Dan-Olof Rooth

Research Fellow

Stockholm University

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Dan-Olof Rooth completed his doctorate in Economics at Lund University in Sweden in 1999 with his thesis on “Refugee Immigrants in Sweden”. Then he became employed at the Department of Economics at Linneaus University (previously Kalmar), Sweden. In 2009 he became professor. Since January 2016 he is a professor at the Institute of social research (SOFI) at Stockholm University. Dan-Olof has published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, AEJ-Applied, Journal of Human Resources, Economic Journal, Journal of Population Economics, Economic Letters and Labour Economics. His current research interests include issues in Economic Psychology, Political Economy, Ethnic Discrimination and Health Economics as well as more general research on labor market opportunities of immigrants.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2006.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10349
Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?
Magnus Carlsson, Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'Backlash in policy attitudes after the election of an extreme political party' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204, 104533
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9175
Birth Weight in the Long-Run
Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(1), 189-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9174
Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises
Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as "Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis": Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 136-144.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7619
Artifactual Evidence of Discrimination in Correspondence Studies? A Replication of the Neumark Method
Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco, Dan-Olof Rooth
revised version published as 'Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination?' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3, 11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6913
The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
Magnus Carlsson, Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 533–547
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6570
Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory Schooling Reform
Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (1), 253-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6235
Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Stefan Eriksson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1014-1039
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6227
Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap
Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (1), 227-252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6153
Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation
Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2012, 19 (18), 1861-1864
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6099
The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
Petter Lundborg, Martin Nordin, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'The intergenerational transmission of human capital: the role of skills and health' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (4), 1035-1065.'
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