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19 March, 2021

The Constant Gap: Parenthood Premiums in Sweden 1968–2010

in: Social ForcesAbstractWe know that parenthood has different consequences for men’s and women’s careers. Still, the research remains inconclusive on the question of whether this is mainly a conseque

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus , & Charlotta Magnusson
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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

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15 June, 2012

Family Formation and Men’s and Women’s Attainment of Workplace Authority

2012. Social Forces, 90:795-816. Abstract Using Swedish panel data, we assess whether the gender gap in supervisory authority has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent the g

Type of publication: Journal articles | M. Bygren, M. Gähler
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11 July, 2019

The choice of new private and benefit cars vs. climate and transportation policy in Sweden

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 69, pp. 276-292, doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2019.02.008 Abstract Dedicated to show climate leadership, Sweden has committed to cut 70% of greenhouse-gas

Type of publication: Journal articles | Engström, Emma , , Staffan Algers & Muriel Beser Hugosson
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22 January, 2021

Persson's merely possible persons

in: Utilitas 32 (4): 1-9 (2020) Abstract:All else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the world worse, and creating an ecstatic person makes it better. Such claims are easily justified if it

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister , & Tim Campbell
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19 August, 2022

Persson’s Merely Possible Persons

Bykvist, K., & Campbell, T. (2020). Persson's Merely Possible Persons. Utilitas,32(4), 479-487. doi:10.1017/S0953820820000199 AbstractAll else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the worl

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister , Campbell, Tim
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20 September, 2021

The EU project Open Days: The AMIF Project "The Subjective Integration 2"

The purpose of this project is to give the  migrants arriving via the organised channels, i.e. quota refugees and family reunion cases information about Sweden before leaving for Sweden. They are inte

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15 January, 2025

Eva Erman: Why feasibility need not and should not be a moralized notion

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Eva Erman, Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on democrat

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12 June, 2025
Eva Erman:  Why Feasibility Need Not and Should Not be a Moralized Notion

Eva Erman: Why Feasibility Need Not and Should Not be a Moralized Notion

Research seminar with Eva Erman, Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on democratic theory, specifically on questions of democracy beyond the state, in a global

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10 November, 2022

The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics - Interview with the editors

If we can affect how many people will be born in the future, what does that mean for our decisions today? Would it be bad if much fewer people would exist in the future, as an adaption to climate chan

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