I am a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University, Sweden, studying gender affirming care in Sweden, same-sex couples’ transition to parenthood, gender norms in diverse families, and gender equality at work. 

Recent publications

Evertsson, M., Moberg, Y., & M. Van der Vleuten (2025). “Stimulating (in)equality? The earnings penalty in different-sex and female same-sex couples transitioning to parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden”. American Journal of Sociology. Previously circulated under the title “The child penalty in same-sex and different-sex couples in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden”

Moberg, Y., & M. Van der Vleuten (2025). “Splitting the penalty by taking turns? Same-sex mothers’ earnings losses in Norway“. Journal of Marriage and Family.

Kolk, M., Tilley, J.L., von Essen, E., Moberg, Y., & I. Burn, (2025). “The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population: A Research Note on Patterns, Changes, and Sociodemographics“. Demography.

Press coverage: Medical X press, QX, Landets Fria. See also posts on BlueSky, X, and Lindedin.

Moberg, Y., Norlinder, R., Tilley, J.L., & E. von Essen, E., (2025). “The End of an Impossible Choice: Removing Infertility as a Prerequisite for Legal Gender Recognition”. AEA Papers and Proceedings.

Research visits

In January to March 2025 I visited the LGBTQ+ Policy Lab at Vanderbilt University, (Host: Prof. Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter).

In the spring of 2024 I visited NIDI – the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, and the Department of Sociology at Utrecht University (host: Prof. Eva Jaspers)

Ph.D.

I defended my dissertation “Gender, Incentives, and the Division of Labor” in 2017 at Uppsala University, in which I used data from the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU). Read a summary of research at IFAU — including mine — on gender equality in the Swedish labor market (in Swedish).