Can Social Policy Change Behavior? A Comparative Historical Examination of Parenting Leave Provisions and Gender-Equal Care
This project assesses gender equality in parenting leave provisions across 31 European countries since 1965 and examines relationships between leave provisions and gendered leave use. We will also investigate how exposure to parenting leave rights over time might influence mothers' and fathers' leave use. The research makes use of unique country-level data on parenting leave provisions collected by the research team.
The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR) for 2024-2026 (2023-01349). Research participants include Kenneth Nelson (University of Oxford) and Ann-Zofie Duvander (Stockholm University and Mid-University Östersund).
The Power of Protest? Investigating Forms of Collective Action and their Influence on Environmental Policies
As part of a global action in 2019, students went on strike from school. The action was inspired by Greta Thunberg, a 16 year-old Swedish environmental activist, and called on world leaders to take immediate action on the climate crisis. Will such actions have an impact on government responses?
Earlier research has been so far inconclusive about the impact of protest on legislation, but clear evidence of protest effects on legislative agenda-setting and beyond has emerged from more advanced data-intense analyses. In this light, Katrin Uba (P.I., Uppsala University) and I investigate protest-policy relationships over a forty-year period in Sweden using new data and an innovative design.
This project is funded by the Swedish Research Council for 2020-2022 (2019-02918).
Pandemic Resilience: Comparing Longitudinal Post-COVID Changes in Work and Family Life
How durable are the work-life changes we have experienced during the pandemic? Together with an international team of family policy experts (Familydemic), this research examines relationships between family-supportive policies, disease containment measures and (1) stability in family and employment situations, (2) divisions of paid and unpaid labor between couples and (3) variation in experiences by single- and coupled-parents and other characteristics, such as gender, earnings and occupation.
Seed funding was provided by a 2021 Social Sciences Scholarship from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (SO2021-0028).