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Becoming a business student: Negotiating identity and social contacts during the first three months of an elite business education
Institute for Futures Studies, working paper 2022:13, 23 pages. We know that informal networks explain differences in career success. Historical differences in business careers of men and women have fr
Graffiti: A precursor to future deviant behaviour during adolescence?
Deviant Behavior Volume 36, Issue 7, pages 565-580. DOI:10.1080/01639625.2014.951569 Abstract This study examines if graffiti initiation leads to greater deviant behavior. Swedish students (N = 1,010) co
The Long-Term Cognitive and Socioeconomic Consequences of Birth Intervals: A Within-Family Sibling Comparison Using Swedish Register Data
Demography, 54(2): 459-484, doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0550-x Abstract We examine the relationship between birth-to-birth intervals and a variety of mid- and long-term cognitive and socioeconomic outcom
Policy brief: 300 000 from Ukraine wants to come to Sweden
According to a new Policy Brief by Swedish Delmi, a third of all Ukrainians - 12 million - wanted to move permanently to another country when asked by Gallup World Poll in summer 2021. 300 000 of them
Anna Tyllström: The social life of elite students: early socialization tactics in top business education
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Anna Tyllström, Associate Professor at Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University and IFFS affiliated
#YouToo? When the predator is your partner
The #MeToo movement has recently been praised by the United Nations experts in women’s human rights. Yet if sexist violence against women has been under the spotlight and denounced in every context ov
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
The coronavirus, mortality and life expectancy
A demographer calculates how the average life expectancy can be affected In Sweden, we now experience the first pandemic that occurs in a society with modern information technology, and it is also the
Learning to play
In 2007, the Swedish gambling agency ran a simple gambling game called LIMBO. Gamblers were invited to stake 10 kronor on a number of their choice between 1 and 99,999. The person choosing the smalles
Birth Spacing and Parents’ Physical and Mental Health: An Analysis Using Individual and Sibling Fixed Effects
Demography 61(2): 393–418 Abstract An extensive literature has examined the relationship between birth spacing and subsequent health outcomes for parents, particularly for mothers. However, this researc