Published Papers

"The Impact of Children’s Health Shocks on Parents’ Labor Earnings and Mental Health"  (joint with Anne-Lise Breivik), Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics

"The Long-Run Effects of Cesarean Sections" (joint with Ana Rodríguez-González, Mika Kortelainen and Lauri Sääksvuori) , Journal of Human Resources, 57 (2022)

"It's About Time: Cesarean Sections and Neonatal Health" (joint with Ana Rodríguez-González, Miquel Serra-Burriel and Carlos Campillo-Artero), Journal of Health Economics, 59 (2018)                          

Working papers

"The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children's Human Capital" (joint with Cristina Borra, Libertad González and Almudena Sevilla-Sanz) Barcelona GSE Working Paper: 1272, July 2021, Conditionally accepted at Journal of Labor Economics 

Oral Contraceptives and Adolescents' Mental Health (with Meltem Daysal an Ana Rodríguez-González) CEPR Press Discussion Paper No. 18269 

Work in progress

(Not) Thinking about the Future: Inattention and Female Labor Force Participation (joint with Ursina Schaede, Michaela Slotwinski, and Anne Brenøe)

(Baseline and Follow Up completed, AEA RCT Registry 0010399)

The "child penalty'' significantly reduces women’s lifetime earnings and pension savings, but it remains unclear whether these gaps are the deliberate result of forward-looking decisions. This paper provides novel evidence on the role of cognitive constraints in mothers’ labor supply decisions. In a large-scale field experiment that combines rich survey and administrative data, we provide mothers with objective, individualized information about the long-run costs of reduced labor supply. The treatment increases demand for financial information and future labor supply plans, in particular among women who underestimated the long-term costs. Leveraging linked employer administrative data one year post-intervention, we observe that these mothers increase their actual labor supply by 6 percent over the mean.

Investment in the Labor Market and Household Income Pooling (joint with Ursina Schaede, Michaela Slotwinski, and Johannes Stupperich)

(AEA RCT Registry 0012494, Baseline completed, Follow Up in the field)

We document several stylized facts about divorce perceptions and household specialization: First, women are over-optimistic about their own divorce likelihood and over-estimate claims to their partner’s income post-divorce, suggesting that current specialization patterns are not optimal. Second, lower own divorce expectations correlate with lower career aspirations. Third, women who have been exposed to divorce and its financial implications in their close environment are better informed and specialize less in home production. Based on these insights, we develop a testimonial intervention that emulates learning from a divorce experience and measure its impact on household bargaining and career investment.

 
Career shocks and child health (with Ana Rodríguez-González, Erik Grönqvist, Lena Hensvik, Helena Svaleryd, and Anna Thoresson )

The Causal Impact of an Anti-Bullying Intervention on Children’s Development (joint with Ana Rodríguez-González, and Ursina Schaede)
(AEA RCT Registry 0010879)