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
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.'
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5990
Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons
Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5946
Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data
Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5804
Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins
Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'Adolescent health and adult labor market outcomes' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 25-40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5803
Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?
Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'The health-schooling relationship: evidence from Swedish twins' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, 1191-1215
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5486
The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
Dan-Olof Rooth, Anders Stenberg
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59 (2), 196-223
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4775
No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4684
Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities
Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 399-409
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4266
The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(1), 141-166.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4140
Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings
Gerard J. van den Berg, Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (6), 1521-1557.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3972
The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'The Power of Media and Changes in Discriminatory Behavior Among Employers' in: Journal of Media Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 98-108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3878
Scientific (Wo)manpower? Gender and the Composition and Earnings of PhDs in Sweden
Anna Amilon, Inga Persson, Dan-Olof Rooth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3873
Implicit Prejudice and Ethnic Minorities: Arab-Muslims in Sweden
Jens Agerström, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 43-55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3811
An Experimental Study of Sex Segregation in the Swedish Labour Market: Is Discrimination the Explanation?
Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'Does Hiring Discrimination Cause Gender Segregation in the Swedish Labor Market?' in: Feminist Economics, 2011, 17 (3), 71-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3810
Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring
Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
revised version published as: "Experimental evidence of discrimination in the hiring of first- and second-generation immigrants", Labour, 2010, 24(3), 263-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3806
Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty?
Martin Nordin, Inga Persson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1047-1059
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3799
Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring
Dan-Olof Rooth
revised version published (with Jens Agerström) as 'The Role of Automatic Obesity Stereotypes in Real Hiring Discrimination ' in: Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011, 96 (4), 790 - 805
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2775
Evidence of Unequal Treatment in Hiring against Obese Applicants: A Field Experiment
Dan-Olof Rooth
revised version published as "Obesity, Attractiveness, and Differential Treatment in Hiring: A Field Experiment" in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(3), 710-735
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2764
Implicit Discrimination in Hiring: Real World Evidence
Dan-Olof Rooth
published as "Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 523-534
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2759
The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?
Martin Nordin, Dan-Olof Rooth
revised version published as 'The Ethnic Employment and Income Gap in Sweden: Is Skill or Labor Market Discrimination the Explanation?' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (3), 487 - 510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2281
Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market Using Experimental Data
Magnus Carlsson, Dan-Olof Rooth
published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (4), 716-729
IZA World of Labor Article
Correspondence testing studies
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