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19 October, 2017

Do Employers Prefer Fathers? Evidence from a Field Experiment Testing the Gender by Parenthood Interaction Effect on Callbacks to Job Applications

European Sociological Review, 2017, Vol. 33, No. 3, 337–348 In research on fatherhood premiums and motherhood penalties in career-related outcomes, employers’ discriminatory behaviours are often argued

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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26 April, 2022

Mollie Gerver: Refugee Resettlement and Adaptive Preferences

Plats: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Register here Abstract Aid organizations are increasingly lobbying wealthy countries to send aid to refugees in neighboring poorer count

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28 September, 2022

Money-Pump Arguments

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy, red. Martin Peterson. Cambridge University Press Abstract Suppose that you prefer A to B, B to C, and C to A. Your preferences violate Expected Utility Theory

Type of publication: Books | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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06 February, 2018

Asymmetries in punishment propensity may drive the civilizing process

Nature Human Behaviour, volume 2, pp. 148–155, doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0278-z Abstract Norms about hygiene and violence have both shown a tendency to become increasingly strict, in the sense that the han

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , , Mícheál de Barra Eriksson, Kimmo , , Mícheál de Barra
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06 April, 2016

"Most MPs are not all that sharp." Political employees and representative democracy

Working Paper 2016 no. 2(Published in International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 40 (7), pp 548-558  (2017) DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1157693) This paper analyses the orient

Type of publication: Working papers | Svallfors, Stefan
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16 September, 2024

Limited and Mixed Evidence for System-Sanctioned Change to Protect the Environment: A Replication Study

International review of social psychology, vol 37:1 Abstract Feygina and colleagues (2010, Study 3) reported that people who prefer the status quo can be encouraged towards pro-environmental responses w

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jylhä, Kirsti , Kim, I., Stanley, S.K. & N. Badullovich
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14 November, 2017

Researcher wanted for a study of Swedish voters

The Institute for Futures Studies is searching for a researcher for a research project on psychological and sociological differences between voters, depending on what party they would prefer to give t

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05 December, 2022

New study: This is why Italians are so unwilling to pay taxes

In Western Europe, Italy is at the top when it comes to tax evasion. In 2013, an estimated 27 percent of the entire tax revenue in Italy was evaded. What are the reasons for this? Political scientist ".

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30 May, 2018

Diversity preferences among employees and ethnoracial workplace segregation

Social Science Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.03.009 Abstract Ethno-racial workplace segregation increases already existing ethno-racial inequality. While previous research has identified d

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , , Fredrik Jansson
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17 February, 2015

Moa Bursell & Fredrik Jansson: Ethnic Homophily and Social Influence in Workplace Preferences

Moa Bursellis a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the Institute for Futures Studies and a member of the Stockholm University Linnaeus Centre for Integration Studies (SULCIS). Fredrik Jansson has

Moa Bursell is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the Institute for Futures Studies and a member of the Stockholm University Linnaeus Centre for Integration Studies (SULCIS).
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