Interest Groups & Advocacy volume 10, pp.47–67 AbstractThe weak correlation between lobbying and policy outcomes is puzzling. The main argument developed here is that the puzzle is partly caused by

Dr Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol ABSTRACTWhy have the governments of so many nations decided to globalize their economies in the last 30 years? The literature on this question is polarized

European Sociological Review 31: 312-25. Abstract We study the biases that arise in estimates of social inequalities in children’s cognitive ability test scores due to (i) children’s misreporting of soci

Environmental Earth Sciences 74(6), pp. 4827-4837, doi: 10.1007/s12665-01 Abstract Bacterial attenuation in porous media is often higher in columns than in the field. This study investigates whether this

Frontiers in Psychology Abstract The number of books at home is commonly used as a proxy for socioeconomic status in educational studies. While both parents’ and students’ reports of the number of books

This paper studies the composition of the workforce at the plant level in relation to the productivity performance of the plants, with data covering Swedish mining and manufacturing industries 1985-19

Physica Scripta 89 128005 (7pp) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Abstract  Global catastrophic risk is a term that refers to the risk of the occurrence of an event that kills at least millions of people

2011. Journal of Statistics Physics 145:1368-1384. AbstractA random graph model with prescribed degree distribution and degree dependent edge weights is introduced. Each vertex is independently equipped

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, vol. 78 Abstract Sibling similarity in income is a measure of the omnibus effect of family and community background on income. We estimate sibling similar

Socially constructed beliefs about biological gender differences, i.e. gender essentialism, can to a large extent explain the remaining gender segregation and inequality. That’s one of the conclusions