Björn Öckert

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Björn Öckert took his PhD at The Swedish institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University in 2001, and has since then worked as a researcher at IFAU. His main areas of research are economics of education and labor economics, and he has worked on issues concerning returns to schooling, school resources, age at school start, intergenerational transmission of skills, reduced childcare fees, payroll tax reductions and contracting-out of public employment services. Björn Öckert is Adjunct Professor at Uppsala university since 2016.

His research has been published in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics and Labour Economics.

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