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Financial Homo Ignorans in the digital era: How does identity affect our financial behavior and well-being?
This project aims to better understand the role of identity-protective cognition in financial decisions as social media becomes one of the main sources of financial knowledge in th...
Three NOTs to untie: ej, icke and inte in the history of Swedish.
A curious difference between the Scandinavian languages concerns the standard negator: Swedish uses inte, whereas the others use ikke/ekke.The change in default negator from ej to...
Methods and econometric theory for the design of complex randomized experiments in the social sciences
Randomized experiments are one of the most reliable ways to investigate causality. However, their use is limited because a lack of foundational econometric and statistical theory....
A pluricentric perspective on the teaching of Swedish in compulsory school in Finland and Sweden – Policies, ideologies and practices in increasingly heterogenous language educational contexts.(PluSwe)
Swedish is a pluricentric language, i.e. it is spoken in several countries. The project explores how Swedish is taught in Finland and Sweden in grades 1–9. In both countries severa...
Conceptualizing a Digital Monopoly of Force
The state's monopoly of force is a central part of the theoretical understanding of what constitutes a state and for understanding the role and task of the police in exercisin...
Political Party Competition and the Transnational Cleavage in Europe
The purpose of the project is to update our understanding of political party competition for the 21st century by examining and explaining the positioning of political parties on to...
Cotton and Copper in Falun 1740–1800. Women and Men at Work
Did industrialisation drive women out of the labour market, transforming households from a dual-earner to a single, male-headed, bread-winner model? Yes, many modern researchers, p...
Proximal Authority: Towards a Theory of How Favoritism and Gender Shape Authority
The project takes as its starting point that we will overlook many examples of women’s authority if we expect it always to look like that of men.Women are in minority among primary...
Collective Innovation: Augmenting Cumulative Cultural Evolution through Human-AI Collaboration
Human cultural progress is powered by collective innovation - the process of gradual exploration and refinement of innovations across individuals and generations. However, the expl...
Retaining teachers: A discrete choice experiment of factors affecting teachers’ retention-decision and their alignment with national reforms.
Despite national reforms and measures to attract and retain teachers, a shortage of ~12 000 teachers in Sweden, is prognosed by 2035.The project will provide insights into the fact...
Reconstructing Old Literary Southern Saami
The aim of the project is to provide a linguistic description of Old Literary South Saami (OLSS; in Swedish: sydlapska bokspråket). The language is a literary language which was us...
To delegate or not to delegate? An exploration into the role delegation plays in AI-based decision-making
This project delves into the burgeoning practice of managerial decision delegation to Artificial Intelligence (AI), examining the detailed workings of such delegation.It juxtaposes...
The Education Grant - actors, networks and ideas behind the Swedish higher education funding reform 1992-1995
The project will study the reform of the system for funding higher education in Sweden 1992-1995. The core of the reform was pay for performance: universities after 1993 have been...
Zoomtowns, Mobility, and the ‘Invisible’ Population of the Countryside
The Covid-19 pandemic entailed a spread of new digital forms of work which mean that a mandatory presence at a defined workplace has been replaced by the ability to work remotely....
The impact of health in early adulthood on family formation and dissolution processes
This research project explores the important yet underexamined link between men's health and their ability to start and maintain a family. It seeks to understand how health, i...
Diasporas and foreign policy: A comparative analysis
This project examines the role of diaspora groups and their impact on the foreign policy in European democratic states. While liberal democracy implies pluralism and a significant...
“Cut and paste”-techniques and Repetitions in Visual Culture in Seventeenth-Century Sweden
We live in an image-saturated society.This means that every day we are confronted with a multitude of images that are repeated or recreated by merging elements from other images.By...
How much inequality can be explained by family background? A new intergenerational decomposition approach
It is well-known that family background predicts child income. This is often taken to imply that family background is an important driver of cross-sectional income inequality. Howe...
Paths beyonds gang life: An ethnographic study of young gang defectors disengagement from criminal groups in Sweden
Gang crime and gang based gun violence pose a significant challenge in Sweden.Every year, several hundred gang defectors in Sweden seek assistance from society to leave a criminal...
How is valence coded in the olfactory system? The neural mechanisms behind why we like or dislike a smell.
One of the primary functions of olfaction is to assess whether a smell is pleasant or unpleasant (i.e., odor valence). This enables us to make crucial decisions about approaching o...