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Working Papers

2024

1. Labor Market Effects of a Youth Summer Employment Program in Sweden
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (1)
   Also in Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (2024) View citations (1)
2. The Effect of an Anonymous Grading Reform for Male and Female University Students
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics
   See also Journal Article The effect of an anonymous grading reform for male and female university students, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2025) (2025)

2023

3. The Housing Wealth Effect: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   Also in Working Paper Series, Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden) (2018) View citations (2)
   2019 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics (2019) View citations (1)
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (2019) View citations (3)

2021

4. The Causal Effect of Political Power on the Provision of Public Education: Evidence from a Weighted Voting System
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (1)
   Also in Papers, arXiv.org (2021) View citations (1)
5. The Causal Effect of Transport Infrastructure: Evidence from a New Historical Database
   Research Papers in Economics, Stockholm University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
   Also in Papers, arXiv.org (2021) View citations (4)
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (2021) View citations (2)
6. The Quality and Efficiency Between Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics

2020

7. The Genius is a Male: Stereotypes and Same-Sex Bias in Exam Grading in Economics at Stockholm University
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics
8. The Impact of Banning Mobile Phones in Swedish Secondary Schools
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The impact of banning mobile phones in Swedish secondary schools, Economics of Education Review, Elsevier (2020) View citations (2) (2020)

2019

9. Gender Grading Bias in Junior High School Mathematics
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Gender grading bias in junior high school mathematics, Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals (2020) (2020)
10. The Political Economics of Growth, Labor Control and Coercion: Evidence from a Suffrage Reform
    Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (4)

2018

11. Gender Grading Bias at Stockholm University: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from an Anonymous Grading Reform
    Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (5)

2017

12. Age-Dependent Court Sentences and Crime Bunching: Empirical Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data
    Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (4)
13. Gender Quotas in the Board Room and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Credible Threat in Sweden
    Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (7)
14. Political Power, Resistance to Technological Change and Economic Development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden
    Research Papers in Economics, Stockholm University, Department of Economics View citations (5)

2016

15. The Impact of Upper-Secondary Voucher School Attendance on Student Achievement: Swedish Evidence using External and Internal Evaluations
    Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (1)
    Also in Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (2016)
    Research Papers in Economics, Stockholm University, Department of Economics (2016)
    See also Journal Article The impact of upper-secondary voucher school attendance on student achievement. Swedish evidence using external and internal evaluations, Labour Economics, Elsevier (2017) View citations (14) (2017)

2011

16. Ethnic Discrimination in High School Grading: Evidence from a Field Experiment
    SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, Stockholm School of Economics View citations (4)

2010

17. Are boys discriminated in Swedish high schools?
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article Are boys discriminated in Swedish high schools?, Economics of Education Review, Elsevier (2011) View citations (53) (2011)

2007

18. Do Politicians Free-ride? - an empirical test of the common pool model
    SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, Stockholm School of Economics View citations (4)

Journal Articles

2025

1. The effect of an anonymous grading reform for male and female university students
   Economics Letters, 2025, 248, (C)
   See also Working Paper The Effect of an Anonymous Grading Reform for Male and Female University Students, Working Paper Series (2024) (2024)

2023

2. The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 137, (4), 2213-2262

2022

3. Grading bias and the leaky pipeline in economics: Evidence from Stockholm University
   Labour Economics, 2022, 78, (C) View citations (7)

2020

4. Gender grading bias in junior high school mathematics
   Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27, (11), 915-919
   See also Working Paper Gender Grading Bias in Junior High School Mathematics, Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (4) (2019)
5. The impact of banning mobile phones in Swedish secondary schools
   Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, (C) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper The Impact of Banning Mobile Phones in Swedish Secondary Schools, Working Paper Series (2020) View citations (1) (2020)

2017

6. The impact of upper-secondary voucher school attendance on student achievement. Swedish evidence using external and internal evaluations
   Labour Economics, 2017, 47, (C), 1-14 View citations (14)
   See also Working Paper The Impact of Upper-Secondary Voucher School Attendance on Student Achievement: Swedish Evidence using External and Internal Evaluations, Working Paper Series (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2015

7. Discrimination against students with foreign backgrounds: evidence from grading in Swedish public high schools
   Education Economics, 2015, 23, (6), 660-676 View citations (9)

2014

8. Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence From Sweden 1919–1938
   Econometrica, 2014, 82, (3), 961-993 View citations (75)

2012

9. Gender and ethnic discrimination in the rental housing market
   Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19, (1), 1-5 View citations (25)

2011

10. Are boys discriminated in Swedish high schools?
    Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30, (4), 682-690 View citations (53)
    See also Working Paper Are boys discriminated in Swedish high schools?, Working Paper Series (2010) View citations (10) (2010)

2009

11. Do merging local governments free ride on their counterparts when facing boundary reform?
    Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, (5-6), 721-728 View citations (76)