Brown Bag Seminar: Rinni Norlinder
- Date: 19 February 2024, 12:00–13:00
- Location: Ekonomikum, F433
- Type: Seminar
- Contact person: Ricard Grebol
Brown Bag seminars are organized by the doctoral association at the Department of Economics. The seminar is a space where doctoral students can present their ideas at an early stage of the research process.
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Title: "Changing legal gender with or without mandated sterilisation - Impacts on transgender health and earnings"
Researcher: Rinni Norlinder
In 2013, Sweden abolished the requirement to be sterilised before changing legal gender. This paper analyses the impact of the abolishment on the number of people who change legal gender and their labour market and mental health outcomes. We use population-wide administrative data from 2006 to 2020, including information on legal gender changes, medical records and socio-economic characteristics. We find that three to four times as many people changed legal gender immediately after the requirement was abolished, driven by younger people with worse labour market attachment. Approximately 32.6% of trans women and 55.2% of trans men chose not to have surgery when it was not mandated, with negligible impacts on earnings, sick leave or mental health.