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11 March, 2019

Birth Intervals and Health in Adulthood: A Comparison of Siblings Using Swedish Register Data

Demography, Volume 55, Issue 3,  pp 929–955. Abstract A growing body of research has examined whether birth intervals influence perinatal outcomes and child health as well as long-term educational and s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & Kieron J. Barclay
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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

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07 November, 2016

Schools and segregation – a positive example

The importance of socio-economic background will become increasingly important for school success. But segregation in the school area is steadily growing and inequality is increasing, a development tha

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20 September, 2024

Incommensurability, the sequence argument, and the Pareto principle

Philosophical Studies Abstract Parfit (Theoria 82:110–127, 2016) responded to the Sequence Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion by introducing imprecise equality. However, Parfit’s notion of imprecise degrees of incommensurabilityeveryone

Type of publication: Journal articles | Arrhenius, Gustaf , Stefánsson, H. Orri
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14 January, 2025

Degrees of Incommensurability and the Sequence Argument

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.),Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generations vol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract Parfit (2016) responded to the Sequence Argument for the Repugnan

Type of publication: Working papers | Arrhenius, Gustaf , Stefánsson, H. Orri
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28 June, 2019

Daniel J. Benjamin & Ori Heffetz: What Do Happiness Data Mean? Evidence from a Survey of Happiness Respondents

Daniel J. Benjamin, Professor (Research) of Economics, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern CaliforniaOri Heffetz, Associate Professor of Economics, Cornell University, Samu

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06 March, 2020

Defining Social Housing: A Discussion on the Suitable Criteria

Housing, Theory and Society 36(2): 149–166. doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2018.1459826. Abstract The term social housing has been characterized as a “floating signifier”, i.e. a term with no agreed-upon meanin

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn , & Granath Hansson, A.
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29 October, 2022

Vox: Hilary Greaves is the world's leading philosopher of the long-term future

Hilary Greaves, professor of philosophy at Oxford and researcher at IFFS, is the world's leading philosopher of the long-term future, according to the American news site Vox. Among the work that Vox m

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22 January, 2018

Partha Dasgupta: Earth's Carrying Capacity and Optimum Global Population

Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge. ABSTRACT In this lecture I study fertility choice in the face of socio-ecological constraints. I assume that when cho

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17 September, 2018
Staffan Julén

Staffan Julén

I am Head of communications at the Institute for Futures Studies, documentary film director and producer. At the institute I have among other things been working on a research project financed by the where I examined how artistic subjective narration can develop the documentary film. 

Head of communications, Artistic Researcher
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