Björn Öckert
Professor
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 universitet since 2016.
His research has been published in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics and Labour Economics.
Research areas
Projects and publications at IFAU
Report
2021
- Barn och unga under coronapandemin
- Försvarsnedläggningar efter det kalla krigets slut. Ekonomiska effekter för de drabbade anställda
- Lyfter Matematiklyftet matematikkunskaperna?
2020
- Jämlikhet i möjligheter och utfall i den svenska skolan
- Hur påverkas ungdomars utbildningsval av ett bättre resultat på högskoleprovet?
2018
2016
2015
2014
2012
2010
- Den svenska utbildningspolitikens arbetsmarknadseffekter: vad säger forskningen?
- Hur överförs förmågor mellan generationer?
2009
2008
2007
- Maxtaxan inom barnomsorgen - påverkar den hur mycket föräldrar arbetar?
- Hur mycket påverkas studieresultat av resurser?
2006
2002
Working papers
2021
- Who recovers from a job loss? The importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills
- Swedish children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Does the ‘Boost for Mathematics’ Boost Mathematics?
2020
2018
2016
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Born to lead? The effect of birth order on non-cognitive abilities
Review of Economics and Statistics, may 2018, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 274-286
2015
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Parental responses to public investments in children: evidence from a maximum class size rule
Journal of Human Resources, 2016, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 832-868
2012
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Long-term effects of class size
The Quarterly Journal of Economics , 2013, vol. 128, no.1, pp. 249-285
2010
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities
The Journal of Human Resources, 2017, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 887-918
2009
2008
2007
- Do reduced child care prices make parents work more?
- Resources and student achievement - evidence from a Swedish policy reform