Recent Publications

Competition and Career Advancement. (Joint with Julian Johnsen and Hyejin Ku). Forthcoming Review of Economic Studies. A New York Times op-ed based on this paper.

The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1935 School Reform. (Joint with Daron Acemoglu, Matti Sarvamaki, and Tuomas Pakkarinen). Forthcoming  Journal of the European Economic Association. 

The (Un)Importance of Inheritance, January 2022. (Joint with Sandy Black, Paul J. Devereux, and Fanny Landaud). Forthcoming  Journal of the European Economic Association. 

Monopsony, Skills, and Labor Market Concentration. 2020 (joint with Samuel Dodini, Michael F Lovenheim, and Alexander Willén). Forthcoming Economic Journal.

Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility. (Joint with Aline Butikofer and Antonio Dalla-Zuanna). Forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics.

The Effect of Labor Market Shocks Across the Life Cycle. (Joint with Barton Willage and Alexander Willén). Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, Vol. 42 (1), pp. 121-160.

Supply of Skills and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Opening Expansion Reform. (Joint with Pedro Carneiro and Kai Liu). CEPR Working paper no. 13045.  Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, Vol. 21(1), pp. 48–92. 

Where Does Wealth Come From? Measuring Lifetime Resources in Norway  Working Paper #28239, December 2020. (Joint with Sandy Back, Paul J. Devereux, and Fanny). Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, Vol. 37 (4), pp. 115–136.

What are the Drivers Intergenerational Mobility? The Role of Family, Neighborhood, Education, and Social Class. A Review of Bukodi and Goldthorpe's Social Mobility and Education in Britain. Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, Vol. 61(4), pp. 1540-78.

Mothers Working During Preschool Years and Child Skills. Does Income Compensate?  (Joint with Cheti Nicoletti and Emma Tominey). Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, Vol. 41 (2), pp. 389-429.

Gender and Inheritances.  (Joint with Sandra Black, Paul J. Devereux, and Fanny Landaud). American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 2022, May 2022. 

Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why children of teen mothers do worse in life. NBER working paper no. 25165 (Joint with Anna Aizer and Paul J. Devereux). Journal of Human Resources, November 2022, 57 (6) 2012-2047.

Intergenerational Transmission, Human Capital Formation and the Timing of Parental Income (Joint with Pedro Carneiro, Emma Tominey, Italo Lopez-Garcia).  Journal of Political Economy, 2021, Vol. 129(3), pp. 757-788. 

Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign (Joint with Aline Butikofer). Review of Economic Studies, 2020, Volume 87(5), Pp. 2087–2125. 

Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018, with Hannes Schwandt, Janet Currie,  James Banks et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021, Volume118(40).

Income Inequality and Mortality: A Norwegian Perspective (joint with René Karadakic and Aline Butikofer), Fiscal Studies, 2021, Volume 42(1), 193-221.

Prenatal Testosterone Transfer from Male Twins Reduces the Fertility and Socioeconomic Success of their Female Co-Twins (Joint with with Aline Butikofer, David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Christopher W. Kuzawa). Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America. 2019

This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout (Joint with with Sandra Black, Paul Devereux & Aline Butikofer).  Review of Economics and Statistics. 2019 101 (3): 531–546. 

Infant Health Care and Long-Term Outcomes (Joint with Katrine Løken & Aline Butikofer). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019 101 (2): 341–354.

Handbook Chapters and Overviews

Education Research and Administrative Data (Joint with David Figlio and Krzysztof Karbonik). Chapter 2 in Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 5, Elsevier, 2016.

Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies (Joint with Anders Bjørklund). Chapter 3 in Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 3, Elsevier, 2011. 

Work in Progress

The Career Effects of Union Membership (joint with Samuel Dodini, Alexander Willén, and Li Zhu). Under revision for American Economic Review.

The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets: Monopolistic Unions versus Monopsonistic Employers  (joint with Samuel Dodini and Alexander Willén). Under Revision for the Review of Economic Studies. 

Pulled-in and Crowded-out: Heterogeneous Outcomes of Merit-based School Choice. 2021. (joint with Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kai Liu). Under revision for American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 

First generation elite: the role of school social networks (joint with Sarah Cattan and Emma Tominey). Under revision for American Economic Review. 

Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming  (joint with Philipp Ager and Marc Goni). Submitted.

The Decline of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility (Joint with Pat Bennet and Kai Liu). Submitted.

Childhood Shocks Across Ages and Human Capital Formation (Journt with Pedro Carneiro, Barton Willage, and Alexander Willén). Submitted. 

Returning to Education over the Life-Cycle. (Joint with Pat Bennet and Richard Blundell). Submitted.

Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices (Joint with Aline Butikofer and Antonio Dalla-Zuanna). 

How the Second World War Shaped the Norwegian Income Distributions (Joint with Eirik Berger og Ran Ambramitzky).

Collective Climate Action: Air Pollution, Child Outcomes, and Inequality (joint with Aline Butiokofer and Zichen Deng).

Fertility, Family Formation and Human Capital (Joint with Aline Butikofer and Eirik Berger)

Cohabiting, Childbirth and Child Human Capital (joint with Gloria Moroni, Cheti Nicoletti, and Emma Tominey). 

Partial Insurance against Income Shocks, Parental Investment and Child Development. (Joint with Pedro Carneiro and Emma Tominey).

 Education, Income Dynamics, and Life Cycle Inequality. (Joint with Kai Liu and Magne Mogstad). 

Status Traps in Social Mobility and Human Capital Investment. (Joint with Erling Risa and Aline Butikofer).