Inequality & human capital
Exposure to Inequality, Human Capital Investment, and Labor Market Outcomes
How does exposure to economic inequality while growing up shape human-capital investment and later labor-market outcomes?
Read paper →Jan Bietenbeck
Associate Professor of Economics at Lund University
CESifo · DIW Berlin · IZA · RFBerlin
I study how public policies, institutions, and social environments shape economic outcomes. My research focuses on questions in labor, education, and health, using quasi-experimental methods and large-scale survey and administrative data.
Featured research
See all research →Classmates & motivation
Do Motivated Classmates Matter for Educational Success?
How does classmates' academic motivation affect students' own educational success?
Read paper →Publicly funded, privately run schools
Autonomous Schools, Achievement, and Segregation
How does the expansion of publicly funded, privately run schools affect achievement, achievement gaps, and segregation?
Read paper →Recent highlights
2026
Cultural Origins of Preventive Care Utilization published in the
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
May 2026
Autonomous Schools, Achievement, and Segregation accepted for publication in ILR Review
Oct. 2025
Named Research Fellow at RFBerlin
July 2025
Best Reviewer Award, Labour Economics
May 2025
Awarded new research funding for work on the long-term consequences of intellectual disability diagnosis and special-needs education from the Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs stiftelse and the Crafoord Foundation