Working papers
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2024:9
Professional networks and the labour market assimilation of immigrants
We study how professional networks are related to immigrant labour market integration. Matched employer-employee data for Sweden show that networks grow with time in the host country and that th...
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2024:8
Optimal redistribution and education signaling
This paper studies optimal taxation of income and education when employers cannot observe workers’ productivity and workers signal their productivity to firms by choosing both quantity and...
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2024:7
Household specialization and competition for promotion
We study how the presence of promotion competition in the labor market affects household specialization patterns. By embedding a promotion tournament model in a household setting, we show that s...
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2024:6
The Boost for reading
We evaluate the “Boost for Reading”, an in-service training program for teachers aimed at improving the teaching of literacy and boosting students’ reading and writing proficie...
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2024:5
Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden
Daniel Knutsson Björn Tyrefors
We evaluate a non-targeted summer youth employment program (SYEP) for high school students aged 16-19 in Stockholm, Sweden, where public sector job offers were as good as randomly assigned. In c...
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2024:4
Health shocks, risk preferences and annuity choices
Johannes Hagen Michal Hodor Abigail Hurwitz
This study examines the simultaneous impact of risk type and risk preferences on annuity demand. Through a quasi-experimental design that leverages individuals’ reactions to their first ma...
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2024:3
Origin country institutions and immigrant retirement timing
Olof Åslund Axel Cronert
We study how immigrants’ retirement expectations and behavior are affected by formal retirement institutions in their country of origin. The analysis combines newly collected world-wide ge...
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2024:2
Reconsidering the cost of job loss
This paper studies the consequences of job loss. While previous literature has relied on mass layoffs and plant closures for identification, I exploit discontinuities in the likelihood of displa...
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2024:1
Can model averaging improve propensity score based estimation of average treatment effects
Shaobo Jin Valentin Zulj
When drawing causal inferences from observational data, researchers often model the propensity score. To date, the literature on the estimation of propensity scores is vast, and includes covaria...
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2023:25
Paternity leave and child outcomes
We study how fathers’ time impacts children’s human capital using the introduction of earmarked paternity leave in Sweden. We use administrative data on parents’ leave uptake a...
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