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Vegard Skirbekk: Understanding the global transition to low fertility
Globally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago. Why have birth rates fallen, and how will low fertility affect our shared future? The vast majority of current resear
Research seminar with Vegard Skirbekk: Understanding the global transition to low fertility
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holändargatan 13 i Stockholm Research seminar with Vegard Skirbekk, professor at Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University and senior researcher at the Norwegian I
Fading family lines- women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th and 21st Century Northern Sweden
Advances in Life Course Research, vol. 53 Abstract We studied to what extent family lines die out over the course of 122 years based on Swedish population-level data. Our data included demographic and s
Completed: The effects of psychological structures on values and voting behavior
A study of the differences between the voters of the Sweden Democrats, the Social Democrats and the Moderate Party.
Stability of College Rankings. A Study of Relative Earnings Estimates Applying Different Methods and Models on Swedish Data
This study investigates how stabile the ranking system of Swedish universities is in relation to future incomes of their alumni. Amongst the findings, the ranking of colleges varies both across method
Completed: Implementation of self-driving cars. Overview of challenges and opportunities regarding social and ethical aspects
The project aims to provide an overall analysis of the challenges and opportunities that the implementation of self-driving cars will bring, as well as a more detailed analysis of any of these problems.
Rainer Forst: Towards a Critical Theory of Trust
Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Research seminar with Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Department of Political Science and Department of Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang
Gunn Birkelund: Gender discrimination in hiring
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, PhD in Sociology is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo (since 1999). Her main publications cover labour marke
On the ratio challenge for Comparativism
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, p. 1-11. Abstract This paper discusses a challenge for comparativists about belief, who hold that numerical degree of belief (in particular, subjective probability) i
Emma Engström
I defended my PhD thesis on predictive modeling of groundwater contamination at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED), KTH, Royal Institute of Technol
