Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego ABSTRACTRCTs are valuable tools whose use is spreading i

Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

Professor Nancy Cartwright speaking at a workshop at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2016. Find Nancy's presentation here: http://www.iffs.se/en/calendar/evidensbaserad-poli

Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

Professor Nancy Cartwright speaking at a workshop at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2016. Find Nancy's presentation here: http://www.iffs.se/en/calendar/evidensbaserad-poli

Moa Bursell, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University Seminars hosts are Peter Hedström, David Sumpter and Fredrik Liljeros from the Institute for Futures Studies. The seminars are free of charge

Pol Campos-Mercade

I use randomized controlled-trials (RCT), lab experiments, and theory to investigate issues related to education, health, and behavioral economics. I am especially interested in studying how incentive

Completed: Social networks and immigrant integration

Is it possible to improve immigrants' social and economic situation by matching them with native Swedes? This projects seeks the answer to that question.

2011. Journal of Statistics Physics 145:1368-1384. AbstractA random graph model with prescribed degree distribution and degree dependent edge weights is introduced. Each vertex is independently equipped

Using impure altruism to promote pro-environmental behavior

Is it possible to nudge people into more environmentally friendly behaviour using impure altruism as a driver?

This conference is organized by the Institute for futures studies in cooperation with the Network for evidence-based policy, a Swedish network of academics, journalists and civil servants concerned wi

Place: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online  Research seminar with Erik Wengström, Professor of Economics at Lund University and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Hanken School of Economics / Helsinki Gr