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I am Professor in Economics at the Linnaeus University and the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). 2009-2014 I was Assistant Professor at SOFI, Stockholm University and 2014-2021 I was Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University. My research concerns a broad spectrum of issues in labor economics and related fields with a special emphasis on the causes and consequences of criminal behavior. My dissertation received an honorable mention in the Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award. I have previously spent time as a visiting fellow at Harvard University, Princeton University and University College London.
Research interests
Labor economics, Economics of crime
More information can be found in my vitae.
Publications in international journals
1. The Effects of Electronic Monitoring on Offenders and their Families”, 2023, with Julien Grenet and Susan Niknami, Journal of Public Economics (forthcomming)
2. Understanding How Low Levels of Early Lead Exposure Affect Children's Life-Trajectories, with Peter Nilsson and Per-Olof Robling, Journal of Political Economy, Latest version
3. Education and Criminal Behavior: Insights from an Expansion of Upper Secondary School, with O. Åslund, C. Hall and J. Vlachos, Labour Economics
4. The School Achievements of Refugee Children: Lessons from Sweden, Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2017, pp. 159-185, with Susan Niknami
5. Time Discounting and Criminal Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2016, 133(22), with David Åkerlund, Bart Golsteyn and Lena Lindahl
Published paper, Working paper version with additional results
Covered in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist
6. Adolecent Time Preferences Predict Lifetime Outcomes, Economic Journal, 2014, 124(580), pp. F565-F761, with Bart Golsteyn and Lena Lindahl
Published paper, Working paper version
Summary in VOX and covered in national media including TV4, Aftonbladet, TT
7 The Great Recession, Unemployment and Suicide, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2014,doi:10.1136/jech-2014-204602, with Thor Norström
8. Alcohol Availability and Crime: Lessons from Liberalized Weekend Sales Restrictions, Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 81(3), pp. 77-84, with Susan Niknami
9. Education Policy and Early Fertility: Lessons from an Expansion of Upper Secondary Education, Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37(December), pp. 13-33, with Caroline Hall
10. Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program, Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 31(4), with Per Johansson and Susan Niknami
11. Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3(2), pp. 67-95, with Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Olof Åslund
12. Family Size and Child Outcomes: Is There Really no Trade-Off?, Labour Economics, 2010,17(1), pp. 130-139, with Olof Åslund
13. Ethnic Enclaves and the Attainments of Immigrant Children, European Sociological Review, 2006, vol 22, no. 4. pp. 369-382
Unpublished work
The Burden of Stigma: Neighborhood Reputation and Youth Schooling Paths”, 2022, with Magdalena Dominguez and Torsten Santavirta, manuscript
"How Early Career Choices Adjust to Economic Crisis, 2023, with Julien Grenet, Edvin Hertegård, Martin Nybom and Jan Stuhler, manuscript
“Making Criminal Background Salient: How Universal Access to Online Criminal Databases Affects Ex-Offenders”, 2023, with Erika Forsberg, Susan Niknami and Mårten Palme, manuscript
“Economic Crisis and Labor Demand: Evidence from the Swedish Banking Crisis in the 90s”, 2021, with Julien Grenet and Daniel Jahnson, manuscript
The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration”, NBER Working Paper 24186, with Will Dobbie, Susan Niknami, Mårten Palme and Mikael Priks (Reject and Resubmit at Review of Economics and Statistics)
Immigrant Concentration and Crime Trajectories: Evidence from the “Whole of Sweden Strategy”, SOFI Working-paper 2015:1, with Susan Niknami and Per-Olof Robling (Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Public Economics)
Youth Unemployment and Crime: New Lessons Exploring Longitudinal Register Data“, SOFI Working-Paper No. 6/2011 (Status: Revision requested by Journal of Labor Economics)
Putting Teenagers on the Pill: The Consequences of Subsidized Oral Contraception”, Working Paper. Previous version published as IFAU Working paper 2009:8 (Status: Revision requested by Journal of Human Resources)
Teaching
Public Economics (undergraduate level)
Economic Policy Analysis using Big Data (advanced level)
Econometrics (PhD)
Job Market Preparation Course (PhD)
Department coordinator of Master's Thesis Work
