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Markus Jäntti: Trends in absolute intergenerational income mobility in Sweden

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This study examines labor supply responses to spousal sickness absence (SSA) using a Swedish longitudinal panel data, from 1996-2002. The overall results show evidence of a decrease in labor supply in

H. Orri Stefánsson

I am Professor of Practical Philosophy and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Stockholm University, and Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My current research mostly concerns how one should cho uncertainty, including situations where one suspects that the outcome of one’s actions (or inaction) could be catastrophic.

Petra Kosonen

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in philosophy at Stockholm University. My research is mostly on ethics and decision theory, and the project I'm currently part of focuses on catastrophic risks. Before coming

Wendy Nelson Espeland, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University. Abstract Media rankings of universities are a relatively recent development. I will discuss the mostly unintentional effects of ra

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

I am professor in political theory and director of the Centre for the experimental-philosophical study of discrimination (CEPDISC) at University of Aarhus, Denmark. In recent years, I have worked mostly

Socio-Economic Review Abstract Ordoliberalism has been accused of being the ideational blueprint for Germany’s fiscal stance during the Eurozone-crisis. While the literature that debates the influence o

Kapitel 3. http://www.russellsage.org/publications/parents-to-children Abstract This chapter analyses the role of cognitive ability, personality traits, and physical characteristics in transmission of so

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (3) 2 http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/2.html Abstract Ethnocentrism refers to the tendency to behave differently towards strangers based only on