CURRICULUM VITAE
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I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute for Social Research. I am also a research affiliate at the Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence (CELE) at Stockholm School of Economics, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, and the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS). To download the latest version of my CV, click here.

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Degrees​

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• Ph.D. in Economics, Uppsala University, 2021

• M.Sc. in Economics, Uppsala University, 2013

• B.A. with High Honors in Economics, Oberlin College, 2010

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Research visits​

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• LGBTQ+ Policy Lab, Center for Research on Inequality and Health, January–March 2025
  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
  Host: Kitt Carpenter
   

• Institute for Policy Research, September 2015–June 2016
  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
  Host: David Figlio​

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Journal publications
 

• Moberg, Y., Tilley, J.L., and von Essen, E. (2026) Transgender parents in Sweden: Insights from administrative data. GENUS.
   

• Moberg, Y., Norlinder, R., Tilley, J.L., and von Essen, E. (2025) The end of an impossible choice: Removing infertility as a prerequisite for legal gender recognition. AEA Papers & Proceedings.
   

• Kolk, M., Tilley, J.L., von Essen, E., Moberg, Y., and Burn, I., (2025). The demography of Sweden's transgender population: A research note on changes, patterns, and sociodemographics. Demography.
   

• Tilley, J.L. (2023). School resources, peer inputs, and student outcomes in adult education. Economics of Education Review.
   

• Aalto, A-M., Müller, D., and Tilley, J.L. (2023). From epidemic to pandemic: Effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on high school program choices in Sweden. Labour Economics.

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Awards, scholarships, and grants

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• Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation at Handelsbanken, program grant for Peer gender composition in the school environment and its effect over the life cycle, 450 000 SEK, awarded in May 2026. Program leader. Co-applicant with Demid Getik, Negar Khaliliaraghi and Jan Sauermann.
   

• Swedish Research Council, project grant for When Low Grades Become High Stakes: How Upper-Secondary Eligibility Requirements and Introductory Programs Shape Ineligible Students’ Work and Welfare​. Project leader. Co-applicant with Iman Dadgar and Ema Demir. 6 598 483 SEK, awarded in November 2025. Also awarded 4 916 000 SEK from FORTE, but declined due to overlapping content.
   

• FORTE, project grant for Transgender Youths’ Labor Market Entry and Exclusion: Hormones, Legal Gender Recognition, and Social Vulnerability. Co-applicant together with Ylva Moberg (main applicant) and Emma von Essen (co-applicant). 4 995 000 SEK, awarded in October 2025.
   

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, research grant for Transgender youth in Sweden: Insights on demographic changes, healthcare patterns, and educational experiences from two decades of population-based data, 128 600 SEK, awarded in October 2024.
   

• Swedish Research Council, project grant for The labor market and educational effects of gender transitioning in Sweden. Co-applicant with Emma von Essen (main applicant) and Ylva Moberg, 4 535 000 SEK, awarded in November 2022.
   

• Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation at Handelsbanken, Wallander scholarship for postdoctoral research in economics, 1 725 000 SEK, awarded in December 2021.
   

• Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), project grant for Peer gender composition and student outcomes in high school. Co-applicant with Aino-Maija Aalto (main applicant), 600 000 SEK, awarded in December 2020.
   

• Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation at Handelsbanken, Hedelius scholarship for research visit at Northwestern University, 485 000 SEK, awarded in December 2014.
   

• Oberlin College, Department of Economics, Comfort Starr Prize in Economics, awarded in May 2010 for meritorious scholarly work throughout undergraduate studies.

 

External seminars and conferences
 

• 2026: EEA Congress 2026 (scheduled—Dublin, Ireland); 9th Swedish Conference in Economics (scheduled—Jönköping, Sweden)
   

• 2025: GSA 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting (Boston, MA); APHA 2025 Annual Meeting (Washington DC); EEA Congress 2025 (Bordeaux); LGBTQ+ Policy Lab Work-In-Progress Session (Vanderbilt University); ASSA 2025 (San Francisco, CA)
   

• 2024: Economics Seminar (Masaryk University); SUDA Demographic Colloquium Series (Stockholm University); FORTE Research Network - LGBTQ+ Workshop (Stockholm University); SOLE 2024 (Portland, OR)
   

• 2023: 5th Stockholm-Uppsala Education Economics Workshop (IFAU); EALE 2023 (Prague); Interdisciplinary Workshop on Inequalities in Working Life (UCLS and Uppsala University)
   

• 2022: 3rd IAB-LISER Conference: Labour markets during and after the COVID-19 pandemic (Institute for Employment Research, Germany)
   

• 2021: Multi-disciplinary Workshop on Life-changing Transitions in the LGBTQ+ Community (Stockholm University); EEA/ESEM Annual Congress (virtual)
   

• 2020: AEA Economics of LGBTQ+ Individuals Virtual Seminar Series (virtual); UCLS Annual Meeting Flash Talks; SUDSWEC Conference (Uppsala University)

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Teaching
 

• Guest lecture in The Economics of Work and Family (Bachelor's level), September 2024
  Department of Economics, Amherst College
   

• Teaching assistant in Mathematical Methods (Ph.D. level), 2014–2017
  Department of Economics, Uppsala University

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Professional activities and services

Refereeing:

Contemporary Economic Policy, Economics of Education Review (3x), Education Economics, GENUS, Fores, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Labour Economics, The Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Sociology of Education

Other:

• Co-organizer of the AME/GAINS seminar series, SOFI, Stockholm Uni., 2024–2025

• Co-editor of SOFI Working Papers in Labour Economics, 2023–2025

• Organizing Committee for UCLS Workshop on Inequalities in Working Life, 2023–2025

• Co-editor of newsletter for European Committee for LGBTQ+ Economists, 2022–present

• Member of Steering Committee, European Committee for LGBTQ+ Economists, 2021–present

• Organizer of Brown Bag Seminar Series, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2017–2020

• Board member of PhD Student Association, Department of Economics, Uppsala University,  2013–2020

• PhD representative for Work Environment Group, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2018–2020

• Vice president of Nationalekonomiska föreningen, 2014–2017

• Member of Uppsala University team at Econometric Games in Amsterdam, 2013

• President of Pareto Uppsala, non-profit organization, 2013

• Board member of Pareto Uppsala, non-profit organization, 2012

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