self-interest, then everyone is certain to be wo
Stefan Svallfors keynote speaker at postdoctoral conference on the future of welfare state studies
The conference Future of Welfare State Studies Conference was held in Umeå for postdoctoral researchers, on May 15–17. It included parallel sessions focusing on the most central aspects in the researc' address had the title .
Former Deputy Prime Minister appointed new Chairman of the Board at the Institute for Futures Studies
On the first of January, 2022 Åsa Romson becomes the new chairman of the board at the Institute for Futures Studies. She will replace Catharina Elmsäter Svärd, who has had the position since 2016. Åsa
Anders Ekholm
I have had the position as vice president and advisor at the Institute for Futures Studies and before that I worked as head of analysis at the Ministry of Social Affairs, with research concerning our
Pitcovski’s explanation-based account of harm
Philosophical Studies Abstract In a recent article in this journal, Eli Pitcovski puts forward a novel, explanation-based account of harm. We seek to show that Pitcovski’s account, and his arguments in
