Peers and Culture. Joint with María Sáez-Martí, Reaserch Institute of Industrial Economics. We analyze the evolution of cultural traits. Parents socialize their children to maximize lifetime utility in response to their children’s merit guided adoption of traits and values from society.
Do Grades Discourage or Motivate, Joint with Johnny Zetterberg, IFAU. We analyze the effect on school performance and educational attainment of receiving or not receiving feedback in school. We use detailed data on 9000 Swedish school children born in 1967, containing measures of IQ, test scores and grades as well as family background information and school attainments. We also use data on all children from the cohorts born in 1969 and 1970 to identify the effect on adult educational attainment of being graded.
Child Care Costs and Fertility, Joint with Eva Mörk, IFAU, and Helena Svaleryd, Reaserch Institute of Industrial Economics. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care cost changes across Swedish families and municipalities that resulted from the 2002 nation wide reform of child care fees, we explore the consequences for fertility.
Anna Sjögren (1998) Perspectives on Human Capital: Economic growth, occupational choice and intergenerational mobility. Dissertation in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, Economic Research Institute, Sweden. Adviser: Mårten Palme, Stockholm School of Economics Faculty Opponent: Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago.
Deadlines and Distractions (2008) Forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Theory, joint with Maria Saez-Marti. "Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from coauthorship patterns", Journal of Labor Economics, April 2007, joint with Anne Boschini.
Peers and Culture (2008) Forthcoming in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, joint with Maria Saez-Marti.
Fritt inträde? Ungdomars och invandrades väg till det första arbetet, Välfärdsrådets rapport 2006, SNS förlag, joint with Olof Åslund, Robert Erikson och Oskar Nordström Skans.
"Integration eller utanförskap?" Ekonomisk Debatt, nr 3 2007, joint with Yves Zenou.
"Vad förklarar invandrarares integration på arbetsmarknaden? En teoriöversikt", Integrationsverkets stencilserie 2007:09, Integrationsverket, joint with Yves Zenou.
Sanningen om dagis, Expressen, 26 december 2005
Omöjligt , 2006-08-16 Uppsala Nya Tidningjämföra förskolealternativ
Unga och invandrare väntar allt längre med att söka arbete, Dagens Nyheter, 2006-11-23