Publications

The SOFI Working Papers in Labour Economics series publishes preliminary research by researchers at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. The purpose of the series is to make research available prior to further review and final publication.

The series is part of the Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics (S-WoPEc).

The most recent Working Papers [S-WoPEc]

Recent working papers in labour economics from SOFI:

2026

11/2026: Stella Canessa, Gordon Dahl, Anna Hasselqvist, Costas Meghir, Susan Niknami, et al. Life After Divorce: Effects of Joint Custody on Parents and Children

10/2026: Eva Mörk, Lillit Ottosson and Ulrika Vikman. Employment Effects and Fiscal Spillovers of a Public Sector Employment Program

9/2026: Lina Aldén and Anne Boschini. Parenting Skills and Selection into Fatherhood

8/2026: Lina Aldén, Anne Boschini and Malin Tallås Ahlzén. Fathers but not caregivers

7/2026: Manuel Bagues, Milan Makany, Giulia Vattuone and Natalia Zinovyeva. Female Promotions and the Academic Pipeline: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

6/2026: Samuel Berlinski, Michele Giannola and Alessandro Toppeta. Effective Families or Effective Schools? Experimental Evidence on Fostering Children’s Numeracy

5/2026: Olle Folke, Torbjørn Hanson, Åshild Johnsen, Andreas Kotsadam and Johanna Rickne. Targeting Attitudes to Combat Sexual Harassment: A Randomized Intervention in the Norwegian Military

4/2026: Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne. The seniority ceiling: Why some immigrants struggle to rise in political office

3/2026: Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne. Misunderstandings of the Child Penalty Graph

2/2026: Chloe Nibourel. Necessary or Optional? Gender and Coalition Strategies in French Municipal Elections

1/2026: Meng Meng. Sectoral Shocks and Gendered Responses in Higher Education: Evidence from the Dot-Com Collapse

2025

13/2025: Gabriel Rodríguez-Puello and Orsa Kekezi. Local Economic Shocks and Entrepreneurship Dynamics

12/2025: Edvin Hertegård. The Effects of Fluoride Exposure on Child Development: Evidence from a Water Fluoridation Experiment

11/2025: Julien Grenet, Hans Grönqvist, Edvin Hertegård, Martin Nybom and Jan Stuhler. How Early Career Choices Adjust to Economic Crises

10/2025: Pierre Deschamps, Dylan Glover, Xavier Lambin, Morgane Laouénan and Guillaume Chapelle. Safety First: Gender Differences in Screening on an Online Platform

9/2025: Ariel R. White, Marie-Pascale Grimon, Rebecca Goldstein and Kelley Fong. Child Welfare System Contact and Voting

8/2025: Patricio Dominguez and Leopoldo Lazcano. The Effects of Pretrial Detention on Sentencing Outcomes

7/2025: Magnus Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson and Dan-Olof Rooth. Employers' Language Proficiency Requirements and Hiring of Immigrants

6/2025: Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne. Sexual Harassment across Occupations: New Evidence from Swedish Nationally Representative Data

5/2025: Nicholas Bloom, Gordon B. Dahl and Dan-Olof Rooth. Work from Home and Disability Employment

4/2025: Matthew J. Lindquist and Theodor Vladasel. Are Entrepreneurs More Upwardly Mobile?

3/2025: Edvin Hertegård. The Rising Educational Penalties of Parental Divorce Across Generations

2/2025: Marie-Pascale Grimon and Christopher Mills. Better Together? A Field Experiment on Human-Algorithm Interaction in Child Protection

1/2025: Edvin Hertegård. Divorce Law Reform, Family Stability, and Children’s Long-Term Outcomes

2024

6/2024: Kirk Bansak and Linna Martén. Algorithmic Decision-Making, Fairness, and the Distribution of Impact: Application to Refugee Matching

5/2024: Tianze Liu and Meng Meng. You Are the Elite Now: Admission Effects of an Excellence Initiative in the Chinese Higher Education System

4/2024: Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert and J. Lucas Tilley. Parental and School Responses to Student Performance: Evidence from School Entry Rules

3/2024: Meng Meng. The Gender Wealth Gap in China

2/2024: Steven Lehrer, Louis-Pierre Lepage and Nuno Sousa Pereira. Breaking Barriers: The Impact of Employer Exposure to Immigrants

1/2024: Anders Stenberg and Simona Tudor. Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood

The former SOFI Working Paper series was published until 2023.

Working Papers from the former series are available in the [S-WoPEc archice]

Below you find a list of dissertations from researchers employed at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI). Doctoral students at SOFI are always enrolled at either the Department of Sociology or the Department of Economics at Stockholm University.

2026

• Meng Meng (2026): Education Choices and Family Outcomes: Effects of Economic and Policy Shocks. (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).

2025

• Edvin Syk (2025): Quantifying (Ine)quality: Job Quality over Half a Century in Sweden and Europe. (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
• Amanda Almstedt Valldor (2025): Essays on the Links Between Vertical and Horizontal Social Stratification, Political Attitudes, and Radical Right Support: Evidence From Sweden and Europe. (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
• Xiaojie Xu (2025): Education, Inequality, and Labor Market Outcomes: Patterns and Trends in Educational and Socioeconomic Transformations. (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
• Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch (2025): Promising Sameness? Lesbian couples in Sweden at the Transition to Motherhood. (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
• Tünde Lénárd (2025): Gendered Processes in Education – Exploring Early Sources of Differing Educational Trajectories. (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
• Allison Geerts (2025): Building the Family You Want – Lesbian Couples and Roads to Parenthood. (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
• Christine Alamaa (2025): Belief Exposure and Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Feedback Social Evaluation, and Gender in Health Attitudes and Labor Market Outcomes. (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).

2023

• Doctrinal, L. (2023). Old and Unequal?: An Institutional Analysis of Pension Systems' Driving Forces and Outcomes in Affluent OECD Countries (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
  
• Forslund, M (2023) From the cradle to the grave  - in sickness and in health?: The welfare state and health outcomes (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
  
• Palmtag, E. (2023). Breaking down break-ups: Studies on the heterogeneity in (adult) children’s outcomes following a parental separation (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
  
• Sirén, S. (2022). Social Policy in Development Contexts : Drivers, Mechanisms and Outcomes (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
  

2022

• Kahlmeter, A. (2022). Stressful life events and risks for social exclusion in the youth-to-adulthood transition : Findings from Swedish longitudinal data (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University)
  
• Tallås Ahlzén, M. (2022). Essays in Swedish Family Policy (PhD dissertation, Department of Economics, Stockholm University).
  
• Dadgar, I. (2022). Essays on the economics of education and health (PhD dissertation, Department of Economics, Stockholm University).
  
• Erlandsson, A. (2022). Gender, Parenthood, Ethnicity and Discrimination in the Labor Market : Experimental Studies on Discrimination in Recruitment in Sweden (PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University).
  

2021

• Hjalmarsson, S. (2021). Taking Part on Equal Terms? : Associations between Economic Resources and Social Participation among Swedish Adolescents (PhD dissertation). Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
  

2020

• Westerman, J. (2020). Motives matter : Intrinsic motivation in work learning and labor market performance (PhD dissertation). Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm.
  

2019

• Boström, C. (2019). Education, skills and gender : The impact of a grading reform and the business cycle on labor market outcomes (PhD dissertation). Department of Economics, Stockholm University, Stockholm.
  
• Andersson, L. (2019). Essays on Family Dynamics : Partnering, Fertility and Divorce in Sweden (PhD dissertation). Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-164767
  
• Fredriksson, D. (2019). Enabling employment? : Drivers and outcomes of active labour market policies in comparative perspective (PhD dissertation). Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm.
  

2018

• Kjellsson, S. (2018). Sick of Work? : Questions of Class, Gender and Self-Rated Health (PhD dissertation). Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm.
• Shahbazian, R. (2018). Sibling Configuration and Adulthood Outcomes : The Case of Two-Child Families (PhD dissertation). Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm.
  

Dissertations presented during the years 1986–2017 are listed here:

SOFI doctoral dissertations: Archive

Doctoral dissertations presented at SOFI have been registered in the DiVA register since 2004. The register provides access to nail sheets, and sometimes also the entire dissertation text, in pdf format.

A list of licentiate dissertations submitted to SOFI can be found here:

SOFI licentiate dissertations: Archive