Intergenerational Mobility & the Importance of Family Background

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.

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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

Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932–1968 (with Anders Björklund and Markus Jäntti), Journal of Public Economics 93, June 2009, 671-680.

Life-Cycle Variations in the Association between Current and Lifetime Income: Replication and Extension for Sweden (with Anders Böhlmark), Journal of Labor Economics 24(4), October 2006, 879-96.

Like Godfather, Like Son: Exploring the Intergenerational Nature of Crime (with Randi Hjalmarsson), Journal of Human Resources 47(2), Spring 2012, 550-582.

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

What More Than Parental Income, Education and Occupation? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents (with Anders Björklund and Lena Lindahl), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 10(1) Contributions, Article 102, November 2010, 1-38.

The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Sweden (with Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist), Journal of Population Economics 25(4), 2012, 1423-1450.

The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data (with Randi Hjalmarsson), Labour Economics 20, January 2013, 68-81.

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.

Does Placing Children in Foster Care Increase Their Adult Criminality? (with Torsten Santavirta), Labour Economics 31, December 2014, 72-83.

Driving Under the Influence of Our Fathers (with Randi Hjalmarsson), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 10(1) Topics, Article 100, November 2010, 1-15.