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William MacAskill: Should I donate now, or invest and donate later?
William MacAskill, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford ABSTRACTSuppose you are a philanthropist, and want to help others by as much as possible with your money. Should you dona
Why AI is so alert to racism
In a new study of political values among American employees in the industry that is currently shaping the digitized society and its future - the tech industry - researchers found a "unique" dominance
How does Birth Order and Number of Siblings Effect Fertility? A Within-Family Comparison Using Swedish Register Data
European Journal of Population Abstract This study examines how the sibling constellation in childhood is associated with later fertility behaviour of men and women in Sweden. Administrative register da
Continued Work or Retirement? Preferred Exit-age in Western European countries?
Through multi-level analyses, this study evaluates how welfare regime generosity as well as production regime coordination explains cross-national patterns of retirement preferences across twelve West
Demographic Patterns from the 1960s in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal
This literature review describes the demographic development in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal from the 1960s. The general pattern is delayed transition to adulthood and first birth, decline of fer
Lobbying for profits
If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which of these countrie
Sequences of democracy and development
USAID Center for Democracy and Governance & NORC at the University of Chicago, September 2020. AbstractScholars have long studied the correlation between democracy and development; yet, there is no
A cultural evolution theory for contemporary polarization trends in moral opinions
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Abstract While existing theories of political polarization tend to suggest that the opinions of liberals and conservatives move in opposite directions, avai
Welcome to our research seminars
On Friday the 24th of January our seminar series begins again here at the Institute for Futures Studies.The four first seminars all touch our research area segregation. Martin Ljung from the Research

Lily Wahlman
I work with criminology professor Jerzy Sarnecki, in the project "Effects of SIG in Stockholm". The aim of the project is to improve the state of knowledge about social action groups (SIG). SIG is a m