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16 April, 2018

Four decisions that actually matter for climate change

Did you take part in Earth Hour last month? On the 24th of March each year a big part of the earth’s population in the most energy consuming countries turn the lights off for one hour to stress the en

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23 September, 2022

Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States.

Social Science Research 95 Abstract The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , , Mewes, Jan, Giordano, Nicola Guiseppe, Wu, Cary & Rima Wilkes
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09 September, 2020

When Birth Spacing Does and Does Not Matter for Child Survival: An International Comparison using the DHS

Demography journal Abstract A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk of infant mortality in developing countries, but recent work on other perinatal o

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , , Molitoris, J. & Barclay, K.
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15 January, 2025

Vito Peragine: Measuring inequality and welfare when some inequalities matter more than others

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Vito Peragine, Professor of Economics at the University of Bari. His work spans the area of public

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27 February, 2025

When employees matter: How employee resource groups and workforce liberalism jointly spur firms to support Pro-LGBTQ legislation

Journal of Business Research. Vol. 186 Abstract Employees are increasingly vocal about and attentive toward their organizations’ social policies and practices. Scholars have identified two main channels

Type of publication: Journal articles | Selling, Niels , & Frank G.A. de Bakker
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11 September, 2020

What Matters in Metaethics

Analysis 79:2, 341-349 Link to the article

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister
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19 February, 2025

Does educational attainment matter forattitudes toward immigrants in Chile? Assessingthe causality and generalizability of highereducation's so‐called “liberalizing effect” oneconomic and cultural threat

The British Journal of Sociology, vol. 75, issue 5 Abstract Despite a large literature consistently showing a relationship between higher levels of education and lower levels of ethnic prejudice, some pattaining

Type of publication: Journal articles | Velásquez, Paolo
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17 October, 2008

Actions and networks: Sociology that really matters (to me)

2008. Sociologica 1(1) 1-18.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Peter Hedström
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16 April, 2020

Safety requirements vs. crashing ethically: what matters most for policies on autonomous vehicles

AI & Society, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00964-6 Abstract The philosophical–ethical literature and the public debate on autonomous vehicles have been obsessed with ethical issues related to c

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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06 September, 2019

Nora Sánchez Gassen: Who will be able to vote in the future? Exploring how population change influences the electorate in Germany and why it matters

Nora Sánchez Gassen, political scientist and demographer, Nordregio.AbstractThe presentation will analyse how demographic trends such as population aging and international migration have influenced th

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