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2025:12: The effects of electronic monitoring on offenders and their families

Julien Grenet, Hans Grönqvist and Susan Niknami

2025:11: Women's labor market opportunities and equality in the household

Erik Grönqvist, Yoko Okuyama, Lena Hensvik and Anna Thoresson

2025:10: Processing macroeconomic signals: Voter responses to growth, unemployment, inflation and stock markets

Love Christensen, Mikael Persson and Jana Schwenk

2025:9: Bilingual caseworkers and on-the-job training: A pathway to integration?

Lillit Ottosson and Ulrika Vikman

2025:8: Optimal housing taxation with land scarcity andmaintenance: a Mirrleesian perspective

Spencer Bastani, Sören Blomquist, Firouz Gahvari, Luca Micheletto and Khayyam Tayibov

2025:7: Worker specialization and the consequences of occupational decline

Simon Ek

2025:6: Making the right call: the heterogeneous effects of individual performance pay on productivity

Marco Clemens and Jan Sauermann

2025:5: Mismatch, long-term unemployment and post-COVID labour market programmes in the Nordic countries

Anders Forslund

2025:4: City size, employer concentration, and wage income inequality

Daniel Halvarsson and Martin Korpi

2025:3: Firm-level responses to a canceled dividend tax increase

Johan Holmberg and Håkan Selin

2025:2: The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity

Adrian Adermon, Gunnar Brandén and Martin Nybom

2025:1: Origin, norms, and the motherhood penalty

Olof Åslund, Arizo Karimi and Anton Sundberg

2024:23: Increased flexibility in childcare arrangements: impacts on parents’ careers and children’s school performance

Caroline Hall, Erica Lindahl and Sara Roman

2024:22: Migration inflow and the school performance of incumbent students

Anna Sjögren, Anton Sundberg and Demid Getik

2024:21: Overconfidence and gender gaps in career outcomes: insights from a promotion signaling model

Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe and Oliver Guertler

2024:20: Taxing dividends in a dual income tax system - The Nordic experience with the income splitting rules

Håkan Selin

2024:19: Medical certificates and sickness absence: who stays away from work if monitoring is relaxed?

Yaroslav Yakymovych

2024:18: Territorial capacity and territorial outcomes: Local governance and municipal NEET rates in Sweden

Tomas Korpi, Renate Minas and Lisa Andersson

2024:17: Unpacking the impact of voucher schools: evidence from Sweden

Karin Edmark, Iftikhar Hussain and Carla Haelermans

2024:16: Mandatory notice and layoff, job search, and efficiency

Jonas Cederlöf, Peter Fredriksson, Arash Nekoei and David Seim

2024:15: The health effects of a youth labor market activation policy

Caroline Hall, Kaisa Kotakorpi, Linus Liljeberg and Jukka Pirttilä

2024:14: Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden

Erika Forsberg, Akib Khan and Olof Rosenqvist

2024:13: Labor Market Matching, Wages, and Amenities

Thibaut Lamadon, Jeremy Lise, Costas Meghir and Jean-Marc Robin

2024:12: The child penalty in Sweden: evidence, trends, and child gender

Anton Sundberg

2024:11: Divorce law reform, family stability, and children's long-term outcomes

Edvin Hertegård

2024:10: The heterogeneous earnings impact of job lossacross workers, establishments, and markets

Susan Athey, Lisa Simon, Oskar Skans, Johan Johan Vikström and Yaroslav Yakymovych

2024:9: Professional networks and the labour market assimilation of immigrants

Mattias Engdahl, Sébastien Willis and Olof Åslund

2024:8: Optimal redistribution and education signaling

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto

2024:7: Household specialization and competition for promotion

Spencer Bastani, Lisa Dickmanns, Thomas Giebe and Oliver Gürtler

2024:6: The Boost for reading

Helena Holmlund, Josefin Häggblom and Erica Lindahl

2024:5: Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden

Daniel Knutsson and Björn Tyrefors

2024:4: Health shocks, risk preferences and annuity choices

Johannes Hagen, Michal Hodor and Abigail Hurwitz

2024:3: Origin country institutions and immigrant retirement timing

Axel Cronert and Olof Åslund

2024:2: Reconsidering the cost of job loss: Evidence from redundancies and mass layoffs

Jonas Cederlöf

2024:1: Can model averaging improve propensity score based estimation of average treatment effects?

Valentin Zulj and Shaobo Jin

2023:25: Paternity leave and child outcomes

Daniel Avdic, Arizo Karimi, Anna Sjögren and Elin Sundberg

2023:24: Explaining benefit take-up behavior – the role of incentives and habits

Olof Rosenqvist and Håkan Selin

2023:23: Long-run integration of refugees: RCT evidence from a Swedish early intervention program

Matz Dahlberg, Johan Egebark and Ulrika Vikman

2023:22: Predicting re-employment: machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers

Gerard J. van den Berg, Max Kunaschk, Julia Lang, Gesine Stephan and Arne Uhlendorff

2023:21: The early childhood scaffolding scale Conceptual framework, operationalization and functionality

Sofia Frankenberg

2023:20: Measuring effects of second wave activation: A theoretical model and tutorial for activation programme evaluation

Rickard Ulmestig and Ingeborg Waernbaum

2023:19: Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF policy

Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Hanna Mühlrad and Mårten Palme

2023:18: Education and social mobility

Helena Holmlund and Martin Nybom

2023:17: The long-term integration of refugee children:Swedish experiences after the Yugoslav Wars

Olof Åslund, Linus Liljeberg and Sara Roman

2023:16: The long-term integration of European refugees: Swedish experiences after the Yugoslav Wars

Olof Åslund, Linus Liljeberg and Sara Roman

2023:15: Joining late, leaving early? Immigrant-native disparities in labor market exit

Olof Åslund, Fredrik Larsson and Lisa Laun

2023:14: The marginal cost of public funds: A brief guide

Spencer Bastani

2023:13: The making of ethnic segregation in the labor market -Evidence from a field experiment

Moa Bursell and Magnus Bygren

2023:12: Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality

Martin Nybom, Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw and Lennart Ziegler

2023:11: Inheritance of fields of study

Adam Altmejd