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I am Professor in Economics at 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.
Selected publications in international journals
The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration”, 2024, with Susan Niknami, Mårten Palme and Mikael Priks, Economic Journal (conditionally accepted)
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Unpublished work
"Effects of Neighborhood Labeling on Student Performance and Sorting”, 2024, with Magdalena Dominguez and Torsten Santavirta
"How Early Career Choices Adjust to Economic Crisis, 2023, with Julien Grenet, Edvin Hertegård, Martin Nybom and Jan Stuhler,
“Making Criminal Background Salient: How Universal Access to Online Criminal Databases Affects Ex-Offenders”, 2023, with Erika Forsberg, Susan Niknami and Mårten Palme
“Economic Crisis and Labor Demand: Evidence from the Swedish Banking Crisis in the 90s”, 2021, with Julien Grenet and Daniel Jahnson, manuscript
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
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