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02 October, 2024

The refinement paradox and cumulative cultural evolution: Complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity

PLOS Computational Biology Abstract Social learning is common in nature, yet cumulative culture (where knowledge and technology increase in complexity and diversity over time) appears restricted to huma

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Miu, E., Rendell, L., Bowles, S., Boyd, R., Cownden, D., Enquist, M., et al
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12 January, 2016

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03 November, 2020

Improving on and assessing ethical guidelines for digital tracking and tracing systems for pandemics

Ethics and Information Technology Abstract So-called digital tracking and tracing systems (DTTSs) have been proposed as a means to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. There are ethical guidelines and eval

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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17 October, 2019

Completed: Numbers: The relevance of empirical results for philosophy

The purpose of this project is to investigate the relevance of empirical results for the philosophy of mathematics.

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07 March, 2016

Poverty trends during two recessions and two recoveries: Lessons from Sweden 1991—2013

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5:3. DOI 10.1186/s40174-016-0051-8. Abstract We study cross-sectional and long-term poverty in Sweden over a period spanning two recessions, and discuss changes in th

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mood, Carina , , Erik Bihagen Jonsson, Jan O. , , Erik Bihagen
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22 January, 2021

The value of life and the challenge to value aggregation

in: The Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustice, Activism (ed. V. Beck, H. Hahn & R. Lepenies), New York: Springer. 2020. AbstractMultidimensional poverty measures require implicit,

Type of publication: Chapters | Herlitz, Anders , , Hassoun, Nicole & Lucio Esposito
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05 May, 2023

The Future of Work: Augmentation or Stunting?

Philosophy & Technology 36 Abstract The last decade has seen significant improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including robotics, machine vision, speech recognition, and text ge

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim , Furendal, Markus
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07 October, 2022

Toward a hybrid theory of how to allocate health-related resources

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Abstract How should scarce health-related resources be allocated? This paper argues that values that apply to these decisions fail to always fully determine what we sh

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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25 May, 2021

Women's experience of child death over the life course: A global demographic perspective

AbstractThe death of a child affects the well-being of parents and families worldwide but very little is known about the scale of this phenomenon. We provide the first global overview of parental bere

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , , Alburez-Gutierrez, Diego & Emilio Zagheni
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19 June, 2024

Aid and child health: A disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on impaired growth

World Development, vol. 182 Abstract Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help reduce stunting or impaired growth among childre

Type of publication: Journal articles | Isaksson, Ann-Sofie , Dick Durevall
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