This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and ...

The COVID lockdowns were characterised by new forms of governmentality as lives were disrupted and controlled through the vertical transmission of biopolitics by the state. The paper considers how this was experienced by ...

Recent years have seen a growing public debate concerning the political regulation of cannabis products, substantiated by a multitude of competing narratives about the effects of various policies. However, little is known ...

I en kompleks verden får tiltak og ordninger ofte andre virkninger enn planlagt, fordi det skjer uforutsette ting i omgivelsene. Det kan også være paradokser innebygd i den enkelte ordning som gjør at resultatene ikke blir ...

Using a local randomized experiment that arises from the statutory retirement age in Norway, we study the effect of retirement on health across gender and socioeconomic status. We apply data from administrative registers ...

In ageing societies, it is not uncommon to enter grandparenthood while one’s own parents are still living. Thus, a pertinent question is whether it matters for provision of help to parents if adult children have grandchildren ...

I artikkelen diskuteres i hvilken grad kommunene følger opp det statlige styringssignalet om å bygge ut hjemme- tjenestene for å legge til rette for at eldre kan bo lenger i eget hjem. Videre drøftes hvordan kommunene ...

This article investigates how increased focus on home-schooling influenced children with disabilities´ everyday education during the pandemic. Specifically, I focus on how children with disabilities were able to engage in ...

Hedonic house price models are frequently used to improve our understanding of local housing markets. In recent years, rich registers containing details about home‐qualities and neighbourhood characteristics have successfully ...

In this chapter, the authors discuss the historical development and the current state of the housing and welfare regimes in the Nordic countries, using Sweden and Norway as our main cases. The two neighbouring countries ...