1 Research
Working Papers
Decomposing the Parental Education Gradient in health: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees (with Evelina Björkegren, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova), (for an earlier version, see NBER Working Paper No. 28214, (dec 2020) https://www.nber.org/papers/w28214), Accepted, Journal of Labor Economics
Earnings Expectations and Educational Sorting: An Ex-Ante Perspective on Returns to University Education (with Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson and Ariel Pihl), IFAU Working Paper 2022, https://www.ifau.se/Forskning/Publikationer/Working-papers/2022/earnings-expectations-and-educational-sorting-.-an-ex-ante-perspective-on-returns-to-university-education/, Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Applied Econometrics
Subjective Expectations, Educational Choice Heterogeneity and Gender: Evidence from a Sample of Swedish High School Students (with Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson and Ariel Pihl), First version August 2018, Revised March 2019, Revised 2021.
The Importance of Nature-Nurture Interactions for Skill Formation: Evidence from a Large Sample of Adoptees (with Gunnar Branden and Björn Öckert), mimeo, 2017
Parental Influences on Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees (with Evelina Björkegren, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova), NBER Working Paper No. 21946 (jan 2016)
Publications
Distributional preferences in adolescent peer networks (Alem, Yonas; Kocher, Martin; Schürz, Simon; Carlsson, Fredrik; Lindahl, Mikael), Experimental Economics, vol 26, pp. 223-248, 2023. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10683-022-09775-6
Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility (with Adrian Adermon and Mårten Palme), American Economic Review, vol 11(5), pp. 1523-1548, 2021. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190553
Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees (with Evelina Björkegren, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova), Journal of Human Resources, vol 57(1), pp. 112-142, January 2022. http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/12/03/jhr.57.1.0318-9421R1.abstract
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations (with Adrian Adermon and Daniel Waldenström) Economic Journal, Vol 128(612), Feature: New Directions in Measuring Intergenerational Mobility, F482-F513, 2018. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecoj.12535
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits? (with Oana Borcan and Andreea Mitrut), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol 9(1), 180-209, 2017. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20150074
Parental choice, neighbourhood segregation or cream skimming? An analysis of school segregation after a generalized choice reform (with Anders Böhlmark and Helena Holmlund), Journal of Population Economics, Vol 29(4), 1155-1190, 2016. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-016-0595-y
Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes - Evidence from Sweden’s Large Scale Voucher Reform (with Anders Böhlmark), Economica, Vol. 82, 508-551, 2015. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecca.12130
Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations (with Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren), Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 50(1), 1-33, Winter 2015.
The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption: Evidence from a “Xeroxed” Exam” (with Oana Borcan and Andreea Mitrut), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 120, 32-47, December 2014.
A Test of the Becker-Tomes Model of Human Capital Transmission using Microdata on Four Generations (with Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren), Journal of Human Capital, Vol. 7(1), Spring 2014.
The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’s Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods” (with Helena Holmlund and Erik Plug), Journal of Economic Literature, 49(3): 615-51, 2011.
Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-year olds (with Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink), Economics of Education Review, 29(3), 319-328, 2010.
The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Students on Achievement (with Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink), Review of Economics and Statistics, 89(4), 721-736, 2007.
The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data (with Anders Björklund and Erik Plug), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(3), 999 –1028, 2006.
Home versus School Learning: A new Approach to Estimating the Effect of Class Size on Achievement, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 107(2), 375-394, 2005.
Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality using Lottery Prizes as Exogenous Source of Variation in Income, Journal of Human Resources, 40(1), 144-168, Winter issue 2005.
Family Background and School Performance During a Turbulent Era of School Reforms (with Anders Björklund and Krister Sund), Swedish Economic Policy Review 10(2), 111-136, Fall 2003.
Education for Growth: Why and for Whom? (with Alan Krueger), Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 39 (4), 1101-1136, December 2001.
Education for Growth in Sweden and the World (with Alan Krueger), Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol. 6 (2), 289-339, Autumn 1999. Reprinted in Education Matters: Collected Essays by Alan B. Krueger, Edward Elgar Publishing, October 2000.
Book Review
Review of The Knowledge Capital of Nations: Education and the Economics of Growth. By Eric A.Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann. CESifoBook Series. Cambridge and London: MITPress, 2015, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 53 (4), 1027-1029, December 2015.