Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo with a PhD. in economics from Göteborg University in 2011. My research interests are mainly development economics, economics of the welfare state, and labor economics. I currently teach the master course in development economics.
Selected publications
“Do Laws Affect Attitudes? An assessment of the Norwegian prostitution law using longitudinal data”
International Review of Law and Economics 31(2), pp. 103-115. 2011.
Joint work with Niklas Jakobsson. Working paper version: Law
”Did the Murder of Theo van Gogh Change Europeans” Immigration Policy Preferences?”
Kyklos 64(3) 396-409. 2011.
Joint work with Niklas Jakobsson and Henning Finseraas.
“A Field Experiment of Discrimination in the Norwegian Housing Market: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity”
Land Economics 88(2): 233-240. 2012.
Joint work with Lisa Andersson and Niklas Jakobsson .
”The Gender Gap in Political Preferences: An Empirical Test of a Political Economy Explanation”
Social Politics 19(2): 219-242. Joint work with Niklas Jakobsson and Henning Finseraas.
”The State Intervenes in the Battle of the Sexes: Causal Effects of Paternity Leave”
Social Science Research 40(6): 1611-1622. 2011.
Joint work with Henning Finseraas.
Previous version: The state intervenes in the battle of the sexes
“DOES INFORMAL ELDERCARE IMPEDE WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT? THE CASE OF EUROPEAN WELFARE STATES”
Feminist Economics 17 (2), 121-144. 2011
Free version: Does Informal Eldercare Impede Women’s Employment
Forthcoming in European Journal of Law and Economics. 2012.
Joint work with Niklas Jakobsson. Working paper version: Trafficking
Newer version: Trafficking 2011
“Shame on you, John! Laws, stigmatization, and the demand for sex”.
Accepted for publication in European Journal of Law and Economics.
Joint work with Niklas Jakobsson.
”Gender and overconfidence: are girls really overconfident ?”
Applied Economics Letters 18(4): 325-327. Joint work with Jakobsson, Dahlbom, Jakobsson. 2011.
“Do attitudes toward gender equality really differ between Norway and Sweden?”
Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 20, no 2. pp. 142-159. Joint work with Niklas Jakobsson. 2010
”Gender Equity and Prostitution: An Investigation of Attitudes in Norway and Sweden“
Feminist Economics 17(1), pp 31-58. Joint work with Niklas Jakobsson. 2011
