Mikael Lindahl
Ph.D., Associate Professor

Primary fields of interest and research topics:

Economics of Education, Intergenerational transmission

Articles in refereed journals:

"The effect of extra funding for disadvantaged students on achievement" (with Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink), Review of Economics and Statistics, 89(4), Pages 721-736, November 2007.

“The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data” (with Anders björklund and Erik Plug), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(3), Pages 999-1028, August 2006.

”Home versus School Learning: A new Approach to Estimating the Effect of Class Size on Achievement,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 107(2), 375-394, 2005.

”Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality using Lottery Prizes as Exogenous Source of Variation in Income,” Journal of Human Resources, 40(1) Winter issue, 144-168, 2005.

“Family background and school performance during a turbulent era of school reforms” (with Anders björklund and Krister Sund), Swedish Economic Policy Review 10(2), pp. 111-136, Fall 2003.

”Education for Growth: Why and for Whom?” (with Alan Krueger), Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 39 (4), December 2001. Reprinted in Belfield, C. (ed.) Modern Classics in the Economics of Education:, Edward Elgar Publishing, March 2006, and in Addison, John T. (ed.) Recent Developments in Labor Economics:, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.

”Education for Growth in Sweden and the World” (with Alan Krueger), Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol. 6 (2), Autumn 1999. Reprinted in Education Matters: Collected Essays by Alan B. Krueger, Edward Elgar Publishing, October 2000.

Unpublished work:

"Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-year olds" (with Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink), March 2009, R&R Economics of Education Review.

"The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’s Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods," (with Helena Holmlund and Erik Plug), August 2008, IZA WP 3630, R&R Journal of Economic Literature.

"Does School Privatization Improve Educational Achievement? Evidence from Sweden´s Voucher Reform," (with Anders Böhlmark), IZA WP 3691, September 2008.

"The Impact of School Choice on Pupil Achievement, Segregation and Costs: Swedish Evidence" (with Anders Böhlmark), IZA Working paper 2786, 2007.

”Achievement, Schooling and Family Background: Evidence for Sweden,” mimeo, June 2007.

"Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What can we learn from adoption data?" (with Anders Björklund and Erik Plug), IZA WP, June 2004.