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I use randomized controlled-trials (RCT), lab experiments, and theory to investigate issues related to education, health, and behavioral economics. I am especially interested in studying how incentive

This issue is about unexpected futures in five separate areas: demography, medicine, the environment, superpowers and technology. Contents Is it harder to foresee the future nowadays?Arne Jernelöv ImaginArne Jernelöv

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

Harper Collins India’s air pollution is a deadly threat. Will its politics meet the challenge? Exposure to the world’s worst air pollution kills over a million Indians each year. It also affects childr

“Who in your class would you not like to sit next to?” This question was posed to almost 5000 pupils (age 14–15) at Swedish high schools 2010/2011. Many adolescents experience systematic rejection duri

Tim Bartley is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University. He is an organizational, political, and economic sociologist with particular interests in globalization, labor,

Tim Bartley: Popular understandings of labor and environmental problems in global supply chains

Perceptions of distant problems. Popular understandings of labor and environmental problems in global supply chains Tim Bartley is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm Univers

In 2007, the Swedish gambling agency ran a simple gambling game called LIMBO. Gamblers were invited to stake 10 kronor on a number of their choice between 1 and 99,999. The person choosing the smalles

The global population has increased dramatically since the year 1900 from approximately 1,6 billion to today's 8 billion. The UN estimates that world population will reach 11 billion by the year 2100.