Roger Wahlberg received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2002. His research interests included discrimination, immigrants and their success on the labor market, welfare and labor supply. He published in journals such as Journal of Human Resources and Empirical Economics. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2004.
Roger Wahlberg passed away unexpectedly in November 2011 at the age of 45.