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04 September, 2020

The Impact of Human Health Co-benefits on Evalutaions of Global Climate Policy

Nature Communications  Abstract The health co-benefits of CO2 mitigation can provide a strong incentive for climate policy through reductions in air pollutant emissions that occur when targeting shared s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Spears, Dean , , Scovronick, Noah, Budolfson, Mark, Dennig, Francis, Errickson, Frank, Fleurbaey, Marc, Peng, Wei, Socolow, Robert H. & Fabian Wagner
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04 September, 2020

Parfit and the economists: A contribution to the debate on the optimal population size

Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 102, 23-37 Abstract This paper presents Derek Parfit’s contribution to the debate on the optimal population size, as it has been developed by economists. Parfit’s des

Type of publication: Journal articles | Zuber, Stéphane
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11 September, 2020

Optimal Climate Policy and the Future of World Economic Development

World Bank Economic Review 33, 21-40 Abstract How much should the present generations sacrifice to reduce emissions today, in order to reduce the future harms of climate change? Within climate economics,

Type of publication: Journal articles | Spears, Dean , Budolfson, M., Dennig, F., Scovronick, N., Siebert, A., Fleurbaey, M. & Fabian Wagner
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01 January, 2011

Optimal Opportunities for Ethnic Organisation and Political Integration? Comparing Stockholm with Other European Cities

Laura Morales and Marco Giugni (Eds.) Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe: Making Multicultural Democracy Work Pp. 115-139. Palgrave Macmillan. Abstract The overall question in

Type of publication: Chapters | Per Strömblad, Gunnar Myrberg, Bo Bengtsson
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11 December, 2019

Democracy and the Common Good: A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule

Doctoral thesis in practical philosophy, Stockholm: Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University. Abstract In this study I analyse the performance of a democratic decision-making rule: the weighted ma

Type of publication: Journal articles | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina
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10 May, 2004

Welfare Enhancing Marginal Tax Rates: The Case of Publicly Provided Day Care

This paper highlights the role of tax funding of day care for children and demonstrates that the optimal income tax should face all agents with the cost of the needed day care in order to earn further

Type of publication: Working papers | Sören Blomquist and Vidar Christiansen
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01 January, 2010

Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks

2010. Nature Physics 6:888-893. AbstractNetworks portray a multitude of interactions through which people meet, ideas are spread, and infectious diseases propagate within a society. Identifying the most

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04 May, 2021

Studies on climate ethics and future generations vol. 3

Working paper series 2021:1-10 Joe Roussos & Paul Bowman (eds) This volume comprises the third collection of working papers by researchers within the program Climate ethics and future generations.Th

Type of publication: Working papers | Roussos, Joe , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Spears, Dean , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Stefánsson, H. Orri , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Steele, Katie , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Broome, John , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Campbell, Tim , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Greaves, Hilary , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Roberts, Melinda A. , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson Herlitz, Anders , , Cusbert, John & Nicholas Lawson
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18 March, 2019

Completed: Population Growth and the Sustainable Development Goals

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), several obstacles must be overcome. This planning project investigates an obstacle that is often neglected: population growth.

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04 February, 2013

NEW SEMINAR: Social Networks, Employee Selection and Labor Market Outcomes: Toward an Empirical Analysis

Oskar Nordström Skans och Lena Hensvik, Institutet för arbetsmarknads- och utbildningspolitisk utvärdering The Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals suggests that it is optimal for firms to sel

Oskar Nordström Skans och Lena Hensvik, Institutet för arbetsmarknads- och utbildningspolitisk utvärdering
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