Anders Bjorklund

Reversal of motor impairments in parkinsonian rats by continuous intrastriatal delivery of L-dopa using rAAV-mediated gene transfer. (2002)

Kirik, Deniz, Georgievska, Biljana, Burger, Corinna, Winkler, Christian, Muzyczka, Nicholas, Mandel, Ronald J, ...

Intrastriatal delivery of the tyrosine hydroxylase gene by viral vectors is being explored as a tool for local delivery of L-dopa in animals with lesions of the nigrostriatal pathway. The functional...

The inheritance of inequality (2002)

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Anders Bjorklund, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Bradford Delong, Williams Dickens, ...

People differ markedly in their views concerning the appropriate role of government in reducing economic inequality. Self-interest and differences in values explain part of the conflict over...

Cell and Tissue Transplantation into the Adult Brain. Volume 495. (1998)

Azmitia, Efrain C., Bjorklund, Anders

The objective is to address two important aspects of research in adult animals: 1) cellular and molecular mechanism and 2) clinical application to injury and neurodegenerative diseases. The symposium...

Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti, Gary Solon

This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we...

The Output of the Swedish Education Sector.

Ahlroth, Sofia, Bjorklund, Anders, Forslund, Anders

The output of the Swedish education sector is defines as the addition to lifetime incomes generated by the schooling system. Using cross-sectional information on wages, employment rates, working...

A Comparison between Actual Distributions of Annual and Lifetime Income: Sweden 1951-89.

Bjorklund, Anders

This paper uses register data on tax assessed income from 1951 to 1989 for a representative sample of Swedish men in order to compare the distributions of annual income and 'lifetime' income. It is...

The Estimation of Wage Gains and Welfare Gains in Self-selection.

Bjorklund, Anders, Moffitt, Robert

The authors modify the basic self-sele ction model for the effects ofeducation, training, unions, and other activities on wages, by including "heterogeneity of rewards" to the activity-i.e., diffe...

Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, The Swedish Way

Anders Bjorklund, Richard B. Freeman

Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely...

Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?

James Albrecht, Anders Bjorklund, Susan Vroman

Using 1998 data, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail. We interpret this as a strong glass ceiling effect. We...