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19 January, 2007

Child Health and Family Income: Physical and Psychosocial Health

This paper provides a detailed investigation of the family income/child health relationship focusing on physical and psychosocial health, parent’s socioeconomic background, and liquidity constraint pr

Type of publication: Working papers | Ruth-Aïda Nahum
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23 September, 2024

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , Barclay, K. & Ö. Kravdal
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01 January, 2011

Pathlength scaling in graphs with incomplete navigational information

2011. Physica A 390:3996-4001. The graph-navigability problem concerns how one can find as short paths as possible between a pair of vertices, given an incomplete picture of a graph. We study the navigab

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10 March, 2016

Of Malthus and Methuselah: does longevity treatment aggravate global catastrophic risks?

Physica Scripta 89 128005 (7pp) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Abstract  Global catastrophic risk is a term that refers to the risk of the occurrence of an event that kills at least millions of people

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim
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25 January, 2022

The value of values in climate science

Nature Climate Change To date, values are not widely acknowledged or discussed within physical climate science. Yet, effective management of values in physical climate science is required for the benef

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe , Pulkkinen, K., S. Undorf, F. Bender, P. Wikman-Svahn, F. Doblas-Reyes, C. Flynn, G. Hegerl, A. Jönsson, G-K. Leung, T. Shepherd, E. Thompson
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06 July, 2023

A Call for Rethinking Climate Science Methods

Climate science faces a challenge in delivering direct and immediate societal benefits. Today, there is a gap between what it produces and what users actually need. In the article "Usability of climat

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15 May, 2013

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010).  This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
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11 January, 2016
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Klas Markström

I am Associate Professor in Mathematics at Umeå University. My main area of research is graph theory and combinatorics. Here I study both deterministic structural problems and problems regarding the pr

Associate Professor, Mathematics
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05 May, 2023

Usability of climate information: Toward a new scientific framework

WIREs Climate Change Abstract Climate science is expected to provide usable information to policy-makers, to support the resolution of climate change. The complex, multiply connected nature of climate c

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe , & Julie Jebeile
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15 June, 2012

Socioeconomic Persistence Across Generations: Cognitive and Noncognitive Processes

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

Type of publication: Chapters | Mood, Carina , , Erik Bihagen Jonsson, Jan O. , , Erik Bihagen
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