Erik Lindqvist

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Erik Lindqvist received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics in 2007. He was a research fellow at IFN between 2007 and 2010 and thereafter spent eight years as a faculty member at the Stockholm School of Economics. During the period 2011-2021 was Erik affiliated researcher to IFN and from September 2018 a full professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.

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Erik Lindqvist

At IFN Erik Lindqvist conducted research within two larger projects.

The first project aimed to answer questions about the causal impact of wealth shocks on various life outcomes, such as health, child development, labor supply, and financial choices. To this end, three data sets of Swedish lottery players are matched to rich data from administrative records. The total sample comprise about 400 000 lottery winners and a total prize sum of approximately 1 billion dollars.

The second project investigated questions the role of human capital and skills for labor market outcomes and financial decision making.

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Journal Articles

19 April 2021 Håkanson, Christina, Erik Lindqvist and Jonas Vlachos (2021). “Firms and Skills: The Evolution of Worker Sorting”. Journal of Human Resources 56(2), 512–538. doi.org/10.3368/jhr.56.2.0517-8801R2

14 January 2021 Briggs, Joseph, David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist and Robert Östling (2021). “Windfall Gains and Stock Market Participation”. Journal of Financial Economics 139(1), 57–83. doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.07.014

01 November 2020 Lindqvist, Erik, Robert Östling and David Cesarini (2020). “Long–Run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well–Being”. Review of Economic Studies 87(6), 2703–2726. doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa006

19 March 2020 Östling, Robert, David Cesarini and Erik Lindqvist (2020). “Association Between Lottery Prize Size and Self–reported Health Habits in Swedish Lottery Players”. JAMA Network Open 3(3), e1919713. doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.19713

01 December 2017 Cesarini, David, Erik Lindqvist, Matthew J. Notowidigdo and Robert Östling (2017). “The Effect of Wealth on Individual and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries”. American Economic Review 107(12), 3917–3946. doi.org/10.1257/aer.20151589

01 May 2016 Cesarini, David, Erik Lindqvist, Robert Östling and Björn Wallace (2016). “Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players”. Quarterly Journal of Economics 131(2), 687–738. doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjw001

01 January 2016 Grönqvist, Erik and Erik Lindqvist (2016). “The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training”. Journal of Labor Economics 34(4), 869–898. doi.org/10.1086/686255

01 June 2013 Lindqvist, Erik and Robert Östling (2013). “Identity and Redistribution”. Public Choice 155, 469–491. doi.org/10.1007/s11127-011-9877-9

01 January 2012 Lindqvist, Erik (2012). “Height and Leadership”. Review of Economics and Statistics 94(4), 1191–1196. doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00239