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21 November, 2023
Finding popular solutions to climate change

Finding popular solutions to climate change

A global investigation of public opinions about climate policies and their determinants.

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30 January, 2014
Labour market policies against the odds? Job finding among participants in ESF projects in comparison with the Public Employment Service

Labour market policies against the odds? Job finding among participants in ESF projects in comparison with the Public Employment Service

Research report 2014/1, 115 p. The European Social Fund (ESF) has complemented the Swedish Employment Service’s work assisting job seekers in finding new jobs, by financing projects specifically design

Type of publication: IFFS reports | Ryszard Szulkin, Lena Nekby, Magnus Bygren, Clara Lindblom, Kenisha Russell-Jonsson, Ragnar Bengtsson, Erik Normark
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03 February, 2017

Funding

The institute is primarily funded through a grant from the state budget and external research funding from government and private research financiers, awarded in competition with other research organi

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16 November, 2016

Mikael Holmqvist: Djursholm – Sweden’s Leader Community

Mikael Holmqvist is Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Management at Stockholm University. ABSTRACTAll around the world there are ”leader communities”, i.e., places where leaders choose

Mikael Holmqvist is Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Management at Stockholm University.
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10 March, 2016

Group differences in broadness of values may drive dynamics of public opinion on moral issues

Mathematical Social Sciences, 77, 1-8. Abstract Here we propose the idea that the success of an argument in favor of an issue position should depend on whether the argument resonates with the audience’s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , Eriksson, Kimmo
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17 June, 2019

Is risk aversion irrational? Examining the “fallacy” of large numbers

Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01929-5 Abstract A moderately risk averse person may turn down a 50/50 gamble that either results in her winning $200 or losing $100. Such behaviour seems rational i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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16 January, 2017

Animalism and the Varieties of Conjoined Twinning

p. 229-252 in: Animalism, Eds.:Stephan Blatti and Paul Snowdon, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016. New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity. What are we? What is the nature of the human person? An

Type of publication: Chapters | Campbell, Tim , & Jeff McMahan
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04 July, 2016

Learning to play

In 2007, the Swedish gambling agency ran a simple gambling game called LIMBO. Gamblers were invited to stake 10 kronor on a number of their choice between 1 and 99,999. The person choosing the smalles

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13 October, 2009

Housing and First Births in Sweden, 1972-2005

The aim of this study is to explore to what extent housing is a constraint for first births in Sweden 1972-2005. Three characteristics of housing are studied: housing type, tenure, and size of dwellin

Type of publication: Working papers | Sara Ström
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30 October, 2007

Fertility and Relative Cohort Size

This paper estimates the effect of changes in population age structure on fertility through using the Easterlin/Macunovich mechanism. One finding is that as of yet, we do not have a sufficient theory

Type of publication: Working papers | Jaypee Sevilla
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