Dear colleagues, We hereby invite you to join our upcoming Economics of Inequality Research Seminar<https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar> at WU Vienna. Ylva Moberg<https://ylvamoberg.com/> (SOFI) will present the paper: Changing legal gender with or without mandated sterilization - Impacts on transgender health and earnings. Co-Authors: Rinni Norlinder, J. Lucas Tilley, and Emma von Essen Date and Time: Monday, November 25; 3.00 p.m. Location: WU Vienna, D4 - D4.0.127<https://campus.wu.ac.at/?q=D4.0.127>. Abstract Until 2013, Sweden required transgender people to undergo sterilizing surgery before changing their legal gender. We analyze whether the removal of this requirement led to an increase in the number of people changing legal gender, and if dropping the requirement had an impact on health and earnings among those who did so. Our analysis uses population-wide administrative data from 2006 to 2020, including information on legal gender changes, medical records, and socioeconomic traits. We find that 3-4 times as many people changed legal gender, and 30% of trans women and 55% of trans men chose not to have surgery within 5 years when it was no longer mandated. We also find positive effects on earnings growth and a lower rate of sick leave. Please register your participation here<https://www.wu.ac.at/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar/registration-moberg>. Best regards, Jan Gromadzki Jan Gromadzki he/him Assistant Professor Vienna University of Economics and Business Department of Economics Research Institute Economics of Inequality INEQ Building D4 | 2.175 jan.gromadzki@wu.ac.at<mailto:jan.gromadzki@wu.ac.at> https://www.jgromadzki.com/