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Welfare Enhancing Marginal Tax Rates: The Case of Publicly Provided Day Care
This paper highlights the role of tax funding of day care for children and demonstrates that the optimal income tax should face all agents with the cost of the needed day care in order to earn further
David Ellerman: Reframing the Labor Question
On Marginal Productivity Theory and the Labor Theory of Property. David Ellerman, Visiting scholar at the University of California in Riverside ABSTRACT Neoclassical economics uses the perfectly competit
Family Formation and Men’s and Women’s Attainment of Workplace Authority
2012. Social Forces, 90:795-816. Abstract Using Swedish panel data, we assess whether the gender gap in supervisory authority has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent the g

Sweden Democrat voters. Who are they, where do they come from, and where are they headed?
Forskningsrapport 2019:1, 108 s. Europe has experienced major political changes over recent decades, with new political parties having emerged and become established in many countries. The same develop
Research seminar with Oskar Nordström Skans: The Heterogeneous Earnings Impact of Job Loss Across Workers, Establishments, and Markets
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, and online Research seminar with Oskar Nordström Skans, Professor of Economics, Uppsala University. REGISTERAbstractUsing g
Lena Wängnerud: Why Women’s Political Representation affect Levels of Corruption. Trends in Bribery and Public Service Delivery Across European Regions
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Lena Wängnerud, Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Her work involves t
The triumph of secular individualism – A new mathematical model offers clear-cut answers to how morals will change over time
Irina Vartanova, Kimmo Eriksson and Pontus Strimling at the Institute for Futures Studies have created a model to predict changes in moral opinion. –Ourmodel did considerably better than all known methPontus Strimling.
Children of austerity
Nearly ten years after the first financial chock Waves rippled through the world economy, generating a global recenssion, the track record of high income countries in protecting Children from its worsoch .
Political Philosophy Mini-Workshop
This is an open event with pre-circulated papers, including a presentation of the first paper but not the second. See abstracts below. Schedule 13.15 Coffee 13.30 “Legitimate Authority and Social OntologAuthor: Laura Valentini, LSECommentator: Aaron Maltais, Stockholm University
Charles Manski: Seminar with a skeptic
Charles F. Manski On the 21st and 22nd of January this year Charles F Manski was in Stockholm, invited by the Institute for Futures studies to hold three lectures on his newly published book Public Poli.