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With its eleven newly admitted companies, SSE Business Lab is reaching a new milestone: 307 startups have now passed through the incubator. More than one third of these were admitted just in the past four years.

Higher-income individuals live longer, not because they have better access to healthcare, but due to differences in income, preferences, and health shocks. Johanna Wallenius, Professor of Economics at the º£½ÇÉçÇøÏÂÔØ School of Economics, and Panos Margaris from Concordia University, reveal in a new study that lifestyle choices and preventive care habits play a crucial role in explaining this gap.

SSE President Lars Strannegård has been selected to speak on Swedish Radio's program Sommar i P1. He will share his thoughts on the importance of the fundamentally human, as machines are becoming smarter by the day.

º£½ÇÉçÇøÏÂÔØ(SSE) is establishing a new chair with a focus on sports and business – the first of its kind in the School's history. The new professorship is made possible by a donation from Malin and Stefan Linder and will be held by Martin Carlsson-Wall.

A new collaboration aims to help CEOs in the business sector enhance their work in increasing diversity and inclusion. The collaboration is between Mitt Liv, a leading partner for diversity, equity and inclusion, and the º£½ÇÉçÇøÏÂÔØExecutive Education, ranked best in the Nordics for leadership and business development according to the Financial Times.

Four researchers at the Department of Economics were awarded grants from the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation and Tore Browaldh Foundation.

The º£½ÇÉçÇøÏÂÔØis making a big commitment to promoting wellbeing among its students. Starting in August, the School will be the first in the world to offer all new bachelor students a crash course in happiness and wellbeing.

A multi-analyst study where over 160 independent research teams in finance tested the same six hypotheses on the same data set, found very large variation in results across the research teams. Anna Dreber Almenberg and Magnus Johannesson, Professors at the Department of Economics at SSE, and co-authors publish a new article in Journal of Finance.

The º£½ÇÉçÇøÏÂÔØ Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) is proud to highlight two significant contributions by Torbjörn Becker, Director of SITE, and Anders Ã…slund, the founding director of SITE, to the newly released book, "The Borders of the European Union in a Conflictual World".

The President of the º£½ÇÉçÇøÏÂÔØ School of Economics, Lars StrannegÃ¥rd, has been awarded a Leadership Scholarship by The Swedish Employers' Alliance (Arbetsgivaralliansen). He was presented with the award yesterday during the annual general meeting of the alliance.