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11 June, 2008

Demography and housing demand – What can we learn from residential construction data?

2008. Journal of Population Economics 21(3), 521-539. Abstract There are obvious reasons why residential construction should depend on the population’s age structure. We estimate this relation on Swedis

Type of publication: Journal articles | Thomas Lindh, Bo Malmberg
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17 August, 2008

Demography and housing demand–What can we learn from residential construction data?

2008. Journal of Population Economics 21(3), 521-539. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-006-0064-0

Type of publication: Journal articles | Thomas Lindh, Bo Malmberg
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17 June, 2019

Generosity pays: Selfish people have fewer children and earn less money

Journal of personality and social psychology. Abstract Does selfishness pay in the long term? Previous research has indicated that being prosocial (or otherish) rather than selfish has positive conseque

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , & Simpson, B. Vartanova, Irina , & Simpson, B. Eriksson, Kimmo , & Simpson, B.
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11 September, 2020

Learning the Natural Numbers as a Child

Noûs 53 (1), 3-22 Abstract How do we get out knowledge of the natural numbers? Various philosophical accounts exist, but there has been comparatively little attention to psychological data on how the lea

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11 January, 2016

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04 April, 2024

Cultural traits operating in senders are driving forces of cultural evolution

Proceedings of the royal society Biological Sciences Abstract Cultural evolution typically studies how ideas and behaviours spread and change depending on how we learn and from whom. A new model suggest

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jansson, Fredrik , Enquist, Magnus; Ghirlanda, Stefano & Jérôme Michaud
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26 September, 2022

Beyond Uncertainty. Reasoning with Unknown Possibilities

Cambridge University Press The main aim of this Element is to introduce the topic of limited awareness, and changes in awareness, to those interested in the philosophy of decision-making and uncertain

Type of publication: Books | Stefánsson, H. Orri , Steele, Katie
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30 June, 2022

The fast and furtive spread of AI by infusion into technologies that we already in use – a critical assessment

I Hanemaayer, A. (editor), Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents. Palgrave. Abstract (book) On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, and implementatio

Type of publication: Chapters | Engström, Emma
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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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07 March, 2014

Learning by Imitation in Games: Theory, Field and Lab

Erik Mohlin, Oxford University We exploit a unique opportunity to study how a large population of players in the field learn to play a novel game which has a complicated and non-intuitive mixed strateg

Erik Mohlin, Oxford University
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