Christer Gerdes

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SOFI, Stockholm University

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Christer Gerdes is a post-doc at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, and affiliated to the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS). He received his PhD in economics from Stockholm University in September, 2008. In 2014 he was appointed to docent (associate professor). His research is focused primarily on labor market and welfare state issues relating to ethnicity, migration and labor market evaluation, as well as chess economics. Beside his academic work he is working as analyst at the Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen).

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2010.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9264
A Note on Possible Estimation Bias When Studying Persons with Work Disability in Active Labour Market Programs
Christer Gerdes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8992
Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?
Christer Gerdes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8408
Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden
Christer Gerdes, Eskil Wadensjö
published in: Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Berlin: Springer, 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5862
Chicken or Checkin'? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games
Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5814
Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy
Johan Almenberg, Christer Gerdes
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (17), 1693-1696
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5314
Beauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess
Anna Dreber Almenberg, Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 1-18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5171
Using "Shares" vs. "Log of Shares" in Fixed-Effect Estimations
Christer Gerdes
published in: Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 2011, 54 (1), 1–7
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4793
Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players
Christer Gerdes, Patrik Gränsmark
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 766-775
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4788
Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program
Christer Gerdes
published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2013, 50, 645-666
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3586
The Impact of Immigration on Election Outcomes in Danish Municipalities
Christer Gerdes, Eskil Wadensjö
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