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27 February, 2025

What calibrating variable-value population ethics suggests

Economics & Philosophy Abstract Variable-Value axiologies avoid Parfit’s Repugnant Conclusion while satisfying some weak instances of the Mere Addition principle. We apply calibration methods to two

Type of publication: Journal articles | Spears, Dean , Stefánsson, H. Orri
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13 September, 2024

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Spears, Dean , Stefánsson, H. Orri
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10 March, 2016

How Valuable are Chances?

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 82, No. 4, p. 602-625. DOI: 10.1086/682915 Abstract Chance Neutrality is the thesis that, conditional on some proposition being true (or being false), its chance of being true

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri , , Richard Bradley
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29 May, 2018

Investigating sequences in ordinal data: A new approach with adapted evolutionary models.

Political Science Research and Methods, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 449-466. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 Abstract This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. I

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Fredrik Jansson, Yi-ting Wang and Staffan I. Lindberg.
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11 September, 2020

Speed and Concentration of the Covering Time for Structured Coupon Collectors

Journal of Applied Probability Abstract Let V be an n-set, and let X be a random variable taking values in the power-set of V. Suppose we are given a sequence of random coupons , where the are independe

Type of publication: Journal articles | Markström, Klas , , Falgas-Ravry, Victor & Larsson, Joel
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10 September, 2020

Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data

Social Science Quarterly, 838-856 Abstract Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outc

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Krusell, Joshua & Lindberg, Staffan I.
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26 June, 2018

Social dominance orientation and climate change denial: The role of dominance and system justification

Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 86, pp. 108-111.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.05.041 Abstract Extending previous research, we examined whether the relation between social dominance orientat

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jylhä, Kirsti , & Nazar Akrami
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19 February, 2020

Ideology and climate change denial

Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 70, Pages 62-65.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.06.030 Abstract Examining the relation between ideological variables and climate change denial, we found social

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jylhä, Kirsti , & Nazar Akrami
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04 September, 2020

What to lobby on? Explaining Why Large American Firms Lobby on the Same or Different Issues

Business and Politics Abstract What determines whether or not firms lobby on the same policy issues? Scholars offer two broad answers to this question. Firms that are (1) similar or (2) connected throug

Type of publication: Journal articles | Selling, Niels
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18 October, 2022

Culture and tax avoidance: the case of Italy

Critical Policy Studies, volume 15 Abstract Culture is increasingly used as an explanatory variable for tax evasion. So far, we know, however, little about the mechanisms that link culture and tax behav

Type of publication: Journal articles | Hien, Josef
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