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21 June, 2023

Climate-friendly food-choice intentions among emerging adults: extending the theory of planned behavior with objective ambivalence, climate-change worry and optimism

Frontiers of Psychology, Sec. Environmental Psychology, vol. 14. Abstract Climate-friendly food choices are still relatively rarely addressed in studies investigating climate engagement, particularly am

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jylhä, Kirsti , , Ojala, M., Odisho, S. & A. Riise
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17 June, 2011

Is Early Retirement Encourage by the Employer? Labor-Demand Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees

The objective of this paper is to examine how employers’ non-wage costs for their workforce affect voluntary early retirement, using the case of the Swedish private sector. The results show that a 1 p

Type of publication: Working papers | Daniel Hallberg
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01 September, 2005

Family Relations, Children and Interregional Mobility, 1970-2000

The objective of this paper is to examine how family unions or, more precisely, the arrival of children has influenced migration during the three last decades. Both family formation and family dissolu

Type of publication: Working papers | Ann-Christin Jans
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11 September, 2020

Paul's Reconfiguration of Decision-problems in the Light of Transformative Experiences

Rivista Internazionale di Filosfia e Psicologia Abstract This paper focuses on cases of epistemically transformative experiences, as Paul calls them, cases where we have radically different experiences t

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister
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16 September, 2024

Managing values in climate science

Plos Climate Abstract Climate science has been deeply affected by social and political values in the last fifty years [1]. If we focus on climate denial and obfuscation, we might see the influence of va

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe
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07 March, 2014

The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?

Michael Osborne, Exeter College, Oxford. We examine how susceptible jobs are to computerisation. To assess this, we begin by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability of computerisat

Michael Osborne, Exeter College, Oxford.
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24 November, 2023

Mike Otsuka: Determinism and the value and fairness of lotteries

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, and online Note that the speaker will join us online. Research seminar with Mike Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers Universit

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15 January, 2014

From grasshoppers to human group behavior – interview with David Sumpter

On January 12th, Dagens Nyheter published an interview with David Sumpter, professor of applied mathematics. David , who is currently working at both Uppsala University and the Institute for Futures St

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01 September, 2017

What is risk aversion?

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx035 Abstract According to the orthodox treatment of risk preferences in decision theory, they are to be explained in terms of th

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri , & Richard Bradley
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16 April, 2019

Weak support for a U-shaped pattern between societal gender equality and fertility when comparing societies across time

Demographic Research, Volume 40 - Article 2, p. 27–48. Abstract Background:A number of recent theories in demography suggest a U-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility. Fertility is t

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin
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