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Petra Persson

Assistant Professor

Petra Persson received her MSc. degree at Stockholm School of Economics in 2006, after which she spent a year working as a research assistant in China and Russia. She earned her PhD in March 2013 at Columbia University and was appointed Assistant Professor at Stanford University in July 2014. Since 2012 she is research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Boston, MA.

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Petra Persson

Research interests: Health care, Health economics, Household finance, Labor economics, Public economics, Welfare state

Some of Petra Persson's current research projects:

  • Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation
  • Social Insurance and the Marriage Market
  • The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading
  • Social Insurance, Complexity, and Household Inequality
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