Dan-Olof Rooth
Biographic Data
| ID | 211187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan-Olof Rooth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan-Olof |
| FAMILY NAME | Rooth |
| SIGNATURE | ROOTH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Magnus Carlsson is an Associate Professor at Linnaeus University. Dan-Olof Rooth is a Professor at Linnaeus University. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination: A field experiment
This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of disability and gender shapes employers’ hiring behavior. We use data from a field experiment in which 2,048 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish employers with vacancies. Nondisabled applicants received 33% more callbacks than similarly qualified wheelchair users despite apply…
The health-schooling relationship: Evidence from Swedish twins
Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer, and the Ethnic Wage Gap
In most EU countries, ethnic minorities have lower wages than does the ethnic majority. To what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. The authors examine the role that prejudice plays in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, Sweden. The analysis takes into account the important distinction between average employer attitudes and the attit…
The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
To identify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills, we exploit conditionally random variation in the date Swedish males take a battery of cognitive tests in preparation for military service. We find an extra ten days of school instruction raises scores on crystallized intelligence tests (synonyms and technical comprehension tests) by approximately 1% of a standard deviation, whereas extra nonschool days have almost no effect. In contr…
Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
The stigma associated with long-term unemployment spells could create large inefficiencies in labor markets. While the existing literature points toward large stigma effects, it has proven difficult to estimate causal relationships. Using data from a field experiment, we find that long-term unemployment spells in the past do not matter for employers' hiring decisions, suggesting that subsequent work experience eliminates this negative signal. Nor…
Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings
We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we provide the first evidence of a large adult male labor market penalty for being overweight or obese as a teenager. Second, we replicate this result using data from the United States and the Un…
Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative. This issue has essentially been ignored in the empirical literature until the recent…
Three generations in the New World: Labour market outcomes of Swedish Americans in the USA, 1880–2000
Roughly one million Swedes emigrated to the USA between 1870 and 1920. These emigrants gave rise to over four million individuals with a Swedish ancestry currently living in the USA. This study shows that Swedes have maintained the geographic concentrations chosen by their parents and grandparents. Also, Swedish migrants were on average less educated than the US-born white population, yet their descendants tended to be relatively better educated.…
Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence
Evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data
Shifts in attitudes and labor market discrimination: Swedish experiences after 9-11
Unemployment and earnings for second generation immigrants in Sweden. Ethnic background and parent composition
Modeling female fertility using inflated count data models
Unemployment and earnings for second generation immigrants in Sweden. Ethnic background and parent composition
Shifts in attitudes and labor market discrimination: Swedish experiences after 9-11
Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer, and the Ethnic Wage Gap
In most EU countries, ethnic minorities have lower wages than does the ethnic majority. To what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. The authors examine the role that prejudice plays in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, Sweden. The analysis takes into account the important distinction between average employer attitudes and the attit…
Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings
We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we provide the first evidence of a large adult male labor market penalty for being overweight or obese as a teenager. Second, we replicate this result using data from the United States and the Un…
Modeling female fertility using inflated count data models
Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative. This issue has essentially been ignored in the empirical literature until the recent…
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination: A field experiment
This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of disability and gender shapes employers’ hiring behavior. We use data from a field experiment in which 2,048 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish employers with vacancies. Nondisabled applicants received 33% more callbacks than similarly qualified wheelchair users despite apply…
Modeling female fertility using inflated count data models
Unemployment and earnings for second generation immigrants in Sweden. Ethnic background and parent composition
Shifts in attitudes and labor market discrimination: Swedish experiences after 9-11
Evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data
Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence
Three generations in the New World: Labour market outcomes of Swedish Americans in the USA, 1880–2000
Roughly one million Swedes emigrated to the USA between 1870 and 1920. These emigrants gave rise to over four million individuals with a Swedish ancestry currently living in the USA. This study shows that Swedes have maintained the geographic concentrations chosen by their parents and grandparents. Also, Swedish migrants were on average less educated than the US-born white population, yet their descendants tended to be relatively better educated.…
Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
The stigma associated with long-term unemployment spells could create large inefficiencies in labor markets. While the existing literature points toward large stigma effects, it has proven difficult to estimate causal relationships. Using data from a field experiment, we find that long-term unemployment spells in the past do not matter for employers' hiring decisions, suggesting that subsequent work experience eliminates this negative signal. Nor…
Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings
We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we provide the first evidence of a large adult male labor market penalty for being overweight or obese as a teenager. Second, we replicate this result using data from the United States and the Un…
Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative. This issue has essentially been ignored in the empirical literature until the recent…
The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
To identify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills, we exploit conditionally random variation in the date Swedish males take a battery of cognitive tests in preparation for military service. We find an extra ten days of school instruction raises scores on crystallized intelligence tests (synonyms and technical comprehension tests) by approximately 1% of a standard deviation, whereas extra nonschool days have almost no effect. In contr…
The health-schooling relationship: Evidence from Swedish twins
Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer, and the Ethnic Wage Gap
In most EU countries, ethnic minorities have lower wages than does the ethnic majority. To what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. The authors examine the role that prejudice plays in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, Sweden. The analysis takes into account the important distinction between average employer attitudes and the attit…
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination: A field experiment
This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of disability and gender shapes employers’ hiring behavior. We use data from a field experiment in which 2,048 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish employers with vacancies. Nondisabled applicants received 33% more callbacks than similarly qualified wheelchair users despite apply…
Economics (12 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Labour economics (7 works) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (5 works) · Law (5 works)