Stockholm University

Department of Economics
SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden

marten.palme@ne.su.se

+46-8-16 33 07
 

Research interests

• Labor Economics
• Empirical Public Finance
• Econometrics

Current teaching

• Labor Economics (Graduate), Fall
• Health Economics (Graduate), Spring
• Micro Data Econometrics (Undergraduate), Spring
   

Here is a link to my Google scholar page
 

Working papers and selected publications

• Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility,  with Adrian Adermon and Mikael Lindahl. Forthcoming in American Economic Review.
   
• Pre-and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees, with Evelina Björkegren, Mikael Lindahl and Emilia Simeonova.  Forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources.
   
• Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Sweden, with Lisa Laun. In Coile and Börsch-Supan (eds.) Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Reforms and Retirement Incentives. University of Chicago Press.
   
• Sickness absence and local benefit cultures (with Assar Lindbeck and Mats Persson). Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 118, pp 49-78.
   
• "Pathways to Retirement and the Role of Financial Incentives in Sweden" in Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement (with Per Johansson and Lisa Laun). University of Chicago Press, 2016.
   
• An adaptive significance of morning sickness? Trivers–Willard and Hyperemesis Gravidarum (with Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, and Michael Joffe). Economics & Human Biology, vol. 21, pp. 167-171.
   
• School Performance After Preterm Birth (with Fredrik Ahlsson, Magnus Kaijser, Johanna Adami, and Maria Lundgren). Epidemiology, January 2015, Vol. 26, Issue 1, p. 106–111.
   
• Does women's education affect breast cancer risk and survival? Evidence from a population based social experiment in education (with Emilia Simeonova), Journal of Health Economics, vol. 42, 2015, 115-124.
   
• X-ray exposure in utero and school performance: a population-based study of X-ray pelvimetry (with A.C. Nordenskjöld and M. Kaijser). Clinical Radiology, May 2015.
   
• Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations pdf (468 Kb) (with Mikael Lindahl, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren). Journal of Human Resources, January 1, 2015, 50:1-33.
   
• The effect of education policy on crime: an intergenerational perspective (570 Kb) (with Costas Meghir and Marieke Schnabel).
   
• A test of the Becker-Tomes model of human capital transmission using microdata on four generations (with Mikael Lindahl, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren). Forthcoming in Journal of Human Capital.
   
• Education, Cognition and Health: Evidence from a Social Experiment (with Costas Meghir and Emilia Simeonova).
   
• Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden (with Lisa Jönsson and Ingemar Svensson).
   
• Social Interaction and Sickness Absence (with Assar Lindbeck and Mats Persson).
   
• Chernobyl's subclinical legacy: Prenatal exposure to radioactive fallout and school outcomes in Sweden pdf (512 Kb) (with Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund). In The Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2009, 1729/1772. Available as NBER Working Paper no. 13347 and Columbia University Working Paper
  Commented on in Viewpoint article: ``Radiation, retardation and the developing brain: time is the crucial variable" by Richard S Nowakowski, Nancy L Hayes Acta Paediatrica 2008, May, pages 527–531.
  Popular press: Chemistry World , The Register, New York Times Magazine, Sept. 16, 2007.
   
• The Employment Effect of Stricter Rules for Eligibility to DI: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Sweden pdf (1520 Kb) (with Anders Karlström and Ingemar Svensson). Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008) 2071-2082.
   
• Job Security and Work Absence: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (173 Kb) (with Assar Lindbeck and Mats Persson).
   
• Parental Income, Lifetime Income and Mortality (264 Kb) (with Sofia Sandgren). Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(4), 890-911.
   
• Investment Choice in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan (1842 Kb) (with Annika Sundén and Paul Söderlind). Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 5(2-3), 636-646.
   
• Educational Reform, Ability and Parental Background (221 Kb) (with Costas Meghir). American Economic Review, 2005, 95(1), 414-424.
   
• Intergenerational Mobility, Human Capital Transmission and the Economic Position of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden pdf (272 Kb) (with Mats Hammarstedt).
   
• Moral Hazard and Sickness Insurance (153 Kb) (with Per Johansson). Journal of Public Economics, 2005(9-10), 89, 1879-1890.
   
• A Dynamic Programming Approach to Model the Retirement Behavior of Blue-collar Workers in Sweden pdf (176 Kb) (with Anders Karlström and Ingemar Svensson). In Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19, 795-807.
   
• Financial Implications of Income Security Reforms in Sweden (138 Kb) (with Ingemar Svensson). Tables and figures (119 Kb) .
   
• Pathways to Retirement and Retirement Incentives in Sweden (302 Kb) (with Ingemar Svensson). In T. Andersen and P. Molander (eds.) Alternatives for Welfare Policy, 2003, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
   
• Economic Incentives and Gender Differences in Work Absence Behavior (with Göran Broström and Per Johansson). In Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2004, 11 (1), 33-63.
   
• Income Security Programs and Retirement in Sweden (490 Kb) (with Ingemar Svensson)17. In Jonathan Gruber and David Wise (eds.) “Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Micro-estimates”, 2004, Chicago University Press: Chicago.
   
• Assessing the Welfare Change from a Pension Reform (968 Kb) (with Anders Karlström and Ingemar Svensson). In International Tax and Public Finance, 2011, 18(6), 634-657.
   
• Ability, Parental Background and Education Policy: Empirical Evidence from a Social Experiment (284 Kb) (with Costas Meghir).
   
• Assessing the Effect of a Public Policy on Worker Absenteeism (492 Kb) (with Per Johansson). Journal of Human Resources, 37(2), Spring 2002, 381-409.
   
• The Evolution of Income Inequality during the Rise of the Swedish Welfare State 1951 to 1973 (162 Kb) (with Anders Björklund), in Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 2000, 26 (2), 115-128.
   
• Do Economic Incentives Affect Work Absence? Empirical Evidence Using Swedish Micro Data (1165 Kb) (with Per Johansson). Journal of Public Economics, 1996, 59, 195-218.
   
• Income Distribution Effects of the Swedish 1991 Tax Reform: An analysis of a Microsimulation Using Generalized Kakwani Decomposition, in Journal of Policy Modeling, 1996, 18, 419-443.
   
• Earnings Mobility and Distribution: Comparing Statistical Models on Swedish Data, in Labour Economics, 1995, 2, 213-247.
   
• Changes in the Rate of Return to Education in Sweden: 1968-1991 (775 Kb) (with Robert E. Wright), in Applied Economics 1998, 30 (12), 1653-1664.
   
• A Decade of Tax and Benefit Reforms in Sweden - Effects on Labour Supply, Welfare and Inequality". (with Thomas Aronsson). Economica 1998, 65, 39-67.
   
• Tax Reforms and Income Distribution: An Assessment Using Different Income Concepts (625 Kb) (with Anders Björklund and Ingemar Svensson), in Swedish Economic Policy Review, 1995, 2, 229-266.
   
• Income Inequality and Income Mobility in the Scandinavian Countries Compared to the United States (133 Kb) (with R. Aaberge, A. Björklund, M. Jäntti, P. Pedersen, N. Smith and T. Wennemo). Review of Income and Wealth, 2002, vol 48 (4) 443-470.
   
• Social Security, Occupational Pensions and Retirement in Sweden (with Ingemar Svensson), in Jonathan Gruber and David Wise (eds.) "Social Security and Retirement Around the World", Chicago University Press: Chicago.
   
• Income redistribution within the life cycle versus between individuals: Empirical evidence using Swedish panel data. (with Anders Björklund). In David Cohen, Thomas Piketty and Gille Saint-Paul (eds.) "New Economics of Rising Inequalities", Oxford University Press: Oxford.
   
• A Macroeconomic Analysis of Employer-Contribution Financed Social Security (with Edward Palmer), in B.A. Gustafsson och N.A. Klevmarken (eds.) "The Political Economy of Social Security" (North-Holland, Amsterdam), 1989.
   
• Gender Discrimination and Compensating Differentials in Sweden (with Robert Wright). Applied Economics, 1992, 24, 751-759.