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 econometrics and 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)

• Labour income, social transfers and child poverty (with Bruce Bradbury and Lena Lindahl)

• Money and Happiness: Income, Wealth and Subjective Well-being (with Conchita D'Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur)

• The contribution of early-life vs. labour-market factors to intergenerational income persistence: a comparison of the UK and Sweden (with Anders Björklund and Martin Nybom) [See also RES's media briefing.]

• Equality of opportunity and the distribution of long-run income among Swedish men and women (with Karin Hederos and Lena Lindahl)

• Trends in life expectancy by income and the role of specific causes of death (with Karin Hederos, Lena Lindahl, and Jenny Torssander)

Edited volumes:

• From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage

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

Working papers (unpublished or in WP series):

Redistribution, inequality, and growth revisited Comment on ‘Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence’ with Jukka Pirttilä and Risto Rönkkö

Teaching:

• Econometrics I within the Stockholm Doctoral Programme in Economics

• 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