Hans Grönqvist
Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN) and Linneaus University
Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN) and Linneaus University
Bio
Hans Grönqvist is an economist studying a broad spectrum of issues in labor economics and related fields, including individual and firm-level adjustments to economic crisis and the causes and consequences of criminal behavior.
He is Professor in Economics at the Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN) and Linneaus University. He is also affiliated researcher at Center for Economic Performance (CEP), CESifo, and RFBerlin and a former visiting fellow at Harvard University, Princeton University, London School of Economics and University College London.
More information can be found in his vitae.
Selected publications in international journals
The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration”, 2026, with Susan Niknami, Mårten Palme and Mikael Priks, Economic Journal (in press)
The Effects of Electronic Monitoring on Offenders and their Families”, 2024, with Julien Grenet and Susan Niknami, Journal of Public Economics
Understanding How Low Levels of Early Lead Exposure Affect Children's Life-Trajectories, 2020, with Peter Nilsson and Per-Olof Robling, Journal of Political Economy,
Adolecent Time Preferences Predict Lifetime Outcomes, 2014, 124(580), pp. F565-F761, with Bart Golsteyn and Lena Lindahl, Economic Journal,
Published paper, Working paper version
Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy, 2011, 3(2), pp. 67-95, with Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Olof Åslund, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics,
Unpublished work
"How Early Career Choices Adjust to Economic Crisis, 2026, IFN Working-paper. with Julien Grenet, Edvin Hertegård, Martin Nybom and Jan Stuhler, (Revision requested at Journal of Public Economics)
"How Parenting Styles Shape Children’s Lifetime Outcomes", IFN Working-paper. with
Thomas Dohmen, Bart Golsteyn, Edvin Hertegård, and Gerard Pfann
"Effects of Neighborhood Labeling on Student Performance and Sorting”, 2025, with Magdalena Dominguez and Torsten Santavirta
“Making Criminal Background Salient: How Universal Access to Online Criminal Databases Affects Ex-Offenders”, 2023, with Erika Forsberg, Susan Niknami and Mårten Palme
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
Economic Policy Analysis using Big Data (advanced level)
Econometrics (PhD)
Department coordinator of Master's Thesis Work