Linna Martén

PUBLICATIONS

Individualized benefits and access to active labor market programs boost refugee women's economic integration (with Lillit Ottosson and Cristina Bratu), 2025, forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics

Politicians’ Neighborhoods: Where do they Live and does it Matter? (with O. Folke, J. Rickne and M. Dahlberg), 2024, Journal of Politics, Vol. 86(3), 953-967.  

Media Coverage: Sveriges Radio, SVT, SvD, Omni

Coping with job loss: evidence from military base closures (with M, Dahlberg and B, Öckert), 2024, Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Local Policing and the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented College Students (with N. Harder, A. Hsin, and J. Legewie), 2022, Sociological Science, 9, 406-429

Ethnic networks can foster the economic integration of refugees (with J. Hainmueller and D. Hangartner), 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 116 (33), pp. 16280-16285  

Media coverage: Forbes, Sveriges Radio, 

Demand for Redistribution: Individuals' Response to Economic Setbacks, 2019, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 121 (1), pp. 225-242 

Protecting Unauthorized Immigrant Mothers Improves their Childrens' Mental Health (with J. Hainmueller, D. Lawrence, B. Black, L. Figueroa, M. Hotard, T. R. Jiménez, F. Mendoza, M. I. Rodriguez, J. J. Swartz, D. D. Laitin), 2017, Science, Vol. 357(6355), pp. 1041-1044

Media coverage: Washington Post, Huffington Post, Reuters, Vox, Verge, Yahoo News, Newsweek

WORK IN PROGRESS 

Political Bias in Court? Lay Judges and Asylum Appeals

Media coverage:  Sveriges Radio, Dagens Nyheter, Dagens Nyheter (editorial), Aftonbladet, Uppsala Nya Tidning,  SVT, Metro, Dagens Juridik   

Voluntary Return of Refugees: Policies and Financial Incentives (with H. Andersson and K. Jutvik)

Optimizing Placement to Improve Refugees' Outcomes (with K. Bansak)

Temporary or Permanent Residence Permit: Effects on Refugees' Integration Outcomes (with C. Bratu and L. Ottosson)

Transnational Trauma: Mental Health Effects of War on Expatriates (with M. Karadja, A, Khan and J. Romero)

OTHER WRITING 

Bevara Sverige permanent? Svenska folkets åsikter om att avskaffa permanenta uppehållstillstånd (with Sebastian Lundmark), Inferno, SOM-institutets forskarantologi 2024

Reform av introduktionsprogram ökade flyktingkvinnors sysselsättning  (with Lillit Ottosson and Cristina Bratu), Ekonomisk debatt, 2023 51(2)    

The little-known benefit of DACA: It reduced mental illness in dreamers’ children (with D. Laitin and J. Hainmueller), Monkey Cage, Washington Post, September 6, 2017               

ONGOING RESEARCH GRANTS

Refugees, asylum policies, and health, FORTE, 2018 (PI)

A Fresh Start? Understanding the Consequences of Debt Relief, 2020, Handelsbanken (PI Luca Repetto)

Voluntary return of refugees: Policies and financial incentives, 2020, Handelsbanken (PI)

Who gets asylum? The impact of traits and biases on bureaucrats' decision making, 2020, Formas (PI Henrik Andersson)

Stalled integration? How experience with anti-immigrant expressions and ethnic neighbourhoods affect

immigrants' political integration, 2021, Vetenskapsrådet (PI Frida Boräng)

Refugee integration programs: household dynamics and intergenerational spillover effects  2024, Handelsbanken (PI)