JOHANNA RICKNE
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Grevgatan 34, 102 15 Stockholm
Email: Johanna.rickne@ifn.se
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Columbia University, SIPA Lecturer 06/2013 – Present
RIIE (IFN) Research Fellow 01/2011 – Present
Uppsala University UCLS Affiliated Researcher 02/2011 – Present
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labor Economics, Economics of Gender, International Economics with Special Focus on East Asia.
EDUCATION
DEGREES FROM UPPSALA UNIVERSITY Uppsala, Sweden
Ph.D. of Social Science (Economics) 2011
Licentiate of Social Science (Economics) 2009
Master of Social Science (Economics) 2006
Bachelor of Social Science (Political Science) 2005
WASEDA UNIVERSITY Tokyo, Japan
One-year program in Japanese language and political science 08/2002-07/2003
FUDAN UNIVERSITY Shanghai, China
Summer student in economics and political science 07/2003
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Barcelona, Spain
One-year program in Spanish language and cultural studies 08/2000-06/2001
PUBLICATIONS
Rickne, J. (forthcoming) Labor market conditions and social insurance in urban China, China Economic Review.
Lyhagen, J. and Rickne, J. (forthcoming) Income inequality between Chinese regions: Newfound harmony or continued discord?, Empirical Economics.
Rickne, J. (2013) Firm size and work compensation in China, China & World Economy
Ornstein, P. and Rickne, J. (2013) When does intimate partner violence continue after separation? Violence Against Women.
58(2), 307-354.
Rickne, J. (2011) Essays in Development, Institutions and Gender. Economic Studies 126, Department of Economics, Uppsala University [PhD. Thesis].
WORKING PAPERS
Rickne, J. and Folke O. “Female representation but male rule? Elite entrenchment, gender quotas and the political glass ceiling” Uppsala UCLS Working Paper 2012:9
(http://ucls.nek.uu.se/digitalAssets/110/110736_wp20129ucls.pdf)
Rickne, J. “Oil Prices and Real Exchange Rate Volatility in Oil-Exporting Economies: The Role of Governance. IFN Working Paper 2009:810 (http://www.ifn.se/publikationer/working_papers/2009/810_1)
BOOKS, CHAPTERS, AND PUBLICATIONS IN SWEDISH
Folke, O. and Rickne, J. (2013) Kvinnotricket och konkurrenskraften (How women can do the trick for Europe’s competitiveness), in Bakardjieva–Engelbrekt, A, Oxelheim, L och Persson, T, (red), Ett konkurrenskraftigt EU till rätt pris - Europaperspektiv 2013, Santérus Förlag, 2013.
Folke, O. and Rickne, J. (2012) Personkryss och politiska karriärer. SNS Analys Nr 4.
von Essen, E. och Rickne, J. (2012) Ekonomer som hatar kvinnor? Bokanmälan Ekonomisk Debatt. Linderyd, A., Ardin, A. and Rickne, J. (2012) Välfärd bortom staten och kapitalet. Stockholm: Sektor3. Folke, O. and Rickne, J. (2012) Kvinnor i politiken och män vid makten? Ekonomisk Debatt nr. 1. Rickne, J. (2011) Kina: nygammal supermakt eller nymaoistisk maktillusion? Bokanmälan Ekonomisk Debatt nr. 8.
Rickne, J. (2009) Kan vetopunkter förklara välfärdsreformer? (Can veto points explain reform intensity of the welfare state?), in Santesson-Wilson P. and Erlingsson. G. (red.): Reform – Tröghet och förändring i välfärdsstaterna, Stockholm: Nordstedts.
Rickne, J. and Adermon, M. (2009) Hurinleder ’man’ en forskarkarriär i Nationalekonomi? (How do men and women initiate research careers in Economics). Genus- och hbt-granskningar, Uppsala: Uppsala University Press.
RESEARCH PAPERS IN PROGRESS
“Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man: Theory and evidence from Sweden”, with Tim Besley (LSE), Olle Folke (Columbia University), & Torsten Persson (Stockholm University, IIES).
“Preferential voting and the selection of party leaders: Evidence from Sweden” with Olle Folke (Columbia University) and Torsten Persson (Stockholm University, IIES)
“Firm Ownership and Social Insurance Inequality in Transitional China: Evidence from a Large Panel of Firms”, with Qin Gao (Fordham University)
“Gender quotas and minority representation”, with Olle Folke (Columbia University) & Lenita Freidenvall (Swedish Parliament and Stockholm University)
DEBATE PIECES, POPULAR WRITING AND TELEVIZED POPULAR TALKS
konkurrenskraften” (How women can do the trick for Europe’s competitiveness), 6 February, 2012. SVT Forum.
Statistics Sweden’s yearly meeting for democratic studies: “Kvotering i kommunfullmäktige ” (gender quotas in Swedish municipal politics), 8 October 2012. SVT Forum.
SNS Center for Business and Policy Studies: ”Personröster och politiska karriärer” (Preferential voting and political careers), 17 September 2012, SVT Forum
“Personkrysset väger tungt i det politiska maktspelet” DN Debatt, 16 September 2012.
”Det behövs verklig mångfald i välfärden” (How do we realize the goal of plurality among welfare providers), SvD Brännpunkt, 4 May 2012.
“Falsklarm om dyrköpt könskvotering”, Ekonomistas Blog, 30 April 2012.
“Med Kinesiska förtecken” (Civil Society with Chinese characteristics) Tidsskriften Kurage, nr. 1., 2012. “Varannan Damernas med herrar som för” (Male control of politics despite zipper gender quotas), Expressen Debatt Sidan 4, 3 April 2012.
"Lobbyister bör redovisas öppet" (We need to record lobbyists), SvD Brännpunkt, 14 August 2010, (with Olle Folke)
”Ökad risk för politisk oro i Kina” (Political risk in China), SvD Brännpunkt, 2 October 2009 (with Fredrik Sjöholm).
“Kris i Kina ett verkligt miljöhot” (A Chinese crisis is an environmental threat), Västerbottenskuriren, 27 August 2009 (with Fredrik Sjöholm).
”Kinas ekonomiska politik hotar klimatet” (China’s economic policies a climate threat), Norran, 14 August 2009 (with Fredrik Sjöholm).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
(current) Head Instructor. Quantitative Analysis for International and Public Affairs, 5 credits, SIPA Columbia University
Head Instructor. Capstone Workshop (Master’s Project for six students during one semester with UN Women as the client, 3 credits), spring 2013, SIPA Columbia University.
TA in Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, fall 2007 and spring 2008, Uppsala University. Supervisor of BA thesis, Minor Field Studies (MFS) “The Impact of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on Poverty Reduction in Zambia” by Frida Wallin, spring 2008.
Supervisor of Masters’ thesis, “Market reform and the education premium in China’s industrial sector” by Kristina Börjesson, spring 2010.
Supervisor of BA thesis, “Do increased exports raise the number of employees in industrial firms? A case study of China’s entrance into the WTO” by Frida Wärvik, spring 2011.
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
5 week course: Pedagogy for University Teachers.
PRESENTATIONS
2013 Columbia University, Department of Political Science
Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association, Gothenburg CEPR Public Policy Symposium, Lugano.
Gothenburg University, Department of Political Science Workshop on Fiscal Federalism, Barcelona University Columbia University, Political Economy Breakfast Seminar Uppsala University, Department of Political Science Midwestern Political Science Association, MPSA
Uppsala University, Workshop on Gender and Political Recruitment 2012 European Association for Labor Economists, IZA Bonn
Manchester University, Department of Economics PUC-Rio, Department of Economics
Gothenburg University, Department of Political Science Norwegian Business School, Workshop on Political Economics Stockholm University, Workshop on Gender Quota Studies
National conference for Swedish economists, Stockholm University American Political Science Association, APSA
Statistics Sweden, Workshop on democracy issues Gothenburg University, Department of Political Science Lund University, joint Economics and Political Science seminar The 14th Annual SNEE European Integration Conference, Sweden Manchester University Department of Economics
Midwestern Political Science Association, MPSA Public Choice Society Annual Meeting.
Uppsala Center for Labor Studies Annual Research Workshop Department of Political Science, Uppsala University
2011 SOFI, Stockholm University
Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington DC (discussant) Stockholm School of Economics, CERC, Sweden.
National Conference for Swedish Economists, Uppsala University, Sweden. Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe), University College Dublin, Ireland. International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), Hanzhou, China. RATIO Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Research Institute for Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden. The 13th Annual SNEE European Integration Conference, Mölle, Sweden Workshop on electoral gender quotas, Washington University, St. Louis, USA. Eastern Economic Association 37th Annual Conference, New York City. 2010 Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe), Oxford University, UK.
Department of Economics Seminar, Örebro University, Sweden. Uppsala University Seminar Series in Labor Economics.
The 12th Annual SNEE European Integration Conference, Mölle, Sweden
Arbetarrörelsens forskarnätverks konferens 2010, Jämlikhet och Ojämlikhet (in Swedish). 2009 Labor 2009, Xiamen University.
Ph.D. Workshop “Gender at the interface of the global and the local”, Fudan University. Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (Micro) Data (CAED), Tokyo, Japan.
Uppsala University Seminar Series in Labor Economics.
Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, NY, (discussant) Workshop on Market Structure, Ownership and Firm Performance in
East Asia. RIIE Stockholm (discussant)
2008 Uppsala University Seminar Series in Macroeconomics.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
RATIO RESEARCH INSTITUTE Stockholm, Sweden
Project affiliated researcher (part-time) 06/2008-08/2008 SWEDISH DELEGATION TO THE OECD Paris, France
SWEDISH MINISTRY OF FINANCE Stockholm, Sweden Desk officer, International Division 01/2006-08/2006 MUNICIPALIDAD DE CORDOBA/CITY OF CORDOBA Cordoba, Mexico
Project manager 06/2003-08/2003
RESEARCH VISITS
PUC-Rio Visiting Researcher 11/2012-12/2012 Columbia University Visiting Researcher 02/2012-04/2012 Columbia University Visiting Researcher 09/2011-11/2011 Columbia University Visiting Researcher 02/2011-04/2011 Beijing University Visiting Ph.D. Student 09/2009-01/2010 Columbia University Visiting Ph.D. Student 01/2009-07/2009
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS) Best Paper Price 2013 for " Firm Ownership and Social insurance Inequality in Transitional China: Evidence from a Large Panel of Firm Data", with Qin Gao.
Vetenskapsrådet (National Research Council), Three year project grant, jan 2013-dec 2015.
Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation full scholarship for one semester of doctoral studies abroad, spring 2008.
The Scandinavia – Japan SASAKAWA Foundation full scholarship for university studies in Japan 2002-2003. Uppsala University, Kalmar student association award for best undergraduate academic record, 2006.
OTHER
Date of birth: 2 Aug 1980 Citizenship: Swedish
Languages: Swedish, English, Spanish, Japanese (Intermediate), Basic Chinese (mandarin), Basic French
REFERENCES
Professor Bertil Holmlund Professor Johan Lyhagen Professor Fredrik Sjöholm Department of Economics, Department of Statistics, Department of Economics Uppsala University P.O. Box 513, Uppsala University P.O. Box 513, Lund University, P.O. Box 7082 SE‐751 20 Uppsala, Sweden SE‐751 20 Uppsala, Sweden SE-220 07 Lund, Sweden Phone: +46‐18‐471 11 22 Phone: +46‐18‐471 28 44 Phone: +46-462-222 74 26
