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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 View citations (14)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2018) View citations (28)
   Working Paper Series, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research (2018) View citations (28)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018) View citations (28)
   See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2021)

2020

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

2018

5. Backlash in Attitudes After the Election of Extreme Political Parties
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (7)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2018) View citations (7)
6. Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
7. Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
   Working Paper Series, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2017)
   See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (2022)
8. Neighborhood Signaling Effects, Commuting Time, and Employment: Evidence from a Field Experiment
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (13)

2016

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

2015

10. Backlash in Policy Attitudes After the Election of Extreme Political Parties
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
11. Birth Weight in the Long Run
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015) View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Human Resources (2018)
12. Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015) View citations (9)

2013

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

2012

14. Critical Periods during Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height among Immigrant Siblings
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
    Also in Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (2011) View citations (12)
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2009) View citations (14)
    Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York (2009) View citations (10)
15. Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory Schooling Reform
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (11)
    Also in Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York (2012) View citations (11)
16. The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (14)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2012) View citations (19)
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2015)
17. The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital. The Role of Skills and Health
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Population Economics (2018)

2011

18. Ability Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Mobility
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics
19. Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (45)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2014)
20. Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (6)
21. Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
22. Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in ILR Review (2016)
23. 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) View citations (8)
24. Increasing Returns to Schooling by Ability? A Comparison Between the US and Sweden
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Manchester School (2014)
25. 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) View citations (12)
26. Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Applied Economics Letters (2012)
27. 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) View citations (4)
28. The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Scottish Journal of Political Economy (2012)

2010

29. No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (10)
30. 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) View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article in Labour Economics (2011)

2009

31. Education-occupation mismatch: Is there an income penalty?
    Working Papers, Lund University, Department of Economics View citations (8)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2008) View citations (12)
    See also Journal Article in Economics of Education Review (2010)
32. The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (25)
33. The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

2004

45. 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

2003

46. 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 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

2022

2. 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 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2018)
3. The Effect of Nutritious School Lunches on Education, Health, and Life-Time Income
   CESifo Forum, 2022, 23, (01), 52-56

2021

4. Backlash in policy attitudes after the election of an extreme political party
   Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204, (C)
5. Correspondence testing studies
   IZA World of Labor, 2021, 58 View citations (4)
   Also in IZA World of Labor, 2014, 58 (2014) View citations (3)
6. 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 View citations (14)
   See also Working Paper (2021)

2019

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

2018

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2012

24. Revealing taste-based discrimination in hiring: a correspondence testing experiment with geographic variation
    Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19, (18), 1861-1864 View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
25. The Power of Media and Changes in Discriminatory Behavior Among Employers
    Journal of Media Economics, 2012, 25, (2), 98-108
26. 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 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
27. Uncertainty and international return migration: some evidence from linked register data
    Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19, (18), 1893-1897 View citations (8)

2011

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

2010

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

2009

31. Obesity, Attractiveness, and Differential Treatment in Hiring: A Field Experiment
    Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44, (3) View citations (143)
32. 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 View citations (13)

2007

33. 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)
34. Evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data
    Labour Economics, 2007, 14, (4), 716-729 View citations (239)
    See also Working Paper (2006)
35. Selection in migration and return migration: Evidence from micro data
    Economics Letters, 2007, 94, (1), 90-95 View citations (74)

2005

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

2003

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

2000

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