PUBLICATIONS
“Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search and Efficiency”
with Jonas Cederlöf, Peter Fredriksson and Arash Nekoei,
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140(1): 585-633, 2025..
“Intergenerational Transmission of Luck versus Effort Beliefs”
with Manja Gärtner and Johanna Mollerstrom.
Economics Letters, 232: 111345, 2023.
“Bounds on a Slope from Size Restrictions on Economic Shocks”
with Marco Stenborg Pettersson and Jesse Shapiro.
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 15(3): 552-572, 2023.
Python package.
"How Do Inheritances Shape Wealth Inequality? Theory and Evidence from Sweden"
with Arash Nekoei
Review of Economic Studies, 90(1): 463-498, 2023.
Blog summary in Swedish, Slides.
“Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence”
with Santiago Hermo, Miika Päällysaho and Jesse Shapiro
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(4): 2309-2361, 2022.
LaroplanOCR repository
“Hysteresis from Employer Subsidies”
with Emmanuel Saez and Benjamin Schoefer
Journal of Public Economics, 2021.
"Risk-based Selection in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence and Implications"
with C. Landais, A. Nekoei, P. Nilsson and J. Spinnewijn
American Economic Review, 111(4): 1315-1355, 2021.
Slides.
"On the Incidence and Effects of Job Displacement: Evidence from Sweden"
Labour Economics, 57: 131-145, 2019.
"Payroll Taxes, Firm Behavior, and Rent Sharing: Evidence from a Young Workers' Tax Cut in Sweden"
with Emmanuel Saez and Benjamin Schoefer
American Economic Review, 109(5): 1717-1763, 2019,
Slides, VoxEU column: The effects of employer payroll tax cuts on employment, business activity and wages,
Policy report in Swedish: Sänkta arbetsgivaravgifter för unga, SNS Analys, nr 55.
"Individual Risk Preferences and the Demand for Redistribution"
with Manja Gärtner and Johanna Mollerstrom
Journal of Public Economics, 153: 49-55, 2017.
"Behavioral Responses to an Annual Wealth Tax: Evidence from Sweden"
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9(4): 395-421, 2017
AEJ-Policy summary.
"Richer (and Holier) Than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution"
with Johanna Mollerstrom and Mounir Karadja
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 99(2): 201-212, 2017
Featured in: SvD, DI, DN, Forskning & Framsteg and Marginal Revolution.
"Strategic Complementarities, Network Games and Endogenous Network Formation"
with Andreas Nordvall Lagerås
International Journal of Game Theory, 45: 497-509, 2016.
"Political Selection in China: the Complementary Roles of Connections and Performance"
with Ruixue Jia and Masa Kudamatsu
Journal of the European Economic Association, 13(4): 631-668, 2015
VoxEU column: Who becomes a top politician in China?.
"The Demand for Redistribution and Cognitive Ability"
with Johanna Mollerstrom
PLoS ONE, 9(10): e109955, 2014.
"Essays on Public, Political and Labor Economics"
IIES Monograph Series, vol 82.