Welcome to Anders Stenberg´s homepage
Anders StenbergDocent - Associate Professor of Economics
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Stockholm University
SE-10691 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Phone: +46 8 6747971
Fax: +46 8 154670
E-mail: anders.stenberg@sofi.su.se
[publikationer på svenska längst ned på sidan]
Research interests:
Labour Economics, Economics of education, income inequality, nature & nurture.
Current research:
The Earnings Impact of Education for Older Workers – Analyzing Annual Register Data Stretching over 25 Years, with Xavier de Luna and Olle Westerlund. SOFI Working Paper 8/2011.
Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice? With Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn.
Domestic Services and Female Earnings; Evidence from a Reform. With Karin Halldén.
Empirically testing the earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training. With Olle Westerlund.
Publications:
(Please note that some of the links below lead to subscription databases)
Interpreting Estimates of Heritability - A Note on the Twin Decomposition. Economics and Human Biology 11, 2013, 201-205 (WP version, SOFI 4/2011).
The Impact of Formal Adult Education on the Likelihood of Being Employed: a Comparative Overview. With Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Daniela Vono de Vilhena, Yuliya Kosyakova & Hans-Peter Blossfeld. Studies of Transition States and Societies 4(1) 2012, 48-68.
2012: The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth – Evidence from Swedish Labour Market Regions, with Dan-Olof Rooth. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 59(2), 2012, 196-223 (WP version: IZA 5486).
2012: Can Adult Upper Secondary Education Delay Retirement from the Labour Market?, with Xavier de Luna and Olle Westerlund. Journal of Population Economics 25(2), 2012, 677-696 (WP version: IFAU 2010:2).
Using Longitudinal Data to Evaluate Publicly Provided Formal Education for Low Skilled. Economics of Education Review 30(6), 2011, 1262-1280. (WP version: SOFI 1/2009 [different title]).
Nature, Nurture and Socioeconomic Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics? with Petter Lundborg. Economics and Human Biology 8(3) 2010, 320-330. (WP version: IZA 4585)
The Impact on Annual Earnings of Adult Upper Secondary Education in Sweden, International Journal of Lifelong Education 29(3) 2010, 303-321. (WP version: IFAU 2007:9).
Does Comprehensive Education Work for the Long Term Unemployed?, with Olle Westerlund. Labour Economics 15(1) 2008, 54-67.
Comprehensive Education or Vocational Training for the Unemployed? International Journal of Manpower 28(1) 2007, 42-61.
Comprehensive Education for the Unemployed: Evaluating the Effects on Unemployment of the Adult Education Initiative in Sweden, Labour 19(1) March 2005, 123-146.
Higher Education and the determination of Aggregate Male Employment by Age, with Magnus Wikström. Education Economics 12(1) April 2004, 87-101.
Books:
Adult Education for A Better Society? VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken, 2008.
An Evaluation of the Adult Education Initiative Relative Labor Market Training. PhD Thesis, Umeå University, 2003.
Book chapter:
Evidence on the Impact of Adult Upper Secondary Education in Sweden. In Blakely, P.N. och Tomlin, A.H. (eds.) “Adult Education: Issues and Developments”, NOVA publishers, New York, 2008.
Other selected articles:
Access to Education Over the Working Life in Sweden - Priorities, Institutions and Efficiency. OECD Education Working Papers 62, 2012.
Är komvux för stort eller för litet? (Skrivet för "Rådslagsgrupp jobb" 2008)
Hur påverkar gymnasialt komvux inkomster och vidare studier? Arbetsmarknad och Arbetsliv 14(1) våren 2008.
Är komvux en bra åtgärd? Ekonomiska utvärderingar av vuxenutbildning som policyinstrument. Arbetsmarknad och Arbetsliv 11 (4) vintern 2005.
