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01 June, 2012

Exploiting Temporal Network Structures of Human Interaction to Effectively Immunize Populations

2012. PLoS ONE 7, e36439. AbstractDecreasing the number of people who must be vaccinated to immunize a community against an infectious disease could both save resources and decrease outbreak sizes. A k

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26 October, 2022

Just allocation of Covid-19 vaccines

BMJ Global Health 6: e004812. 2021 ABSTRACT Authorized COVID-19 vaccines must be distributed fairly. Several proposals have emerged offering guidelines for how to do this. However, insofar as the aim is A total of 182 countries have joined the facility so far, which has secured about US$2 billion for its advance market commitment (AMC). The AMC will allow 92 low-income and middle-income countries to obtain vaccine doses as they are approved or authorised. Currently, COVAX is set up so that in a first phase poor countries can vaccinate 3% of their populations, while rich countries can vaccinate up to 50%. Though the facility hopes to allow all members to vaccinate at least 20% of their populations by the end of 2021.Other proposals by theprioritising healthcare workers, the elderly and, those with comorbidities that put them at greater risk of severe illness if infected with COVID-19, people from certain high-risk sociodemographic groups and some teachers.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders , ,Lederman, Zohar, Miller, Jennifer, Fleurbaey, Marc, Venkatapuram, Sridhar, Atuire, Ceasar, Eckenwiler, Lisa & Nicole Hassoun
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28 April, 2025

Deep moral disagreements and defective contexts

Synthese Abstract The key characteristic of deep disagreements is that any attempt to resolve them just reveals new points of disagreement that stem from underlying commitments. Many moral disagreementsInformal LogicSemantics and Pragmatics

Type of publication: Journal articles | Björkholm, Stina
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11 January, 2024

Vaccine-hesitant people misperceive the social norm of vaccination

PNAS Nexus, 2023, 2, 1–11 Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is one of the main threats to global health, as became clear once more during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccination campaigns could benefit from appeals

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andrighetto, Giulia , Vriens, E. & L. Tummolini
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19 March, 2021

Vaccine confidence is higher in more religious countries

Human vaccines and immunotherapeutics Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to global health, but it is not ubiquitous; depending on the country, the proportion that have confidence in vaccines ranges

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Vartanova, Irina
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08 September, 2023
Pol Campos-Mercade

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

Assistant Professor, Economics
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14 June, 2023

A research agenda for the study of social norm change

Philosophical transactions A. Royal Society Publishing Abstract Social norms have been investigated across many disciplines for many years, but until recently, studies mainly provided indirect, implicitresearch may move beyond unequivocal praising of social norms as the missing link between selfinterestedbehaviour and observed cooperation or as the explanation for (the lack of) social tipping. It provides the toolkit to understand explicitly where, when and how social norms can be a solution to solve large-scale problems, but also to recognize their limits. This article is part of the theme issue ’Emergent phenomena in complex physical and socio-technical systems: from cells to societies’. 

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andrighetto, Giulia , & Eva Vriens
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14 April, 2021

Completed: Covid-19 effects on social norms and collaboration

Covid-19 has resulted in restrictions, school closures and quarantine, but how has the pandemic changed our social patterns and norms?

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05 September, 2022

Research seminar: Erik Wengström - Intended and unintended consequences of financial incentives

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

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14 March, 2023
Erik Wengström: Intended and unintended consequences of financial incentives

Erik Wengström: Intended and unintended consequences of financial incentives

Erik Wengström, Professor of Economics at Lund University and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Hanken School of Economics / Helsinki Graduate School of Economics. His research focuses primarily on how pe

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