Working papers
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2023:7
Mortality, morbidity, and occupational decline
Sofia Hernnäs
Does the long-term economic stress of occupational decline cause health problems, or even death? This paper explores this question using Swedish administrative data, and a measure of occupationa...
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2023:6
The labor market impact of a taxi driver’s license
Mounir Karadja Anton Sundberg
We study the economic impact of becoming a taxi driver. Comparing individuals who pass the necessary written exams for a taxi driver’s license to individuals who have not yet done so, we f...
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2023:5
Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic indices
Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent...
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2023:4
Gender-targeted transfers by default? Evidence from a child allowance reform in Sweden
We exploit a sharp birthday discontinuity in a large and universal Swedish cash transfer program, creating plausibly exogenous variation in the default disbursement option, while holding entitle...
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2023:3
Teaching, technology and test scores -The impact of personal computers on student performance in primary school
The closing of schools and shift to remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technology in education. Many scho...
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2023:2
Automation when skills are bundled
Sofia Hernnäs
Automation affects workers because it affects the return to their skills when performing different tasks. I propose a general equilibrium model of occupational choice and technological change wh...
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2023:1
Dispersion over the business cycle: passthrough, productivity and demand?
Mikael Carlsson Alex Clymo Knut-Eric Joslin
We characterize the dispersion of firm-level productivity and demand shocks over the business cycle using Swedish microdata including prices and analyse the consequences for firms and the aggreg...
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2022:22
Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? – Evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden
Using administrative data from Sweden, I study an internationally unique parental leave policy that rewarded parents with a financial bonus as a function of their division of paid parental leave...
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2022:21
A lifecycle estimator of intergenerational income mobility
The estimation of intergenerational mobility ideally requires full income histories to determine lifetime incomes. However, as applications are typically based on shorter snapshots, estimates ar...
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2022:20
Earnings losses and the role of the welfare state during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Sweden
Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and p...
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