From 2018 to 2024 I was the PI for a project financed by the Swedish Research Council and Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser. We have built a large micro data set for incomes in Sweden from 1870 to 1950.

If you are interested in a representative sample of incomes in Stockholm 1870-1950, download the replication files from our Explorations in Economic History article from the ICSPR dataverse.

If you are interested in a strategic sample of affluent residents of Stockholm and its suburbs 1909 to 1950, download the replication files from our June 2025 Journal of Economic History article from the ICSPR dataverse.

I have compiled a dataset for all rural municipalities (before 1862: parishes), about 2400 of them, in Sweden, concentrating on the nineteenth century. The dataset contains information on land concentration, nobility's share of the land (shown in the map on the left), taxed wealth per capita in 1830 and 1907, population 1805-1907, emigration intensity, sectoral employment shares 1900, 1910 and 1930, and more. The replication package contains variables and R code that facilitate linking to electoral outcomes 1911-1944 and other interesting data.

The dataset is used in a paper with Felix Kersting, published in Comparative Political Studies. Read the paper here (it's open access). The dataset is available as part of the replication package, via the Harvard Dataverse.

This is a dataset built on about 5000 probate inventories from the years 1750, 1800, 1850 and 1900. 

The dataset was used in an article published by myself, Anna Missiaia, Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson in the Economic History Review in 2018, as well as several following papers: one on the nobility (2019), one on farmers (2018), and one on the agrarian proletariat (2022). The three latter papers all built on expanded versions of the data -- adding biographical information for the nobility; detailed information about farmers' properties in four regions; and detailed information about crofters' goods. 

Contact me if you want to use the data.

This is a database built on probate inventories from rural and urban southern Sweden (and Denmark) from the late 1500s to the 1860s. The database has been used for a study of farmers and labourers' living standards and productive capacity, published in Rural History, as well as a study of consumption in the same period, published in Social Science History.

The database is free to download from the Lund Economic History department's website.

In 2022, Mats Olsson, Patrick Svensson and I published an article in the Economic History Review called "Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750". 

The article builds on probate inventories from Stockholm from 1650(ish), 1700 and 1750, and the complete taxation records (N=17 782) of the 1715 wealth tax from Stockholm City. If you want to use the data, contact me.

This is a database on the functional income distribution: labour shares and capital shares of national income, since the 1800s. It was created by Daniel Waldenström and myself and used in an article in the Journal of Economic History 2018.

You can download the data from Daniel's website.

This database was created by Anders Larsson, Mats Olsson and myself and used in an article published in Scandinavian Journal of History 2020. 

Download the data from the Lund Economic History Department's data website.