My research centers on income inequality,  poverty, socio-economic mobility, and wealth inequality, especially in a cross-national perspective. I have recently spent much time trying to understand and quantify the importance of family background in the distribution of economic resources.

I teach methods for inequality analysis, mostly at the graduate (PhD level).

Citations according to Google scholar. 

Selected publications (links may require institutional access rights, alas) 

Articles: 

• Habit Formation and the Misallocation of Labor: Evidence from Forced Migrations (with Matti sarvimäki and Roope Uusitalo)

• Inequality measurement with grouped data: Parametric and nonparametric methods  (with Vanesa Jorda and José Marı́a Sarabia)

• Intergenerational mobility, intergenerational effects, sibling correlations, and equality of opportunity: A comparison of four approaches (with Anders Björklund)

• The Determinants of Redistribution around the World (with Jukka Pirttilä and Risto Rönkkö)

Edited volumes: 

• From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage 

• Income Inequality Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries 

Working papers:

• Income Distribution in Sweden in a Comparative Perspective: Evidence from New LIS-data (with Anders Björklund)

Teaching:

• Economics of Inequality, 2nd year PhD class within the Stockholm Doctoral Programme in Economics (dormant, for now)

Code:

• incdist A package for income distribution analysis in R (in development). Install using 

install.packages("remotes") 

remotes::install_github("mjantti/incdist")  

My resume