PhD in Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1998.
Research interest
Macroeconomics, Public Finance
Publications and recent working papers
Should daycare be subsidized?, (with Paul Klein)
The Missing Swedish Skill Premium: Sweden versus United States 1970-2002, (with Lars Ljungqvist)
Inequality Trends in Sweden 1978-2004, (with Martin Flodén), Review of Economic Dynamics, forthcoming
Rising Earnings Inequality in Sweden: The Role of Composition and Prices, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110(3), pp. 609-634
Population Aging and International Capital Flows, (with Martin Flodén), International Economic Review, 2006, 47(3), pp. 1013-1032
Consumption and Health, (with Magnus Johannesson), Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2006, 6(1), Article 6
The labor-supply elasticity and borrowing constraints: Why estimates are biased, (with Martin Flodén), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2006, 9(2), pp. 242-262
Optimal Capital Taxation and Labor Market Search, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2005, 8(3), pp. 623-650
Pre-announced optimal tax reform (with Paul Klein), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2005, 9(2), pp. 150-169
On the Distributional Effects of Reducing Capital Taxes, (with Jonathan Heathcote), International Economic Review, 2004, 45(2), 523-554
Public pensions: To What Extent Do They Account for Swedish Wealth Inequality?, (with Paul Klein), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2002, 5(3), 503-534