Publications
Does Placing Children in Out-of-Home Care Increase Their Future Criminality? SNS Research Report, October 2023.
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The Health Effects of Prison (with Randi Hjalmarsson) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14(4), October 2022, 234-270.
This paper analyzes the impact of longer prison exposure on post-release mortality (all cause and cause specific) by taking advantage of two Swedish early release reforms in 1993 and 1999 that held prison sentences constant but changed the share of time inmates were required to serve from one-half to two-thirds.
You can listen to a presentation and discussion of this paper in Episode 41 of the Probable Causation podcast hosted by Texas A&M Professor Jenifer Doleac.
Du kan lyssna på ett kort nyhetsinslag från Sveries Radios vetenskapsredaktion från den 30 september 2021.
On the Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Sibling Correlations (with Theodor Vladasel, Joeri Sol and Mirjam van Praag), Journal of Business Venturing 36(5), September 2021, 1-21.
In the Media: Business News Daily.
Crime and Networks: Ten Policy Lessons (with Yves Zenou), Oxford Review of Economic Policy 35(4), Winter 2019, 746-771.
The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime (with Randi Hjalmarsson), The Economic Journal 129(622), August 2019, 2522-2562.
Cited in The Economist, October 2, 2021
Featured in The Guardian, September 29, 2019
Cited in Dagen Nyheter ledare, March 3, 2017
Op-ed in Dagens Samhelle, August 16, 2016
Featured on Voxeu, April 2, 2016
The Importance of Family Background and Neighborhood Effects as Determinants of Crime (with Karin Hederos Eriksson, Randi Hjalmarsson and Anna Sandberg), Journal of Population Economics 29(1) January 2016, 219-262.
The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data (with Randi Hjalmarsson and Helena Holmlund) The Economic Journal 125(587), September 2015, 1290-1326.
Cited in The Economist, July 10, 2020
Featured on Voxeu, November 29, 2011
Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children? (with Joeri Sol and Mirjam Van Praag), Journal of Labor Economics 33(2), April 2015, 269-296.
Featured in Money Magazine and Business News Daily.
Does Placing Children in Foster Care Increase Their Adult Criminality? (with Torsten Santavirta), Labour Economics 31, December 2014, 72-83.
A Comparison of Upward and Downward Intergenerational Mobility in Canada, Sweden and the United States (with Miles Corak and Bhashkar Mazumder), Labour Economics 30, October 2014, 185-200.
Discussed in Brookings Social Mobility Memo
The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data (with Randi Hjalmarsson), Labour Economics 20, January 2013, 68-81.
Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Decomposing the Intergenerational Transmission of Income (with Lars Lefgren and David Sims), Journal of Political Economy 120(2), April 2012, 268-303.
Featured on EurekaAlert!