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Completed: Predictions of changes in opinion on moral issues – a cross-cultural test on a new theory
Today, moral questions tend to become more important to voters in many countries. Is it possible to understand - and predict - how the public opinion changes on moral issues?
Values and voters – on giving your vote to the Sweden Democrats
On the 4th of December, an article was published on DN Debatt on xenophobia among the Sweden Democrats voters. The article refers to a study that was initiated when the writers Peter Hedström and Tim
The need for nuance in the null hypothesis significance testing debate
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 77 (2017), 4, p. 616-630. Abstract Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) provides an important statistical toolbox, but there are a number of ways i
Rural Population Growth in Sweden in the 1990s: Unexpected Reality or Spatial-Statistical Chimera
This article addresses the matter of “urban spillover” in rural population development, i.e. how urban localities tend to push a ring of diffuse urban growth outwards as they expand in area. The data
Estimating Social and Ethnic Inequality in School Surveys: Biases from Child Misreporting and Parent Nonresponse
European Sociological Review 31: 312-25. Abstract We study the biases that arise in estimates of social inequalities in children’s cognitive ability test scores due to (i) children’s misreporting of soci
Final conference of the Franco-Swedish Program for Philosophy and Economics
The Franco-Swedish Program for Philosophy and Economics will arrange a final conference in Uppsala where a group of prominent philosophers and economists will meet to discuss issues at the border betw
Rodney Edvinsson: An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption
Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.
Science Denial. A Narrative Review and Recommendations for Future Research and Practice
European Psychologist Abstract Science denial has adverse consequences at individual and societal levels and even for the future of our planet. The present article aimed to answer the question: What lea
Egalitarian Concerns and Population Change
in Ole Frithjof Norheim (ed.) Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities, Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931392.003.0007 We usually examine our considered
The value of life and the challenge to value aggregation
in: The Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustice, Activism (ed. V. Beck, H. Hahn & R. Lepenies), New York: Springer. 2020. AbstractMultidimensional poverty measures require implicit,
