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Money, peers and parents: Social and economic aspects of inequality in youth wellbeing.
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(7), 1294-1308. Abstract Indicators of social and economic status are important health determinants. However, evidence for the influence of family socioeconomic statu
Jonas Vlachos: Trust-Based Evaluation in a Market-Oriented School System
Jonas Vlachos, Professor, Department of Economics, Stockholm UniversityABSTRACTIn Sweden, a trust-based system of school performance evaluation meets a market oriented school system with liberal entry
Backcasting the Future of Food: A Technology-Oriented Path to Sustainable Production in 2100
Institute for Futures Studies Working Paper 2024:18 Abstract We stipulate a normatively desirable scenario for food production in 2100 and identify a technology-centered path to attain it. The target ou
Religious development from adolescence to early adulthood among Muslim and Christian youth in Germany: A person-oriented approach, Child Development
Child Development Abstract Religious decline, often observed among North American Christian youth, may not apply universally. We examined this and whether religiosity is associated with well-being, risk
How Much Do People Value Future Generations?
Malcolm Fairbrother is professor of sociology at Umeå University and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. In this seminar he presents the paper "How Much Do People Value Future Generations?
Disease prioritarianism: A Flawed Principle
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, May 2015. DOI 10.1007/s11019-015-9649-2 Disease prioritarianism is a principle that is often implicitly or explicitly employed in the realm of healthcare prioritiz
Modes of Re-Territorialisation: Spatial Implications of Regional Competition Politics in Sweden
In Sweden, efforts to develop knowledge based niches have become key elements in an increasingly growth oriented regional/industrial policy. This paper addresses the spatial implications of these chan
Too much or too little? A short-term longitudinal study of youth's own economic resources and risk behaviour.
Journal of Adolescence, Vol 66, pp. 21-30, doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.04.005. Abstract This study examined socioeconomic differences in risk behaviours according to youth-oriented measures of eco
Governing for Future Generations: How Political Trust Shapes Attitudes Towards Climate and Debt Policies
in: Frontiers in political science AbstractPolicy decisions, and public preferences about them, often entail judgements about costs people should be willing to pay for the benefit of future generations
Christofer Edling
I am Professor of Sociology at Lund University, and I have held positions at Jacobs University Bremen, Stockholm University, and Uppsala University where I was SCAS Pro Futura Fellow for four years. M and
