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. 16217
Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination: A Field Experiment
Vegar Bjørnshagen, Dan-Olof Rooth, Elisabeth Ugreninov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16119
Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender When Hiring: A Field Experiment in Spain
Catarina Goulão, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Miguel Lagos, Dan-Olof Rooth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15950
Language Proficiency and Hiring of Immigrants: Evidence from a New Field Experimental Approach
Magnus Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson, Dan-Olof Rooth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15945
Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors
Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth, Anders Stenberg
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 133–173
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13508
Long-Run Returns to Field of Study in Secondary School
Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth, Anders Stenberg
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 351-382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11759
Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Magnus Carlsson, Gordon B. Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204, 104533
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11323
Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams
Gordon B. Dahl, Andreas Kotsadam, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136(2), 987–1030.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11285
Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?
Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco, Dan-Olof Rooth
revised version published as 'Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle - Evidence from field experiments.' in: Applied Economics, 2018, 50 (24), 2652 - 2663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11284
Neighborhood Signaling Effects, Commuting Time, and Employment: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Magnus Carlsson, Abdulaziz Abrar Reshid, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (4), 534-549.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11234
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
Jesper Alex-Petersen, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (2), 876-908
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