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Men face a greater risk of ethnic discrimination in the labour market

Men with foreign-sounding names applying for a job receive significantly fewer responses to their applications than female applicants with a foreign-sounding name.

New dissertation in sociology

Why do girls opt out of math in school?

In school, girls in general outperform boys in math-related fields. But even when girls have a relatively higher ability in math, they more often choose other education trajectories.

New study from Swedish Institute for Social Research

Mental health problems in school linked to greater risk of exclusion from society

Teenagers that experience mental health problems during secondary school are less likely to be in employment or in education as young adults, compared to those with few symptoms, a new study show.

Different risks for males and females

More news from SOFI

PhD dissertation: Anni Erlandsson defends her thesis 2022-03-18
AME Labour Economics Seminar series: Winter/spring of 2022 2022-01-18
SWS seminar series: Winter and spring 2022 line-up 2022-01-12
Would you like to be a Wallander scholarship holder at SOFI? 2021-12-16
The Assar Lindbeck Medal is awarded to Professor Erik Lindqvist 2021-12-15

SOFI researchers in the media

PODCAST: Matthew Lindquist, professor of economics at SOFI, discusses his new research on the health effects of prison, in the latest episode of the Probable Causation podcast.
"Economists: We need to track the virus". Erik Lindqvist, professor of economics at SOFI, has together with five other economists published a debate article at SvD Debatt (in Swedish).
Johannna Rickne and Olle Folke at SOFI have together with American and Japanese researchers published a study showing that women are exposed to sexual harassment at work even when they are in leadership positions, which got attention in both Swedish media such as SvD, DN and Aftonbladet, as well as international media like CBS News and The Independent.
The new SOFI study showing a dramatic increase of the risk of ending up in poverty for single persons without children has been noticed in several news media, among others Swedish Radio Vetenskapsradion, Göteborgs-Posten and TT Nyhetsbyrån.
"A woman who earns less than her partner or doesn’t work at all when they get married is significantly more likely to get divorced if her career suddenly takes off". The Quartz magazine writes about a study by our professor Johanna Rickne and Olle Folke at Uppsala University. Read the article here.

Recent publications

Diemer, A., & Regan, T. (2022). No inventor is an island: Social connectedness and the geography of knowledge flows in the US. Research Policy, 51(2), 104416.
Eskil Wadensjö, “Sweden (Supplementary) Pensions”, Chapter 15 (pp. 305–319) in The Evolution of Supplementary Pensions. 25 Years of Pension Reform, James Kolaczkowski, Michelle Maher, Yves Stevens, and Jakob Markus Werbrouck (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, ISBN: 978 1 80037 297 9, 488 pages.
Dehdari, Sirus H., and Kai Gehring. 2022. "The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14 (1): 261-92.
Shahbazian, R. and Bihagen, E. (2022). Does Your Class Give More than a Hint of Your Lifetime Earnings?: Assessing Indicators for Lifetime Earnings Over the Life Course for Sweden. European Sociological Review
Grätz, M. When less conditioning provides better estimates: overcontrol and endogenous selection biases in research on intergenerational mobility. Qual Quant (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01310-8
Michael Grätz, Does Increasing the Minimum School-Leaving Age Affect the Intergenerational Transmission of Education? Evidence from Four European Countries, European Sociological Review, 2021;

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