October 6, 2015
Curriculum vitae
Name: Peter Nils Johan Fredriksson Home address: Pimpstensvägen 38
SE-752 67 Uppsala Sweden
Year of birth: 1967 Citizenship: Swedish
Marital status: Married, two children
Language skills: Swedish (native), English (excellent), German (good).
Education
• Qualified for Professorship, August 2006.
• Associate Professor (Docent), Uppsala University, September 2001. • Ph.D. (Fil.dr.), Uppsala University, April 1997.
• Ph.L. (Fil.lic.), Uppsala University, October 1994. • B.A. (Fil.kand.), Uppsala University, December 1992. Present positions
• Professor, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2010--.
• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (class for social sciences) 2015-- • Editor, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013--.
• Associate Editor, Economic Journal, 2013--.
• Board Member: Swedish Council for Health, Working Life and Social Research (Forte), 2013--.
• Council Member: Council for Research Infrastructures, Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2015--
• EALE executive committee, 2013--. • IZA Research Fellow, 2003--. • CESifo Research Fellow, 2002--. Previous positions
• Director-General, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala, 2006--2010.
• Professor, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2007--2010. • Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for International Economic Studies,
Stockholm University, fall 2005.
• Associate Professor (Lektor), Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2003— 2007.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2000--2004. • Research Associate, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala,
1999--2005.
• Research Associate, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1997-1999. • Research Associate, Trade Union Institute for Economic Research (FIEF),
Stockholm, 1997.
• Visiting researcher, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, London, fall 1995. • Research assistant, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1992-1993.
Most cited work (ISI)
1. Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118, 329–357, 2003. (with Per-Anders Edin and Olof Åslund)
2. Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations using
Observational Data, Journal of Business & Economics Statistics, 26, 2008, 435–445. (with Per Johansson)
3. LINDA – Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden, Working Paper 2000:19, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. (with Per-Anders Edin).
4. The Market comes to Education – An Evaluation of Sweden’s Surprising School Reforms, Russell Sage Foundation, 2005. (with Anders Björklund, Melissa Clark, Per-Anders Edin, and Alan Krueger)
5. Optimal Unemployment Insurance in Search Equilibrium”, Journal of Labor Economics 19, 370–399, 2001. (with Bertil Holmlund)
Most cited work (Google scholar)
1. Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118, 329–357, 2003. (with Per-Anders Edin and Olof Åslund) (506 citations)
2. The Market comes to Education – An Evaluation of Sweden’s Surprising School Reforms, Russell Sage Foundation, 2005. (with Anders Björklund, Melissa Clark, Per-Anders Edin, and Alan Krueger) (244 citations)
3. “Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research”,
Journal of Economic Surveys, 20, 375–386, 2006. (with Bertil Holmlund) (242 citations)
4. LINDA – Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden, Working Paper 2000:19, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. (with Per-Anders Edin) (239 citations)
5. Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations using
Observational Data, Journal of Business & Economics Statistics, 26, 2008, 435–445. (with Per Johansson) (229 citations)
Publications
Articles in international journals
J1. “Economic Incentives and the Demand for Higher Education”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 99(1), 129–142, 1997.
J2. “The Political Economy of Public Employment Programs”, Journal of Public Economics 72, 487–504, 1999.
J3. “The Dynamics of Regional Labor Markets and Active Labor Market Policy: Swedish Evidence”, Oxford Economic Papers 51, 623–648, 1999.
J4. “Comment on Erik Mellander and Per Skedinger, ‘Corporate Job Ladders in Europe: Wage Premia for University versus High-school Positions’”, Swedish Economic Policy Review 6, 489–496, 1999.
J5. “Optimal Unemployment Insurance in Search Equilibrium”, Journal of Labor Economics 19(2), 370–399, 2001. (with Bertil Holmlund)
J6. “Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, 329–357, 2003. (with Per-Anders Edin and Olof Åslund)
J7. ”Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants”, Journal of Population Economics 17, 133–155, 2004. (with Per-Anders Edin and Olof Åslund) J8. “Comment on Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Erik Ø. Sørensen, ‘The Impact of a Primary School Reform on Social Stratification: A Norwegian Study of Neighbor and School Mate Correlations’”, Swedish Economic Policy Review 10, 171–177, 2003.
J9. “The Effect of Trade on Earnings − Evidence from Swedish Micro Data”, Oxford Economic Papers 56, 231–241, 2004. (with Per-Anders Edin and Per Lundborg)
J10. “Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research”,
Journal of Economic Surveys, 20, 375–386, 2006. (with Bertil Holmlund) J11. “Optimal Unemployment Insurance Design: Time limits, Monitoring, or
Workfare?”, International Tax and Public Finance, 13(5), 565–585, 2006. (with Bertil Holmlund)
J12. ”Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions”, Economic Journal, 399–421, 2007.(with Jan Boone, Bertil Holmlund, and Jan van Ours) J13. “Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations using Observational Data”, Journal of Business & Economics Statistics, 26(4), 2008, 435–445. (with Per Johansson)
J14. “Resources and Student Achievement – Evidence from a Swedish Policy Reform”,
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 110, 277–296, 2008. (with Björn Öckert) J15. “Comment on Mike Brewer ‘Welfare Reform in the UK: 1997-2007’”, Swedish Economic Policy Review, 123–136, 2008.
J16. “Peer Effects in Welfare Dependence – Quasi-experimental Evidence”, Journal of Human Resources, 44(3), 799–825, 2009. (with Olof Åslund)
J17. “Peers, Neighborhoods, and Immigrant Student Achievement – Evidence from a Placement Policy”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(2), 67-95, 2011. (with Olof Aslund, Per-Anders Edin and Hans Grönqvist)
J18. “Estimating Preferences for Local Public Services using Migration Data”, Urban Studies, 49(2), 319–336, 2012. (with Matz Dahlberg, Matias Eklöf, and Jordi Jofre Monseny) (Previously entitled: “Migration and Local Public Services”, Working Paper 2001:12, Department of Economics, Uppsala University.)
J19. What Active Labor Market Policy Works in a Recession? Nordic Economic Policy Review, number 1/2011, 171–201, 2011. (with Anders Forslund and Johan Vikström, IFAU) (in working paper form as: WP 2011:9, Dept. of Economics, Stockholm
J20. Economics of Education: Policies and Effects. Nordic Economic Policy Review, number 1/2012, 1–15, 2012. (with Anders Björklund)
J21. Long-term Effects of Class Size. Quarterly Journal of Economics 128:1, 249-285, 2013. (Selected as “Editors choice” in this issue) (with Björn Öckert, IFAU and Hessel Oosterbeek, University of Amsterdam)
J22. “Life-cycle Effects of Age at School Start”, Economic Journal 124, 977-1004, 2014. (with Björn Öckert) (previous version entitled “Is Early Learning Really More
Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance”, IZA DP 1659)
J23. “Parental Responses to Public Investments in Children: Evidence
from a Maximum Class Size Rule”. Journal of Human Resources 51(4), forthcoming fall 2016. (with Björn Öckert and Hessel Oosterbeek) (previous version entitled “Inside the Black Box of Class Size: Mechanisms, Behavioral Responses, and Social Background”. IZA DP 8019)
Monographs
M1. Education, Migration and Active Labor Market Policy, Economic Studies 28, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1997. (Ph.D. Thesis).
M2. Den svenska skolan – effektiv och jämlik? Välfärdspolitiska rådets rapport 2003 (The Swedish School System – Is it Efficient and Equal? Report from the SNS Welfare Policy Group 2003), SNS Förlag, Stockholm. (with Anders Björklund, Per-Anders Edin, and Alan Krueger)
M3. The Market comes to Education – An Evaluation of Sweden’s Surprising School Reforms, Russell Sage Foundation, 2005. (with Anders Björklund, Melissa Clark, Per-Anders Edin, and Alan Krueger)
Contributions to edited books
E1. “Utbildningsnivå och utbildningsavkastning i Sverige” (Educational Attainment and Returns to Schooling in Sweden), in A. Björklund and A. Forslund (Eds.), Studier av svensk utbildning, Ekonomiska Rådets Årsbok 1993, Fritzes, Stockholm, 1994. (with Per-Anders Edin and Bertil Holmlund)
E2. “Efterfrågan på högre utbildning i Sverige” (The Demand for Higher Education in Sweden) in A. Björklund and A. Forslund (Eds.), Studier av svensk utbildning,
Ekonomiska Rådets Årsbok 1993, Fritzes, Stockholm, 1994.
E3. Förändrade förutsättningar för svensk lönebildning (A Changing Envrionment for Swedish Wage Determination), in R. Freeman, B Swedenborg, and R Topel (eds), Att reformera välfärdsstaten – Amerikanskt perspektiv på den svenska välfärdsstaten
(Reforming the Welfare State – Recovery and Beyond in Sweden), SNS Förlag, 2006. (with R Topel)
E4. How Can Incentives in Unemployment Insurance be Improved? Theory and
European Economy Special Report no. 2, Office for Official Publications of the EC, 2005, 101-119. (with Bertil Holmlund)
E5. The Macroeconomics of Education in Europe, in G Brunello, P Garibaldi and E Wasmer (eds.), Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2007. (with Ana Lamo, Julian Messina, Giovanni Peri, and Etienne Wasmer)
E6. “Wage Determination and Empoyment since the early 1990s – Wage Formation in a New Setting”, in Freeman, R, B Swedenborg, and R Topel (eds), Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden, University of Chicago Press, 83–126, 2010. (with Robert Topel)
Popular writing and other publications
P1. “Uppföljning av EU:s rekommendationer på skatte- och bidragsområdet” (Follow-up of the EU Recommendations on Tax and Benefit Systems), Stencilserie 2001:6,
Institutet för arbetsmarknadspolitisk utvärdering, 2001. (with Caroline Runeson) P2. “Bokanmälan: Lundh et al, Arbete? Var god dröj! Invandrare i välfärdssamhället, Välfärdspolitiska rådets rapport 2002” (Book-report on Lundh et al, Work? Please Hold! Immigrants in the Welfare State, Report from the SNS Welfare Policy Group 2002),
Ekonomisk Debatt 31, 59-62, 2003. (with Olof Åslund)
P3. Hur ser en optimal arbetslöshetsförsäkring ut? (What’s the Optimal Design of Unemployment Insurance?), Ekonomisk Debatt 32(4), 22-38, 2004. (with Bertil Holmlund)
P4. Svar till Sten Johansson om arbetslöshetsförsäkringen (Reply to Sten Johansson on Unemployment Insurance), Ekonomisk Debatt 32(6), 53-57, 2004. (with Bertil
Holmlund)
P5. Ledare: Om bruk och missbruk av experiment (On the Use and Misuse of Exeriments), Ekonomisk Debatt 33(7), 2005.
P6. ”Kommentar på Simon Calmar Andersen och Søren Serritzlew: Vad händer när offentliga skolor utsätts för konkurrens? Erfarenheter från Danmark” (Comment on Andersen and Serritzlew: “What Happens when Public Schools are Exposed to
Competition? The Danish Experience”), in A. Lindbom (ed), Friskolorna och framtiden – segregation, kostnader och effektivitet, Institutet för framtidsstudier, 2007.
P7. Är det bättre att börja skolan tidigare? (When Should Kids Start School?),
Ekonomisk Debatt, 36(2), 17-32, 2008. (with Björn Öckert)
P8. Hur mycket påverkas studieresultat av resurser? (How Big is the Effect of
Resources on Student Performance?), Ekonomisk Debatt, 36(3), 5-12, 2008. (with Björn Öckert)
P9. Påverkar bostadssegregationen flyktingbarns skolresultat? (Does Residential Segregation Affect Immigrant Student Achievement?), Søkelys på arbeidslivet, 3/2009, 26, 379–388. (with Olof Aslund, Per-Anders Edin and Hans Grönqvist)
P10. Income Support Systems, Labour Supply Incentives and Employment – some Cross-country Evidence, IFAU Working Paper 2009:32. (with Anders Forslund)
P11. Den svenska utbildningspolitikens arbetsmarknadseffekter: Vad säger
forskningen? (The Labor Market Effects of Swedish Educational Policies), IFAU Rapport 2010:13. (with Anders Björklund, Jan-Eric Gustafsson and Björn Öckert)
P12. Forskning inom utbildningsekonomi (Research in the Economics of Education), in A. Svensson (ed), Utvärdering Genom Uppföljning. Longitudinell individforskning under ett halvsekel. Gothenburg Studies in Educational Sciences 305, 2011. (with Björn
Öckert)
P13. Reformer och resultat: Kommer regeringens utbildningsreformer att ha någon betydelse? (Reforms and Results: Will the Educational Reforms of the Current
Government Make a Difference?) Rapport till Finanspolitiska rådet, 2011/3. (with Jonas Vlachos)
Text books
T1. Svensk arbetsmarknad (The Swedish Labor Market), in L. Hultkrantz and H. Tson Söderström (eds.), Marknad och Politik, 9th edition. Stockholm: SNS Förlag. (with Bertil Holmlund)
T2. Arbetsmarknaden (The Labor Market), 4th edition. Lund: Studentlitteratur. (with Anders Björklund, Per-Anders Edin, Bertil Holmlund, Eskil Wadensjö)
Unpublished work
U1. “LINDA – Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden”, Working Paper 2000:19, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. (with Per-Anders Edin).
U2. “Employment, Mobility and Active Labor Market Programs”, Working Paper 2003:5, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. (with Per Johansson)
U3. “Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment – New Evidence on an Old Question”, Working Paper 2008:15, IFAU. (also as IZA DP 3570) (with Martin
Söderström).
U4. Do Pre-school Interventions further the Integration of Immigrants? Evidence from Sweden, in Johansson, E-A (2010). Essays on Schooling, Gender, and Parental Leave, Economic Studies 121, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. (with Caroline Hall, Elly-Ann Johansson, and Per Johansson)
Work in progress:
W1. “How Solid is the Case for Employment Vouchers?”, manuscript, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, May 2002. (with Henrik Huitfeldt)
W2. What is so Special about Education in Finland? An Outsiders View, manuscript, IFAU, September 2006.
W3. The Supply of Skills to the Teacher Profession, manuscript, IFAU, 2007. (with Björn Öckert, IFAU)
W4. The Devil is in the (Institutional) Detail: Sorting and the RD Design in a Public School System. (with Björn Öckert, IFAU, and Hessel Oosterbeek, University of Amsterdam)
W5. How does a Declining Sequence of UI Replacement Rates Affect the Hazard to Employment? (with Helge Bennmarker, IFAU)
W6. How does the skill composition of the unemployed vary with the business cycle? (with Andreas Mueller, Columbia Business School, and Björn Öckert, IFAU)
W7. Who are the early leavers? Selection on cognitive and non-cognitive skills prior to mass layoff (with David Seim, University of Toronto)
W8. Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry wages, and Job Mobility” (with Lena Hensvik, IFAU, and Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University)
Teaching experience Undergraduate level
• Teaching assistant, Macroeconomics, Basic level (A-level), Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1993-1994.
• Teaching assistant, Macroeconomics, Advanced level (C/D-level), Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1994-1995.
• Lecturer, Applied Econometrics, Advanced level (D-level), Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1998.
• Lecturer, Applied Econometrics, Intermediate level (B-level), Department of Statistics, Uppsala University, 1999.
• Supervision of undergraduate thesis work (C/D-level), Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1999—2005.
• Lecturer, Economic Analysis of Social Problems, Advanced level (D-level), Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2002--2005.
• Supervision of undergraduate theses, Intermediate and advanced level, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2010--.
• Lecturer, Empirical Methods 2, Intermediate level, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2011–2015
• Lecturer, Policy Analysis in Labor Economics, Advanced level, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2011–.
Graduate level
• Joint responsibility for Graduate Seminars, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1997-2000.
• Job Creation and Job Destruction: Topics in Labor Demand, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1999.
• The Economics of Unemployment, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2000.
• Social Problems in the Swedish Economy, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2001.
• Macroeconomics I, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2001-2004. • Economics of Education, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2003, 2005. • Labor Economics, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2005.
• Graduate Labor Economics, Stockholm University, 2012- • Economics of Education, Stockholm University, 2014-
Refereeing (# occasions)
American Economic Review (2), Economica (1), Economic Journal (11), Economic Inquiry (2), Empirical Economics (1), European Economic Review (2), Industrial Relations (1), International Tax and Public Finance (1), Journal of Development Economics (1), Journal of the European Economic Association (3), Journal of Human Resources (2), Journal of Labor Economics (2), Journal of Population Economics (2), Journal of Public Economics (4), Labour Economics (7), MIT Press (1), Oxford Economic Papers (1), Quarterly Journal of Economics (4), Regional Science and Urban Economics
(1), Review of Economic Dynamics (1), Review of Economic Studies (3), Review of
Economics and Statistics (2), Scandinavian Journal of Economics (5), Swedish Economic Policy Review (1), World Bank (1).
Advisorships
• Main advisor for Martin Söderström. Title of thesis: Evaluating Institutional Changes in Education and Wage Policy, graduated in 2006.
• Main advisor for Elly-Ann Johansson. Title of thesis: Essays on Schooling, Gender, and Parental Leave, graduated in January 2010.
• Main advisor for Johan Egebark. Title of thesis: Taxes, Nudges, and Conformity: Essays in Labor and Behavioral Economics, graduated in March 2015.
• Main advisor for Wei Si. Thesis work in progress.
• Main advisor for Jonas Cederlöf. Thesis work in progress.
• Co-advisor for Olof Åslund. Title of thesis: Health, Immigration, and Settlement Policies, graduated in 2001.
• Co-advisor for Erika Ekström. Title of thesis: Essays on Inequality and Education, graduated in 2003.
• Co-advisor for Kenneth Natanaelsson. Licentiate thesis presented in the fall of 2003. • Co-advisor for Jonas Lagerström. Title of thesis: Discrimination, Sickness Absence,
and Labor Market Policy, graduated in 2006.
• Co-advisor for Ann-Christine Nilsson. Licentiate thesis presented in the fall of 2005. • Co-advisor for Caroline Hall. Title of thesis: Empirical Essays on Education and
Social Insurance Policies, graduated in February 2010. • Co-advisor for Charlotta Boström. Thesis work in progress. • Co-advisor for Nanna Fukushima. Thesis work in progress. Invited discussions, PhD committees etc
• ”Final opponent” on Kolm, A-S, “Labour Taxation in a Unionised Economy with Home Production”, in Taxation Wage Formation, Unemployment and Welfare, Economic Studies 32, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, June 1997.
• ”Final opponent” on Kjellström, C, “Essays on Investment in Human Capital”, Swedish Institute for Social Research, University of Stockholm, December 1998. • ”Final opponent” on Nordblom, K, “Intergenerational Transfers: The Role of
Within-the-Family Education”, in Essays on Fiscal Policy, Growth, and the Importance of Family Altruism, Economic Studies 51, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, March 2000.
• ”Final opponent” on Vilhelmsson, R, “Earnings and Unemployment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden”, University of Stockholm, March 2002.
• Invited discussant, Finnish Postgraduate Programme in Economics (FPPE), Workshop on Labour Economics, October 2002.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Andersson, F., Causes and Labor Market Consequences of Producer Heterogeneity, Economic Studies 73, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, June 2003.
• Invited Discussant, Annual (Joint) Workshop held by University of Turku, Turku School of Economics, and Åbo Akademi, September 2003.
• Ph.D. committee for Piil Damm, A., Dispersal Policies, Geographical Settlements and Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants, Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, February 2004.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Häkkinen, I., Essays on School Resources, Academic Achievement and Student Employment, Economic Studies 83, Department of
Economics, Uppsala University, October 2004.
• ”Final opponent” on Nilsson, A, “Indirect Effects of Unemployment and Low Earnings: Crime and Children’s School Performance”, University of Stockholm, November 2004.
• Discussant, Licentiate thesis, Nordin, M, “Studies in Educational Attainment and Returns to Education”, Lund University, May 2005.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Vernby, K., Essays on Political Economy, Department of Government, Uppsala University, May 2006.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Tyrefors, B. Institutions, Policy, and Quasi-Experimental Evidence, Stockholm School of Economics, December 2007.
• Faculty opponent Verho, J., Microeconometric Studies of Unemployment and the Business Cycles, Helsinki University, November 2008.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Bengtsson, N., Essays in Development and Labor Economics, Uppsala University, June 2009.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Folke, O., Parties, Power, and Patronage, Stockholm University, May 2010.
• Licentiate opponent Ina Blind, February 2012.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Laun, L., Studies on Social Insurance, Income Taxation and Labor Supply, Stockholm University, November 2012.
• Ph.D. committee for Cool, S., Having it all, Oslo University, February 2013.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Ek, S., Essays on Unemployment Insurance Design, Uppsala University, April 2013.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Karimi, A., Impacts of Policies, Peers and Parenthood on Labor Market Outcomes, Uppsala University, February 2014.
• Member of Ph.D. committee for Stadin, K., Employment Dynamics, Uppsala University, June 2014.
• Ph.D. committee for Hernæs, Ø., Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Department of Economics, European University Institute, May 2015.
Membership of expert/scientific committees
• Lectureship, University College Dalarna, spring 2005.
• Research applications, The Research Council of Norway 2006. • Research applications, The Research Council of Norway 2010.
• Scientific programme committee, EALE/SOLE (2010, 2015) and EALE (2014) • Application for promotion, Statistics Norway, 2010.
• Lectureship in Macroeconomics, Uppsala University, spring 2012.
• Post-doc Evaluation Committee, Norwegian School of Economics, spring 2015 • Associate Professor in Labour Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, spring
2015
• Promotion to Lectureship, Uppsala University, spring 2015. Other activities
• Member of Scientific Management committee, Nordic Centre of Excellence: “Empirical Labor Economics”.
• Member of LINDA advisory group.
• Member of Advisory Research Board of SFI (the Danish National Centre for Social Research), 2009-2013.
• Member of Scientific Advisory Board for IRVAPP (Institue for the Research of Evaluation of Public Policies).
• Member of Advisory Board for the School Inspection (Skolinspektionen), 2010--2012. • Member of the Board of the Department of Economics, Uppsala University,
1999-2002. (Deputy member 2002--2005)
• Member SNS’ Council on Welfare Policy 2003.
• Member of EU/RTN network “New Techniques for the Evaluation of European Labour Market Policies”.
• Organizer “Changing Conditions for Education and Training in Europe”, Workshop organized by CEPR, IFAU, and Uppsala University, Uppsala, September, 2003. • Member of EU/RTN network “Economics of Education and Education Policy in
Europe”.
• Organizer of Labor Economics Workshop, fall 2003—spring 2005.
• Editorial Board, “Ekonomisk Debatt”, Journal of the Economic Association of Sweden, 2005--2006.
• Organizer “2nd conference of the network Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe”, Uppsala, 7-8 October 2005.
• Organizer “1st Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics”, Uppsala, 11-13 June
2006.
• Organizer, “Workshop in Labor Economics”, Uppsala, 24-25 August 2007. • Organizer, “Workshop in Labor Economics”, Uppsala, 10-11 March 2009.
• Organizer “5th Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics”, Reykjavik, 14–15 June
2010.
• Organizer “6th Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics”, Torshavn, 7–9 June
2011.
• Organizer “4th Summer School in Public Economics: Immigration and Public Policy”,
Barcelona, 4–8 July 2011.
• Editor, Nordic Economic Policy Review, “Economics of Education: Policies and effects”, Number 1/2012.
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012--2014.
• Member of the Board of the Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2012--2014.
• Organizer “10th Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics”, Uppsala, 8–9 June
2015.
Shorter visits
• CentER, Tilburg University, May 2000. • Tinbergen Institute, May 2000.
• Aarhus Business School and University of Aarhus, June 2002. • IZA, September 2003.
• IEB, Barcelona, March 2010. Keynotes/Invited speaker
• Is Early Learning Really More Productive? RUESG workshop on Labour Economics, University of Helsinki: 17 Dec 2004.
• Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? Evaluation of Active and Passive Labour Market Policies for the Long-Term Unemployed and Social Benefit Recipients, IAB, Germany: 23 November 2007.
• Is US-style secondary education for everyone? Distributional consequences of some reforms to upper-secondary education in Sweden during the 1990s. Education in Adulthood and the Labour Market, IAB, Germany: 6–7 Nov 2009.
• Active Labor Market Policy and the Business Cycle – Rationale, Evaluation Problem, and Evidence. EQUALSOC summer school, University of Trento: 23 Aug 2010. • Peers, Neighborhoods, and Immigrant Student Achievement. Workshop on
“Immigration, Integration, and School Achievement”, Aarhus University: 22–23 Nov 2010.
• What Active Labor Market Policy Works in Recession. CPB-ROA conference on “Flexibility of the Labour Market”: 20–21 Jan 2011.
• Inside the Black Box of Class Size Effects: Behavioral Responses to Class Size Variations. Workshop on “Economics of Successful Children: Families and Schools”, Aarhus University: 10–12 Jan 2013.
• Parental Responses to Educational Intervention. Conference on Evidence on Schooling and Wellbeing, Aarhus, 28-29 Aug 2014.
Participation in conferences (where work has been presented):
• Workshop on Empirical Analysis of the Labour Market, Oslo, June 1994.
• European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), Warsaw, September 1994. • Ekonometridagarna, Umeå, May, 1995.
• EALE, Lyon, September, 1995.
• Workshop in Labor Economics, Uppsala, June 1996.
• European Economic Association (EEA), Berlin, September 1998.
• CEPR conference on “Marginal Labour Markets in Metropolitan Areas”, Dublin, October, 1999.
• EALE/SOLE, Milan, June 2000
• NBER Summer Institute, Boston, August 2000. • EEA, Lausanne, August 2001.
• Workshop in Econometrics, CEMMAP, London, March 2002.
• CESifo conference on Employment and Social Protection, Munich, May 2003. • CEPR conference on “Inequality in the Labour Market”, Bergen, August 2004. • First Network Workshop of the RTN “Economics of Education and Education Policy
in Europe” (CEPR), Amsterdam, November 2004. • Labor Market Workshop, Montreal, April 2005. • EALE/SOLE, San Francisco, June 2005.
• Finnish EU presidency conference on Lifelong Learning, Equity, and Efficiency, Helsinki, September, 2006.
• Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics, Aarhus, June 2008.
• 4th Network Conference of the RTN “Economics of Education and Education Policy in
Europe” (CEPR), Amsterdam, October 2008.
• Workshop on the Economics of Immigration: The Children of Temporary Migrants & Temporary Migration, May 2009.
• EALE/SOLE, London, June 2010.
• SUNSTRAT Workshop on Education and Inequality, Stockholm, April 2012. • Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics, Bergen, June 2012.
• Bergen-Stavanger Workshop on Labour Markets, Families and Children, Bergen, June 2012.
• SOLE, Boston, May 2013.
• EALE, Ljubljana, September 2014. Awards
• CC Söderström’s fund (awarded by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
• Ingemar Carlsson’s memorial fund (awarded by ”Nationalekonomiska föreningen”, Uppsala University)
• “Letterstedts resestipendier” (awarded by Uppsala University) • “Jubelfeststipendiet” (awarded by Uppsala University)
• Siamon Foundation Research Grants
• Main applicant, “Long-run Effects of Educational Interventions” (2013-17), Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond. SEK 6000000.
• Main applicant, “Long-run Effects of Educational Interventions” (2012–16), Tom Hedelius stiftelse, Handelsbanken. SEK 2000000.
• Main applicant, (2012–13) “Manna from Heaven: How Did Firms Respond to the Payroll Tax Reduction for Youths?” Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation: SEK 1475000.
• Main applicant, “Assistant Professorship: The Functioning, Effects, and Efficiency of Social Insurance”, (2000–04), Swedish Council for Social Research.
• Main applicant, “Educational Reforms, Equality, and Efficiency (2003), Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation.
• Main applicant, International Recruitment Stipend, Handelsbanken, 2010, 2012. • Co-applicant, “Uppsala Center for Labor Studies” (2009–19) (Main applicant: Bertil
Holmlund)
• Co-applicant, Nordic Centre of Excellence: “Labor Economics” (2005–10). (Main applicant: Per-Anders Edin)
• Co-applicant, Research Program: “Education and Inequality” (2001–07), Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research. (Main applicant, Bertil Holmlund) • Co-applicant, “Unemployment Insurance and Risk” (2000–03), Swedish Council for
Social Research. (Main applicant, Bertil Holmlund)
• Co-applicant, “Wage Policy, Structural Change and Mobility: The Swedish Labor Market 1960-1995”. (1997–99), Swedish Council for Work Life Research. (Main applicant, Per-Anders Edin)
• Co-applicant, “LINDA: A Register-based Longitudinal INdividual DAtabase for Sweden”, (1997–99), Swedish Council for Planninig and Coordination of Research. (Main applicant Per-Anders Edin)
• Co-applicant, “LINDA: Additional Data and Documentation”, (1999-2000), Swedish Council for Planninig and Coordination of Research. (Main applicant Per-Anders Edin)
• Co-applicant, “LINDA: Improving the Household Definition”, (2000), Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research. (Main applicant Per-Anders Edin)
• Main applicant on several applications for conference/course funding (e.g., Social Interactions, lectures by Durlauf/Fershtman/Manski, and Causal Inference, lectures by Imbens/Rubin)
Invited seminar talks (prior to 2002, incomplete) 1995: Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
1996: Trade Union Institute of Economic Research (FIEF)
1997: Economic Council of Sweden, Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) 1998: FIEF, FIEF, Deutches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
2000: CentER, Tilburg University, Tinbergen Institute
2001: Department of Economics, University of Stockholm, Department of Economics, University of Stockholm, Economic Council of Sweden.
2002: Stockholm School of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Stockholm University, Arhus School of Business, University of Arhus, University of Helsinki.
2003: University of Örebro, Uppsala University (Department of Statistics), IZA, University of Turkku, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Umeå.
2004: The Swedish National Agency for School Improvement, Tinbergen Institute, Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm), University of Zurich, FIEF (Stockholm). 2005: University of Växjö, University of Stockholm, University of Copenhagen, University of Essex.
2006: University of Gothenburg. 2008: University of Helsinki. 2009: London School of Economics.
2010: IEB (Barcelona), University of Mannheim. 2011: SOFI (Stockholm), Tinbergen Institute.
2012: Linneaus University (Växjö), HECER (Helsinki) 2013: Oslo University
2014: University of Warwick
