Selected newspaper publications

Simon Hedlin (2018) “The fight against sex trafficking, The Washington Post, December 6, 2018.

Simon Hedlin (2018) “Paid Parental Leave is a Men’s Issue, Too,” Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, November 28, 2018.

Simon Hedlin (2017) “Mehlman-Orozco, Hedlin: Stop criminalizing victims of sex trafficking,” The Houston Chronicle, January 20, 2017. With Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco, human trafficking expert.

Simon Hedlin (2016) “Three Priorities for the New President,” The New York Times, November 13, 2016.

Simon Hedlin (2016) “Rape is so prevalent because it is misunderstood,” The Washington Post, November 12, 2016.

Simon Hedlin (2016) “Why Legalizing Prostitution May Not Work,” Forbes, October 17, 2016.

Simon Hedlin (2016) “Protect Girls Through Minimum-Age Marriage Laws,” World Policy Journal, July 18, 2016.

Simon Hedlin (2016) “Bernie Sanders Is Taking the Wrong Lessons From Sweden,” TIME, June 6, 2016.

Simon Hedlin (2016) “Is greener always better?” Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2016. With Cass Sunstein, former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Face the Terror Problem Honestly and Firmly,” The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “ISIS’s Slaves and Sex Trafficking,” The Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Sweden’s untouchable issue,” The New York Times, November 29, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Do Long Ballots Offer Too Much Democracy?” The Atlantic, November 3, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Feel guilty: You’ll help society,” The Boston Globe, October 4, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Cash for Clinics: When Economic Incentives May Backfire,” Behavioral Science & Policy, October 1, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Legalize sex work but not sex buyers,” The Press of Atlantic City, September 14, 2015. With Birgitta Ohlsson, a former Cabinet Secretary of the Swedish Government and a current member of the Swedish Parliament.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Legalize sex work but not sex buyers,” The Chronicle, September 1, 2015. With Birgitta Ohlsson, a former Cabinet Secretary of the Swedish Government and a current member of the Swedish Parliament.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Legalize sex work, not sex buyers,” The Seattle Times, August 30, 2015. With Birgitta Ohlsson, a former Cabinet Secretary of the Swedish Government and a current member of the Swedish Parliament.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Men need parental leave just as much as women and kids do,” The Guardian, August 27, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “How we should handle prostitution,” Orlando Sentinel, August 26, 2015. With Birgitta Ohlsson, a former Cabinet Secretary of the Swedish Government and a current member of the Swedish Parliament.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “How we should handle prostitution,” Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2015. With Birgitta Ohlsson, a former Cabinet Secretary of the Swedish Government and a current member of the Swedish Parliament.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Stop sex trafficking by criminalizing buyers,” AlJazeera.com, August 18, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “We should be giving a voice to the sex trafficking victims,” The Sunday Times, August 16, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “It’s a mistake for Amnesty to advocate for the decriminalization of sex buyers,” The Irish Times, August 15, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “The Swedish sex-work model is a success,” The Globe and Mail, Aug. 14, 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Prenatal health and life outcomes: Unequal beginnings,” The Economist, April 4th 2015. With Slavea Chankova, health-care correspondent at The Economist.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “Ethics and the environment: Eco-waverers,” The Economist, February 28th 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2015) “The Big Mac index: Oily and easy,” The Economist, January 24th 2015.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Performance indices: Ranking the rankings,” The Economist, November 8th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “A memoir of gratification: Desire delayed,” The Economist, October 11th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Education reform: A good choice?” Economist.com, October 6th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Big data: Turning the tables,” Economist.com, September 3rd 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Crime and poverty: To have and have not,” The Economist, August 23rd 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “The costs of foreign aid: Cash for conflicts,” Economist.com, August 16th 2014

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Free exchange: Aid to the rescue,” The Economist, August 16th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Women in politics: Treating the fair sex fairly,” The Economist, August 9th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Presidents and growth: Timing is everything,” The Economist, August 9th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Remittances and growth: Gone missing,” Economist.com, August 1st 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Poverty measures: Width, not depth,” Economist.com, July 28th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Britain’s economy: Bigger, not better,” Economist.com, July 25 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Female genital mutilation and child marriage: Progress, but too slow,” The Economist, July 26th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “The Economist explains: Why Swedish men take so much paternity leave,” Economist.com, July 22nd 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Daily chart: Barbaric cuts,” Economist.com, July 22nd 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Economics and ethics: Lying commies,” The Economist, July 19th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Development and entrepreneurship: Business formal,” Economist.com, July 17th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Health and education: They came, they saw, they passed,” Economist.com, July 14th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “The economics of behavior: Time and punishment,” The Economist, July 12th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Guns and the senate: Why Democrats flip-flop on guns,” The Economist, July 12th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Financial literacy: Back to basics,” Economist.com, July 11th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Education and industrialization: The importance of a skilled 1%,” Economist.com, July 8th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Latin America’s middle class: Demography, a friend or a foe?” Economist.com, June 27th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Microcredit: Are borrowers different?” Economist.com, June 20th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Race-blind affirmative action: Identifying the disadvantaged,” Economist.com, June 18th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Nudges: Greased palms and dried fruit,” Economist.com, June 16th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Investing and the weather: Jackpot frost,” The Economist, June 14th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Home advantage in football: The 12th man,” Economist.com, June 13th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Labor market discrimination: (The right sort of) help wanted,” Economist.com, June 11th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Microcredit and poverty alleviation: The experimenters strike back,” Economist.com, June 10th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Targeted university donations: Gift control,” Economist.com, June 8th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Piketty and future inequality: The relationship between saving and growth,” Economist.com, June 4th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Financial knowledge and investment performance: No monkey business?” Economist.com, June 4th 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Debt repayment and small victories: When size matters” Economist.com, June 3rd 2014.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “Positive discrimination cements prejudice,” Svenska Dagbladet, January 1, 2014. In Swedish.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “It’s the freedom, stupid,” Swedish Journal, March 4, 2011. In Swedish.

Simon Hedlin (2014) “After the financial crisis: The market economy’s renaissance,” Swedish Journal, May 14, 2010. In Swedish.