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Myths and truths about "the experiment"
The Swedish response to Covid-19 put in context.
The lure of power. Career paths and considerations among policy professionals in Sweden
Working paper 2019 nr 12. This paper analyses career paths and career considerations among policy professionals in Sweden. It builds on a longitudinal data set in which the professionals’ careers are m
Mats Ingelström
CFO and Head of Research CoordinationTel: +46 8 402 12 00 (vx)E-mail: [email protected] In my role as the Manager of Research Coordination, I lead our team of research coordinators. Research at
Wage Differences Between Women and Men in Sweden – the Impact of Skill Mismatch
This paper investigates skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002. It shows that over- and undereducation contribute far more t
David Sumpter: Reasons why we should NOT worry about fake news, echo chambers, filter bubbles and Cambridge Analytica
David Sumpter, Professor of Applied Maths at Uppsala University Abstract Much of the recent media reporting about social media has revolved around the potential dangers. Terms such as fake news, filter
Children’s Work in Everyday Life
Institutet för Framtidsstudiers skriftserie: Framtidens samhälle nr 6 Children’s work has been an important political issue throughout the 20th century, but today it is mostly when discussed with a foc
Research seminar with Claes Lernestedt: Frankenstein's Heirs
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Claes Lernestedt, Professor of Law, Stockholm University.Register hereAbstract This resear, has (at least formally) yet to start. The project might be thought of as interdisciplinary, with a base in law (I’m a criminal law professor), Thoughts presented will be very tentative, and I welcome any kind of input.
The Relation Between Gender Egalitarian Values and Gender Differences in Academic Achievement
Frontiers in Psychology, 11:236 Abstract Gender differences in achievement exhibit variation between domains and between countries. Much prior research has examined whether this variation could be due t
Pathlength scaling in graphs with incomplete navigational information
2011. Physica A 390:3996-4001. The graph-navigability problem concerns how one can find as short paths as possible between a pair of vertices, given an incomplete picture of a graph. We study the navigab
Democratic revolutions as institutional innovation diffusion: Rapid adoption and survival of democracy
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 80, Issue 8, October 2013, Pp. 1546–1556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.002 Abstract Recent ‘democratic revolutions’ in Islamic countries