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Birth Spacing and Parents’ Physical and Mental Health: An Analysis Using Individual and Sibling Fixed Effects
Demography 61(2): 393–418 Abstract An extensive literature has examined the relationship between birth spacing and subsequent health outcomes for parents, particularly for mothers. However, this researc
Life-style and self-rated global health in Sweden: A prospective analysis spanning three decades
Preventive Medicine ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743513003472 Abstract The article studies the relation between lifestyle and global self-rated health in the adult
When Birth Spacing Does and Does Not Matter for Child Survival: An International Comparison using the DHS
Demography journal Abstract A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk of infant mortality in developing countries, but recent work on other perinatal o
Birth Intervals and Health in Adulthood: A Comparison of Siblings Using Swedish Register Data
Demography, Volume 55, Issue 3, pp 929–955. Abstract A growing body of research has examined whether birth intervals influence perinatal outcomes and child health as well as long-term educational and s
Completed: Written meaning
The purpose of the project is to stimulate and discuss knowledge-based text production alongside the dominant academic formats, to contribute to more animated writing and readable texts by scholars, and thereby enlarge their audience.
Does education indoctrinate?
International Journal of Educational Development Abstract Do states manage to build education systems that produce students with political values they uphold? We test the indoctrination hypothesis using
Government quality, egalitarianism, and attitudes to taxes and social spending: a European comparison
European Political Science Review, Vol 5 (2013), pp 363-80. First published online July 16, 2012, doi:10.1017/S175577391200015X. The paper analyses how perceptions of government quality – in terms of i
Pathlength scaling in graphs with incomplete navigational information
2011. Physica A 390:3996-4001. The graph-navigability problem concerns how one can find as short paths as possible between a pair of vertices, given an incomplete picture of a graph. We study the navigab
Poverty trends during two recessions and two recoveries: Lessons from Sweden 1991—2013
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5:3. DOI 10.1186/s40174-016-0051-8. Abstract We study cross-sectional and long-term poverty in Sweden over a period spanning two recessions, and discuss changes in th
Rodney Edvinsson: An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption
Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.