Search Results for:
half
01 January, 2011

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

Type of publication: Journal articles |
Read more
12 October, 2009

Stability of College Rankings. A Study of Relative Earnings Estimates Applying Different Methods and Models on Swedish Data

This study investigates how stabile the ranking system of Swedish universities is in relation to future incomes of their alumni. Amongst the findings, the ranking of colleges varies both across method

Type of publication: Working papers | Marie Gartell
Read more
26 June, 2018

The Mental Health Advantage of Immigrant‐Background Youth: The Role of Family Factors

Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 79, Issue 2, pp. 419-436. Abstract Children of immigrant background, despite problems with acculturation, poverty, and discrimination, have better mental health th

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mood, Carina , & Sara Brolin Låftman Jonsson, Jan O. , & Sara Brolin Låftman
Read more
02 October, 2014

Symposium in logic and philosophy

On the 21st of October The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will arrange a seminar with and about The Rolf Schock Laureate in logic and philosophy, professor Derek Parfit. Other speakers include Gusta

On the 21st of October The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will arrange a seminar with and about The Rolf Schock Laureate in logic and philosophy, professor Derek Parfit.
Read more
14 August, 2023

Julia Nefsky: Expected Utility, the Pond Analogy and Imperfect Duties

Plats: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmResearch seminar with Julia Nefsky, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Toronto. Register hereAbstractThis talk brings to

Read more
01 February, 2017

We welcome Berit Högman to our board

The Swedish government has appointed Berit Högman to the board of the Institute for Futures Studies during 2017–2022. Berit Högman is Deputy Group Leader (SocDem) in the Swedish Parliament and has been

Read more
17 September, 2012

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mood, Carina
Read more
17 June, 2015

The not-very-rich and the very poor. Poverty persistence and poverty concentration in Sweden

Journal of European Social Policy, Published online before print June 17, 2015, doi: 10.1177/0958928715588707 We question the common description of poverty in Western countries as largely brief and tra

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mood, Carina
Read more
02 February, 2018

Women's rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012.

European Journal of Political Research 56: 735–756. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12201 Abstract What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Wang Y-T, Sundström A, Jansson F & Lindberg SI
Read more
26 June, 2018

Near-repeat shootings in contemporary Sweden 2011 to 2015

Security Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, pp 73–92, doi:10.1057/s41284-017-0089-y Abstract The concept of near-repeat patterns illustrates how crimes are clustered in space and time, with a crime event often s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Rostami, Amir , ,Gerell, Manne & Anders Sandholm
Read more