Welcome to SOFI

Our research is focused on social policy, welfare, inequality, and the labour market. More on SOFIs research here.

SOFI researchers in the media

Randi Hjalmarsson, Helena Holmlund, and Matthew Lindquist have published an article in VOX entitled "Can education policy be used to fight crime?" How should society fight crime? This column argues education policy should be part of the answer. Exploiting a Swedish education reform as a source of exogenous variation in years of education, it suggests that one additional year of schooling decreases the likelihood of conviction by 7.5% for males and by 11% for females.

Recent publication

Kuivalainen, S., Nelson, K. 2011. "Eroding minimum income protection in the Nordic countries? Reassessing the Nordic model of social assistance". In Kvist, J., Fritzell, J., Hvinden B., Kangas, O. Changing social equality. The Nordic welfare model in the 21st century. Bristol: Policy Press.

Events and seminars

Seminarium AME: Martin Halla (Johannes Kepler University) 2012-05-24
Seminarium SVS: Heike Solga 2012-05-29
AME seminarium: Lena Nekby (Dep of Economics, Stockholm) 2012-05-31
Seminarium SVS: Jaap Dronkers 2012-06-12

Show all events

MY UNIVERSITY