Working Papers

Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices, 2023, with Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kjell Salvanes

Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability, 2023, with Sara Abrahamsson and Krzysztof Karbownik

Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Commuting, 2023, with René Karadakic and Alexander Willén

Health  and Retirement Effects in a Collective Consumption Model of Older  Households, 2011, with Arthur Lewbel and Shannon Seitz

Work in Progress

Pregnancy Loss - Stress, Investment and Subsequent Children, with Deirdre Coy, Orla Doyle, and Rita Ginja

Long-Term Consequences of Air Pollution: Does Age or Years of Exposure Matter? with Zichen Deng and Kjell Salvanes

Intergenerational Effects of Access to Infant Health Care, with Sara Abrahamsson, Katrine V. Løken, and Marianne Page

Fertility, Family Formation and Human Capital, with Eirik Berger and Kjell Salvanes

Status Traps in Social Mobility and Human Capital Investment, with Erling Risa and Kjell Salvanes

The Urban Wage Premium and the Changing Nature of Work from 1967—2010, with Patrick Bennett, Kjell Salvanes, and Darina Steskal

Published/Accepted Work

(Breaking) intergenerational transmission of mental health, 2023, with Rita Ginja, Krzysztof Karbownik, and Fanny Landaud, forthcoming Journal of Human Resources

School Selectivity, Peers, and Mental Health, with Rita Ginja, Fanny Landaud, and Katrine V. Løken, forthcoming The Economic Journal.

Breaking the Link: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility, with Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kjell Salvanes, forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics.

Building Bridges and Widening Gaps - Efficiency Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions, with Katrine V. Løken and Alexander L.P. Willén, forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics.

Public Finance in the Era of the COVID-19 Crisis, with David R. Agrawal, International Tax and Public Finance, 29, 1349–1372, 2022. 

Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018, with Hannes Schwandt, Janet Currie, Marlies Bär, James Banks, Paola Bertoli, Sarah Cattan, Beatrice Zong-Ying Chao, Claudia Costa, Libertad González, Veronica Grembi, Kristiina Huttunen, René Karadakic, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Stefano Lombardi, Peter Redler, Carlos Riumallo-Herl, Ana Rodríguez-González, Kjell G. Salvanes, Paula Santana, Josselin Thuilliez, Eddy van Doorslaer, Tom Van Ourti, Joachim K. Winter, Bram Wouterse, and Amelie Wuppermann, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(40), 2021. 

The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health, with Julie Riise and Meghan Skira, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(1), 67-105, 2021. 

Income Inequality and Mortality: A Norwegian Perspective, with René Karadakic and Kjell Salvanes, Fiscal Studies, 42(1), 193-221, 2021.

How Cognitive Ability and Personality Traits Affect Geographic Mobility, with Giovanni Peri, Journal of Labor Economics, 39(2), 559-595, 2021. 

Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign, with Kjell Salvanes, Review of Economic Studies, 87(5), 2087–2125, 2020. 

Employment Effects of Healthcare Policy: Evidence from the 2007 FDA Black Box Warning on Antidepressants, with Christopher Cronin and Meghan Skira, Journal of Health Economics, 73, 2020.

Evidence that prenatal testosterone transfer from male twins reduces the fertility and socioeconomic success of their female co-twins , with David N. Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Christopher W. Kuzawa, and Kjell G. Salvanes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (14) 6749-6753, 2019. 

Infant Health Care and Long-Term Outcomes, with Katrine Løken and Kjell Salvanes, Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(2), 341-354, 2019. 

This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout, with Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell Salvanes, forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(3), 531-546, 2019.

Childhood Nutrition and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a School Breakfast Program, with Eirin Mølland and Kjell Salvanes, Journal of Public Economics, 168, 62–80, 2018.

The Role of Parenthood on the Gender Gap among Top Earners,  with Sissel Jensen and Kjell Salvanes, European Economic Review, 109, 103-123, 2018.

Missing Work is a Pain: The Effect of Cox-2 Inhibitors on Sickness Absence, with Meghan Skira, Journal of Human Resources, 53(1), 71-122, 2018.

The Economies of Scale of  Living Together and How They Are Share with Michael Gerfin, Review of Economics of the Household, 15(2), 433-453, 2017.

Revisiting ‘mothers and sons’ preference formation and the female labor force in Switzerland, Labour Economics, 20, 2013, 82 - 91.

Semiparametric Base-Independent Equivalence  Scales and the Cost of Children in Switzerland, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 148(1), 2012, 1 – 35. 

Traffic Accidents in Switzerland: How Hazardous Are “High Risk” Groups? An Analysis Based on Police Protocols, with Thomas Gautschi and Dominik Hangartner, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 143(4), 2007, 397 – 424.