 Ph.D. Email: oscar.erixson@ibf.uu.se Researcher Phone: +46(0)704 676 110 Uppsala University CV Affiliations Primary field: Public economics Secondary fields: Labor, family, and behavioral economics I am a researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. The
focus of my research is on empirical work, descriptive as well as causal, in
public economics and its subfields of intergenerational transfers, inequality,
taxation, and charitable giving. It also touches upon a broad range of additional
fields, including urban, family, labor, and health economics as well as other
disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, biology, and law. I have published in leading scientific journals, field economics journals and popular science journals and my research has been covered in many of the most notable international news media outlets. Peer reviewed publications "The impact of inheritances on heirs’ labor and capital income" (with Mikael Elinder and Henry Ohlsson), The B.E. Journal of Economic
Analysis & Policy (Contributions) 12(1): article 61 (2012) Media: Dagens Industri, Dagens Nyheter "Gender, social norms, and survival in maritime disasters" (with Mikael Elinder), Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109(33): 13220-13224 (2012) Media: New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Freakonomics, BBC, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, CBS, Frankfurter Allgemeine, The Hindu, and many more. "Health responses to a wealth shock: Evidence from a Swedish tax reform" Journal of Population Economics, vol. 30, iss. 4, pp. 1281-1336. (2017) "Inheritance and wealth inequality: Evidence from population registers" (with Mikael Elinder and Daniel Waldenström) Journal of Public Economics, vol. 165, pp. 17-30. (2018) "Equal sharing, exchange motives, and Cinderellaeffects" (with Henry Ohlsson) Journal of Population Economics, vol. 32, pp. 1437-1480 (2019) "Deathbed tax planning" (with Sebastian Escobar) Journal of Public Economics, 185 (2020) “The last will: Estate divisions as a testament of to whom altruism is directed” (with Mikael Elinder and Per Engström) PLOS ONE, 2021, 16(7): e0254492. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254492 Unpublished working papers “Estates, Bequests and Inheritances in Sweden. A look into the Belinda databases” (with Mikael Elinder, Sebastian Escobar, Henry Ohlsson) Other publications "Mindre arbete, högre inkomster - arvingens lott" (with Mikael Elinder and Henry Ohlsson), Ekonomisk Debatt 39(4): 70-78 (2012) ”Förmögenhet – mina pengar eller släktens?” (with Henry Ohlsson), Ekonomisk Debatt, No 2. 2015, Vol. 43 "Arvens betydelse för förmögenhetsfördelningen" (with Mikael Elinder and Daniel Waldenström), Ekonomisk Debatt, No 1. 2017, Vol. 45 ”En beklaglig förlust? En ESO-rapport om erfarenheter och lärdomar av arvsskatt” (with Mikael Elinder) Rapport till Expertgruppen för studier i offentlig ekonomi (ESO) 2021:2. Work in progress Intelligence and prosocial behavior (with Mikael Elinder) Wealth Effects on Labor Supply: Evidence From a Swedish Tax Reform (with Ole Agersnap) Effects of heavy metal exposure on human capital development, productivity and prosociality (Research program with Linuz Aggeborn, Jenny Jans, Per Johansson, Peter Nilsson, Sven Oskarsson Mattias Öhman) Other Check out my TEDx talk: Women and Children First or Every Man for Himself? |