Alexander Willén

Working Papers  (Email for latest version)

Building Bridges and Widening Gaps: Wage Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions 

     Revise and Resubmit, The Review of Economics and Statistics

     Also published as IZA Discussion Paper No. 12885 (2020)

     With Aline Butikofer and Katrine Løken

When Parents Decide: Gender Differences in Competitiveness 

     Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy

     With Jonas Tungodden

Monopsony, Skills, and Labor Market Concentration

     Also published as CEPR Discussion Paper 15412  (2020)

     With Sam Dodini, Michael Lovenheim, and Kjell Salvanes

Postpartum Job Loss: Transitory Effect on Mothers, Long-run Damage to Children 

     Also published as NHH Discussion Paper 2020/22

     With Barton Willage

Understanding the Decline in Private Sector Unionization: A Skill-Based Approach

     Also published as NHH Discussion Paper 2021/7

     With Sam Dodini and Michael Lovenheim

The Effect of Negative Income Shocks on Pensioners 

     Also published as IFAU Working paper 2021/7

     With Julian Johnsen

Published Papers

Interactions in Public Policies: Spousal Responses and Program Spillovers of Welfare Reforms

     Accepted, The Economic Journal

     Also published as NHH Discussion Paper No. 2020/20

     With Julian Johnsen and Kjell Vaage

The Effect of Teacher Strikes on Parents 

     Accepted, Journal of Development Economics

     Also published as CEDLAS Working Paper No. 2019:243

     With David Jaume

Decentralization of Wage Determination: Evidence From A National Teacher Reform

     Accepted, Journal of Public Economics

     Also published as IFAU Working Paper No. 2019:17

Can Female Doctors Cure the Gender STEMM Gap? Evidence from Randomly Assigned GPs

     Accepted, The Review of Economics and Statistics

     Also published as NHH Discussion Paper 2019/18

     With Julie Riise and Barton Willage

Culture and gender allocation of tasks: source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants

     The Review of Economics of the Household (2020), v.18(4)

     Also published as NBER Working Paper No. 26931 (2020)

     With Fran Blau, Matthew Comey, Amanda Eng, Pamela Meyerhofer, and Lawrence Kahn