Selected Publications
The impact of upper-secondary voucher school attendance on student achievment. Swedish evidence using external and internal evaluations . Labour Economics, Volume 47, August 2017, Pages 1-14. Med Jonas Vlachos. (WP-version)
Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence from Sweden 1919-1938. Econometrica, 82, pp.961-993. 2014, Med Per Pettersson-Lidbom.(WP-version)
Are Boys Discriminated in Swedish High Schools ? Economics of Education Review, 30, pp. 682–690, 2011. Med Erik Höglin och Magnus Johannesson. (WP-version)
Do Merging Local Governments Free Ride on Their Counterparts When Facing Boundary Reform. Journal of Public Economics, 93 , pp. 721-728, 2009. (WP-version)
New Working Papers
Quality and Efficiency Between Public and Private Firms: Evidence From the Ambulance Services. IFN Working Paper No. 1365. Med Daniel Knutsson.
The Genius is a Male: Stereotypes and Same-Sex Bias in Exam Grading in Economics at Stockholm University. IFN Working Paper No. 1362. Med Joakim Jansson.
The Role of the Weighted Voting System in Investments in Local Public Education: Evidence from a New Historical Database IFN Working Paper No. 1315. With Erik Lindgren, Per Pettersson-Lidbom
Political Power, Resistance to Technological Change and Economic Development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden. IFN Working Paper No. 1172. With Per Pettersson-Lidbom och Erik Lindgren
Restricting Residence Permits- Short-Run Evidence from a Swedish Reform. With Niklas Blomqvist och Peter Skogman Thoursie.
Gender Quotas in the Board Room and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Credible Threat in Sweden. IFN Working Paper No.1165. With Joakim Jansson
Do Mild Sentences Deter Crime? Evidence using a Regression-Discontinuity Design. With Mikael Priks och Per Pettersson-Lidbom.
Age-Dependent Sentences and Crime Bunching – Empirical Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data. IFN Working Paper No. 1163. With Mikael Priks och Mårten Palme.
Selected Work in Progress
Crime and culture. With Per Pettersson-Lidbom och Mikael Priks.
Development and Local Finance. With Andreas Madestam. Joel Gunnarsson, Erik Lindgren och Per Pettersson-Lidbom .
Testing Efficiency of Private versus Public Providers. With Daniel Knutsson.
The Causal Effect of Tracking on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes. With Dany Kessel och Andreas Madestam
IFN Newsletter
Extended right to vote kick-started the economic development in Sweden. IFN Newsletter 2-2017.