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e-mail: bjorn.hinnerich@ne.su.se

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Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich is currently a Postdoc at the Department of Economics at Stockholm University. He is also affiliated to School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus (e-mail: btyrefors@econ.au.dk). He received his PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics in December 2007 and holds MSc in economics also from SSE. His research areas of interest are in Political and Labor Economics and Applied Econometrics. His dissertation work focused on how institutions shape policy using quasi-experimental methods.  He is currently working on projects dealing with political economics, discrimination, education and economics of crime.

Publications

Do Merging Local Governments Free Ride on Their Counterparts When Facing Boundary Reform. Journal of Public Economics, 93 , pp. 721-728, 2009

Are Boys Discriminated in Swedish High Schools ?  (with Erik Höglin and Magnus Johannesson.) Economics of Education Review, 30, pp. 682–690, 2011.  (WP-version)

Gender and ethnic discrimination in the rental housing market of Stockholm: a field experiment ( With Ragnar Bengtsson and Ellis Iverman.) Applied Economics Letters, 19 , pp. 1-5, 2012. (WP-version)