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

Interview with Thomas Schelling

On the 7th of June, 2013 professor and Nobel Prize Winner Thomas Schelling came to visit Stockholm, Sweden and the Institute for Futures Studies in order inaugurate an international research conferenc

A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 3

www.iffs.se Thomas Schelling, an American economist and professor of foreign affairs who in 2005 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of game-theory, is interv

A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 2

www.iffs.se Thomas Schelling, an American economist and professor of foreign affairs who in 2005 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of game-theory, is interv

A conversation with Thomas Schelling part 1

www.iffs.se Thomas Schelling, an American economist and professor of foreign affairs who in 2005 was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analyses of game-theory, is interv

In 2013 the Institute for Futures Studies arranged the 6th annual INAS-Conference in Stockholm. The conference was opened by Thomas Schelling, being interviewed by Richard Swedberg.

On the 7th and 8th of June, the International Network for Analytical Sociologists, INAS, will meet for its sixth conference, this time in Stockholm hosted by the Institute for Futures Studies. Thomas

This paper will relate the worsened situation for low educated in general, and youth in particular, to two institutional factors: a changed organisation of vocational education in upper secondary scho

in: Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality: An International Comparison, Reds.: H-P. Blossfeld, S. Buchholz, J. Skopek och M. Triventi, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, s.165-180. From an interna

This paper investigates skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002. It shows that over- and undereducation contribute far more t