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Additively-separable and rank-discounted variable-population social welfare functions: A characterization
Economic Letters, vol. 203 Abstract Economic policy evaluations require social welfare functions for variable-size populations. Two important candidates are critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CL
John Broome: A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change
The usual way of thinking about climate change is that the present generation will have to make large sacrifices in order to reduce emissions. For example, by consuming less goods and services. This is one reason why cutting emissions is so hard. But what if there is a way to get climate change under control where no one needs to sacrifice?
Frank Kalter: The structural integration of the 2nd generation in Germany. New data, same old stories?
Frank Kalter, Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim ABSTRACT Occupational and educational attainment are widely seen as the key to the integration of immigrant

A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change: A conversation between John Broome & Gustaf Arrhenius
Reducing emissions and combatting climate change now will be of huge value for the coming generations. In principle this value could be used to fund the huge green investment loans needed today in ord
Social choice, nondeterminacy and public reasoning
Res Philosophica 98 ABSTRACT This article presents an approach to how to make reasonable social choices when independent criteria (e.g., prioritarianism, religious freedom) fail to fully determine what t
When employees matter: How employee resource groups and workforce liberalism jointly spur firms to support Pro-LGBTQ legislation
Journal of Business Research. Vol. 186 Abstract Employees are increasingly vocal about and attentive toward their organizations’ social policies and practices. Scholars have identified two main channels
The Role of Education for Intergenerational Income Mobility: A comparison of the United States, Great Britain, and Sweden
Social Forces, Volume 96, Issue 1, pp. 121–152, doi.org/10.1093/sf/sox051 Abstract Previous studies have found that intergenerational income persistence is relatively high in the United States and Brita
Gender Differences in Resistance to Schooling: The Role of Dynamic Peer-Influence and Selection Processes
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Volume 46, Issue 12, pp 2421–2445. Abstract Boys engage in notably higher levels of resistance to schooling than girls. While scholars argue that peer processes contrib
The Impact of Human Health Co-benefits on Evalutaions of Global Climate Policy
Nature Communications Abstract The health co-benefits of CO2 mitigation can provide a strong incentive for climate policy through reductions in air pollutant emissions that occur when targeting shared s
Utilizing Social Influence: Empirics and Modeling
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zürich The research seminars are free of charge and take place Fridays at 13.00–14.30 in the Institute, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm.