Mikael Elinder

I am professor at the department of economics, Uppsala University, director of Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies and co-founder and owner of Prexpect and Pregspect.

My research is mostly interdisciplinary and empirical. I have published papers on behavior related to various topics, such as: inheritances, charitable giving, public health, voting, disasters, pensions, the housing market, energy consumption, as well as on trust, inequality, and public finances.

My current focus is on: health, giving behavior, intelligence, and prediction models in the health care sector.

Email: Mikael.Elinder@nek.uu.se

Selected publications

An inquiry into the relationship between intelligence and prosocial behavior: Evidence from Swedish population registers, Economic Journal 135, 1141–1166, 2025, (with Oscar Erixson), Link.
Mind the tap - How volumetric pricing affect hot water consumption, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists , 2025, (with Xiao Hu and Che-Yuan Liang) Link.
Cognitive ability, health policy, and the dynamics of COVID-19 vaccination, Journal of Health Economics, 2023, (with Oscar Erixson and Mattias Öhman) Link.
Inheritance and wealth inequality: Evidence from population registers, Journal of Public Economics 165, 17–30, 2018 (with Oscar Erixson and Daniel Waldenström) Link.
Consequences of a price incentive on free riding and electric energy consumption, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 114(12), 3091–3096, 2017 (with Sebastian Escobar and Ingel Petré) Link.
Promises, policies and pocketbook voting, European Economic Review 75, 177–194, 2015 (with Henrik Jordahl and Panu Poutvaara) Link.
Gender, social norms, and survival in maritime disasters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109(33), 13220– 13224, 2012 (with Oscar Erixson) Link.

Get in touch at mikael.elinder@nek.uu.se

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