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Working Papers

2021

  1. Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Downloads View citations (14)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2018) Downloads View citations (28)
    Working Paper Series, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research (2018) Downloads View citations (28)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018) Downloads View citations (28)

    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2021)

2020

  1. High School Majors, Comparative (Dis)Advantage, and Future Earnings
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (1)
  2. Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
  3. Long-Run Returns to Field Study in Secondary School
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Downloads View citations (1)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020) Downloads View citations (1)

2018

  1. Backlash in Attitudes After the Election of Extreme Political Parties
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Downloads View citations (7)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2018) Downloads View citations (7)
  2. Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (3)
  3. Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
    Working Paper Series, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research Downloads
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2017) Downloads

    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (2022)
  4. Neighborhood Signaling Effects, Commuting Time, and Employment: Evidence from a Field Experiment
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (13)

2016

  1. Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (7)

2015

  1. Backlash in Policy Attitudes After the Election of Extreme Political Parties
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (5)
  2. Birth Weight in the Long Run
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (6)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015) Downloads View citations (8)

    See also Journal Article in Journal of Human Resources (2018)
  3. Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (9)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015) Downloads View citations (9)

2013

  1. Artifactual Evidence of Discrimination in Correspondence Studies? A Replication of the Neumark Method
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (4)
    Also in POLIS Working Papers, Institute of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS (2013) Downloads View citations (4)

2012

  1. Critical Periods during Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height among Immigrant Siblings
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics Downloads View citations (3)
    Also in Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (2011) Downloads View citations (12)
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2009) Downloads View citations (14)
    Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York (2009) Downloads View citations (10)
  2. Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory Schooling Reform
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (11)
    Also in Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York (2012) Downloads View citations (11)
  3. The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (14)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2012) Downloads View citations (19)

    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2015)
  4. The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital. The Role of Skills and Health
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics Downloads View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Population Economics (2018)

2011

  1. Ability Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Mobility
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics Downloads
  2. Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (45)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2014)
  3. Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (6)
  4. Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (4)
  5. Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in ILR Review (2016)
  6. Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (8)
  7. Increasing Returns to Schooling by Ability? A Comparison Between the US and Sweden
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Manchester School (2014)
  8. Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (12)
  9. Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Applied Economics Letters (2012)
  10. The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (4)
  11. The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Scottish Journal of Political Economy (2012)

2010

  1. No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (10)
  2. Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article in Labour Economics (2011)

2009

  1. Education-occupation mismatch: Is there an income penalty?
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics Downloads View citations (8)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2008) Downloads View citations (12)

    See also Journal Article in Economics of Education Review (2010)
  2. The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (25)
  3. The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads

2008

  1. An Experimental Study of Sex Segregation in the Swedish Labour Market: Is Discrimination the Explanation?
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (7)
  2. Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (1)
  3. Implicit Prejudice and Ethnic Minorities: Arab-Muslims in Sweden
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads
  4. Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (15)
  5. Scientific (Wo)manpower? Gender and the Composition and Earnings of PhDs in Sweden
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (2)

2007

  1. Ethnicity and obesity: evidence of implicit work performance stereotypes in Sweden
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy Downloads View citations (7)
  2. Evidence of Unequal Treatment in Hiring against Obese Applicants: A Field Experiment
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (8)
  3. Implicit Discrimination in Hiring – Real World Evidence
    CReAM Discussion Paper Series, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London Downloads View citations (17)
  4. Implicit Discrimination in Hiring: Real World Evidence
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (22)
  5. The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (2)
    Also in CReAM Discussion Paper Series, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London (2007) Downloads View citations (4)

2006

  1. Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market Using Experimental Data
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Downloads View citations (39)
    See also Journal Article in Labour Economics (2007)

2004

  1. Shifting attitudes and the labor market of minorities: Swedish experiences after 9-11
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy Downloads

2003

  1. Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy Downloads View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2007)

Journal Articles

2023

  1. High School Majors and Future Earnings
    American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15, (1), 351-82 Downloads

2022

  1. Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
    (The Long-run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families)
    Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89, (2), 876-908 Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (2018)
  2. The Effect of Nutritious School Lunches on Education, Health, and Life-Time Income
    CESifo Forum, 2022, 23, (01), 52-56 Downloads

2021

  1. Backlash in policy attitudes after the election of an extreme political party
    Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204, (C) Downloads
  2. Correspondence testing studies
    IZA World of Labor, 2021, 58 Downloads View citations (4)
    Also in IZA World of Labor, 2014, 58 (2014) Downloads View citations (3)
  3. Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams*
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136, (2), 987-1030 Downloads View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper (2021)

2019

  1. Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis
    Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, (C), 136-144 Downloads View citations (3)

2018

  1. Birth Weight in the Long Run
    Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53, (1), 189-231 Downloads View citations (32)
    See also Working Paper (2015)
  2. Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle - evidence from field experiments
    Applied Economics, 2018, 50, (24), 2652-2663 Downloads View citations (10)
  3. Job Search Methods and Wages: Are Natives and Immigrants Different?
    Manchester School, 2018, 86, (2), 219-247 Downloads View citations (1)
  4. The intergenerational transmission of human capital: the role of skills and health
    Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, (4), 1035-1065 Downloads View citations (19)
    See also Working Paper (2012)

2016

  1. Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer, and the Ethnic Wage Gap
    ILR Review, 2016, 69, (1), 227-252 Downloads View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
  2. The health-schooling relationship: evidence from Swedish twins
    Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, (4), 1191-1215 Downloads View citations (10)

2015

  1. The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97, (3), 533-547 Downloads View citations (91)
    See also Working Paper (2012)
  2. The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?
    Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, (C), 100-117 Downloads View citations (25)

2014

  1. Adolescent health and adult labor market outcomes
    Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, (C), 25-40 Downloads View citations (55)
  2. Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings
    Demography, 2014, 51, (5), 1573-1596 Downloads View citations (21)
  3. CRITICAL PERIODS DURING CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12, (6), 1521-1557 Downloads View citations (51)
  4. Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
    American Economic Review, 2014, 104, (3), 1014-39 Downloads View citations (191)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
  5. Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination?
    IZA Journal of Migration and Development, 2014, 3, (1), 1-17 Downloads View citations (9)
  6. Height and Earnings: The Role of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
    Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49, (1), 141-166 Downloads View citations (61)
  7. Increasing Returns to Schooling by Ability? A Comparison between the USA and Sweden
    Manchester School, 2014, 82, 1-20 Downloads
    See also Working Paper (2011)
  8. Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory School Reform
    American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6, (1), 253-78 Downloads View citations (83)

2012

  1. Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring: a correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation
    Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19, (18), 1861-1864 Downloads View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
  2. The Power of Media and Changes in Discriminatory Behavior Among Employers
    Journal of Media Economics, 2012, 25, (2), 98-108 Downloads
  3. The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth – Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
    Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59, (2), 196-223 Downloads View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
  4. Uncertainty and international return migration: some evidence from linked register data
    Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19, (18), 1893-1897 Downloads View citations (8)

2011

  1. Work out or out of work -- The labor market return to physical fitness and leisure sports activities
    Labour Economics, 2011, 18, (3), 399-409 Downloads View citations (34)
    See also Working Paper (2010)

2010

  1. Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence
    Labour Economics, 2010, 17, (3), 523-534 Downloads View citations (80)
  2. Education-occupation mismatch: Is there an income penalty?
    Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29, (6), 1047-1059 Downloads View citations (63)
    See also Working Paper (2009)

2009

  1. Obesity, Attractiveness, and Differential Treatment in Hiring: A Field Experiment
    Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44, (3) Downloads View citations (143)
  2. The Ethnic Employment and Income Gap in Sweden: Is Skill or Labor Market Discrimination the Explanation?*
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111, (3), 487-510 Downloads View citations (13)

2007

  1. Do when and where matter? initial labour market conditions and immigrant earnings
    Economic Journal, 2007, 117, (518), 422-448 View citations (144)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
  2. Evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data
    Labour Economics, 2007, 14, (4), 716-729 Downloads View citations (239)
    See also Working Paper (2006)
  3. Selection in migration and return migration: Evidence from micro data
    Economics Letters, 2007, 94, (1), 90-95 Downloads View citations (74)

2005

  1. Shifts in attitudes and labor market discrimination: Swedish experiences after 9-11
    Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18, (4), 603-629 Downloads View citations (55)

2003

  1. Unemployment and earnings for second generation immigrants in Sweden. Ethnic background and parent composition
    Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16, (4), 787-814 Downloads View citations (45)

2000

  1. Modeling female fertility using inflated count data models
    Journal of Population Economics, 2000, 13, (2), 189-203 Downloads View citations (32)
 
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