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I am a PhD student in Economics at Stockholm University. My research lies in labor and health economics, with a particular interest in discrimination and migration.
Research
Working Papers
The Economic Consequences of Chronic Gynecological DiseasesDraft coming soon
Abstract
This paper examines the socioeconomic consequences associated with endometriosis and polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS, formerly known as PCOS). I link healthcare records from Region Skåne to Swedish administrative data and compare diagnosed women with their unaffected biological sisters using sister-group fixed effects. The estimates are likely to be conservative because comparison sisters share family background and underlying biological risk. I find little evidence of differences in educational attainment, but substantial differences in fertility and health. Diagnosed women are 9 percentage points less likely to enter motherhood, have 0.28 fewer children, and have their first child about one year later. They also experience higher rates of infertility, cardiovascular and psychiatric diagnoses, greater medication use, and higher sickness-benefit receipt. In contrast, I find no statistically detectable differences in annual labor earnings or employment. The results show that chronic gynecological conditions are associated with substantial differences in fertility, health, and health-related work absence even when conventional labor-market outcomes appear similar.
Migration Background and Antibiotic Guideline Adherence: Evidence from Swedish Primary CareDraft coming soon
Abstract
We investigate differences in guideline adherence between migrant and native patients in primary care and whether physician-patient concordance mitigates this difference. Using administrative data covering the universe of primary care visits and prescriptions from Region Skåne, Sweden (2012-2019), linked to detailed patient and physician characteristics, we examine adherence to national antibiotic prescribing guidelines at the visit level. Exploiting quasi-random patient assignment to physicians within primary care centers and conditioning on physician fixed effects, we identify differences in treatment between second-generation migrants and native Swedes. We find that guideline adherence is higher among second-generation migrant patients than among native Swedes. We find no evidence that physician-patient migration concordance affects guideline adherence at the intensive margin. However, at the extensive margin, migrant patients receive antibiotics less frequently than native patients, and this gap is effectively neutralized when the treating physician also has a migrant background. We further document that guideline-concordant prescribing is associated with a higher probability of receiving an additional antibiotic prescription within a 7- to 30-day horizon.
Work in Progress
Labour-Market Effects of Stricter Residence Rules for Family Migrants
Abstract
Family migration is the dominant channel to OECD countries, yet, compared to other migrants, few policies aim to improve family migrants’ integration. Most family migrants are women and they often have a weak labor market attachment. Using Swedish register data, this paper evaluates a reform that made employment a condition for permanent residence for non-EU family members of work migrants. In a difference-in-differences design comparing them to unaffected EU migrants, we find a 15-percentage-point increase in employment two years post-reform. However, about half of the affected family migrants remain non-employed, and tightened conditionality for permanent permits reduces naturalization by lowering approved citizenship applications.
Vita
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Contact
Department of Economics
Stockholm University
Room A686
Universitetsvägen 10 A, Floor 6
Stockholm, Sweden