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IFN Researcher
What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?
We use rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study the lack of women among CEOs. A comprehensive battery of graduates’ characteristics explains 40% of the gender…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/18/2016
What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?
We use rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study the lack of women among CEOs. A comprehensive battery of graduates’ characteristics explains 40% of the gender…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/15/2022
JAQ of All Trades: Job Mismatch, Firm Productivity and Managerial Quality
Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this question we develop a job-worker allocation quality measure (JAQ) by combining employer…
Working Paper
Publish date 4/1/2022
Moral Consensus and Antiestablishment Politics
Populism is a foreseeable reaction against the limited moral conception of society offered by both traditional left and right parties. Traditional parties have effectively rendered many voters homeles…
Journal Article
Publish date 7/26/2021
Den svenska skolans silverålder
Föreställningen om det tidigare skolsystemet som mekaniskt och auktoritärt lever i hög utsträckning kvar i vår tid. Men faktum är att den gamla svenska skolan var mycket välfungerande, skriver forskar…
Popular Science
Publish date 3/22/2022
IFN Researcher
Trust Us to Repay: Social Trust, Long-Term Interest Rates, and Sovereign Credit Ratings
This paper asks whether the sensitivity of market long-term interest rates and credit ratings is associated with cross-country differences in informal institutions, measured by social trust. We note a…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/13/2021
IFN Researcher
Do Schools Discriminate against Children with Disabilities? A Field Experiment in Sweden
This article presents the results of a field experiment in which fictitious parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) sent inquiries…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/1/2021
The Impact of Attending an Independent Upper Secondary School: Evidence from Sweden Using School Ranking Data
Since the 1990s, the Swedish education market has gone through a dramatic transformation due to the introduction of voucher-funded independent schools. We make use of data on school applications to co…
Journal Article
Publish date 9/7/2021
Distansundervisning slår mot studenterna
Att behålla en del av undervisningen inom högskolan på distans skulle försämra studenternas psykiska hälsa och förstärka klyftorna mellan olika socioekonomiska grupper. Det skriver Adrian Mehic och Ch…
Op-Ed
Publish date 5/23/2021
Revisiting Sweden's Comprehensive School Reform: Effects on Education and Earnings
We revisit a Swedish comprehensive school reform first evaluated by Meghir and Palme (2005). This reform increased years of schooling and abolished tracking. We extend the original analysis to the ful…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/29/2022