I am a professor of Economics at SOFI, Stockholm University. My research interests include labor economics, currently with a special focus on disability (study 6, 7 and 9) and public meals (study 1 and 10).  I also study discrimination, health economics and economics of education.

Newly published or accepted studies

1. Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform (co-authored with Petter Lundborg and Jesper Alex-Petersen), Review of Economic Studies (2022), 89(2): 876-908. See also Microeconomic Insights, CESifo Forum and voxEU for summaries.

2. Does integration change gender attitudes? The effect of randomly assigning women to traditionally male teams. (co-authored with Gordon Dahl and Andreas Kotsadam, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2021), 136(2): 987-1030. See also Microeconomic Insights, The World Financial Review and voxEU for summaries.

3. High School Majors and Future Earnings (co-authored with Gordon Dahl and Anders Stenberg). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2023), 15(1): 351-382. See voxEU for a summary.

4. Family Spillovers in Field of Study in High School (co-authored with Gordon Dahl and Anders Stenberg). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2024), 16(3): 133-173. See NBER WP#27618.

5. Weight, Attractiveness and Gender when hiring: A Field Experiment in Spain (co-authored with Catarina Goulão, Juan Antonio Lacomba and Francisco Lagos). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2024), 218: 132-145.

6. Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination - A Field Experiment (co-authored with Vegar Björnshagen and Elisabeth Ugreninov). forthcoming in European Societies.

7. Work from Home and Disability Employment (co-authored with Nick Bloom and Gordon Dahl). forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insight, see NBER WP#32943.

8. Language Proficiency and Hiring of Immigrants: Evidence from a New Field Experimental Approach (co-authored with Magnus Carlsson and Stefan Eriksson). forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources. See IZA Discussion Papers

Work in Progress

9. Long-term effects of special needs education (co-authored with Petter Lundborg, Magnus Tideman and Jan Bietenbeck)

10. School breakfast and its effect on students school performance (co-authored with Petter Lundborg and Simon Froster Delbom)

11. Schooling and Non-cognitive skills (co-authored with Magnus Carlsson, Björn Öckert and Alessandro Toppeta)