Latest drafts of my research papers:
Work in progress:
Labor Market Drivers of Intergenerational Earnings Persistence
with Erika Forsberg and Martin Nybom
Immigration, Monopsony and the Distribution of Firm Pay
with Michael Amior
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16692
Quasi-Random Matches: Evidence from Dual Labor Markets
with Henry Redondo and Maria Castellanos
How Early Career Choices Adjust to Economic Crises
with Edvin Hertegård, Julien Grenet, Hans Grönqvist and Martin Nybom
How to Control for (Pre-)Trends
with Camila Steffens
Assortative Mating, Inequality, and Rising Educational Mobility in Spain
with Ricard Grebol, Margarita Machelett and Ernesto Villanueva
A Life-Cycle Estimator of Intergenerational Income Mobility
with Ursula Mello and Martin Nybom
Accepted at the Review of Economics and Statistics
The Effects of Immigration on Places and People – Identification and Interpretation
with Christian Dustmann, Sebastian Otten and Uta Schönberg
Accepted at the Journal of Labor Economics
Exposure to War and its Labor Market Consequences over the Life Cycle
with Sebastian Braun
arXiv Working paper
Accepted at the Journal of Economic History
Social Inequality in Children’s Cognitive Effort and the Moderating Role of Incentives
with Jonas Radl and the Effort Team
Accepted at the American Sociological Review
Educational Mobility Across Multiple Generations in Indonesia
with Sarah Cattan, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Po Yin Wong
R&R at the Journal of Development Economics
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries
with Leah Boustan, Mathias Jensen and many others
R&R at the American Economic Review
Shift-Share Instruments and Dynamic Adjustments: The Case of Immigration
with Joakim Ruist and David A. Jaeger
NBER Working Paper 24285 // updated version
Discussed at David McKenzie’s World Bank Blog
R&R at the Journal of Labor Economics
Measurement Errors and Rank Correlations
with Martin Nybom and Toru Kitagawa
Available as cemmap Working Paper CWP28/18
Reject & Resubmit at the Review of Economics and Statistics
Occupational Choice and Family Background: the Role of Borrowing Constraints
with Salvatore Lo Bello, Ursula Mello and Martin Nybom
Publications:
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility
with Martin Nybom
Sociological Methods and Research, 2025 // WP version
The Integration of Migrants in the German Labor Market: Evidence over 50 Years
with Paul Berbée
Economic Policy, Vol. 40(122), 2025 // WP version
The Economic Consequences of Being Widowed by War: A Life-Cycle Perspective
with Sebastian Braun
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 239, 2024 // WP version
Multigenerational Inequality
Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality, 2024 // WP version
Interpreting Trends in Intergenerational Mobility
with Martin Nybom
Discussed at the Brookings Institution
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 132(8), 2024 // WP version
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks
with Ines Helm
AEJ: Applied Economics, Vol. 16(4), 2024 // WP version
Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility
with Torsten Santavirta
Economic Journal, Vol. 134(663), 2024 // WP version
Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
with Dolores Collado and Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín
Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 90(3), 2023 // WP version
Educational Inequality
with Jo Blanden and Matthias Doepke
Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 6, 2023 // WP version
The Global Covid-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results
with David A. Jaeger and many others
Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 79, 2021 // WP version
Steady-state Assumptions in Intergenerational Mobility Research
with Martin Nybom
Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019 // WP version
The Transmission of Inequality Across Multiple Generations:
Testing Recent Theories with Evidence from Germany
with Sebastian Braun
Economic Journal, Vol. 128(609), 2018 // WP version
Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment
with Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 132(1), 2017 // WP version
Biases in Standard Measures of Intergenerational Income Dependence
with Martin Nybom
Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 52(3), 2017 // WP version
The Impact of Immigration: Why Do Studies Reach Such Different Results?
with Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 30(4), 2016 // WP version
Mobility Across Multiple Generations: The Iterated Regression Fallacy
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Previous version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 7072
[Note: My chapter on “Multigenerational Inequality” in the Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality also covers material from this manuscript.]
Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias
in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation
with Martin Nybom
Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 51(1), 2016 // WP Version
Reviews and Policy Reports:
Einwanderung klug, einfach und fair gestalten: Ein Vorschlag mit doppelter Dividende
IZA Standpunkt Nr. 105 (2023),
with Manuela Barisic, Simon Jäger, Alan Manning, Mathilde Muñoz and Ulf Rinne
The Study of Intergenerational Mobility using Administrative Data
JRC Science for Policy Report (2020),
for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
A Review of Intergenerational Mobility and its Drivers
JRC Technical Report (2018),
for the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
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