Per Johansson
Professor at Department of Statistics
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 547 10 03
- E-mail:
- per.johansson@statistik.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum (plan 3)
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Per Johansson’s research interest is in causal inferences, broadly defined. He has published in journals such as the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Economic Journal and Journal of health economics. He is a co-opted member the Prize Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Publications
Selection of publications
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Proxy variables and nonparametric identification of causal effects
Part of Economics Letters, p. 152-154, 2017
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Absenteeism, Gender and the Morbidity–Mortality Paradox
Part of Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England), p. 440-462, 2017
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Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment
Part of Economic Journal, p. 363-392, 2017
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Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay
Part of Journal of Labor Economics, p. 545-579, 2016
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Kan vi jobba tills vi blir 75?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, 2016
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Onyanserad kritik av rehabiliteringsgarantin
Part of Läkartidningen, 2016
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Privatization and quality: Evidence from elderly care in Sweden
Part of Journal of Health Economics, p. 109-119, 2016
- DOI for Privatization and quality: Evidence from elderly care in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Privatization and quality: Evidence from elderly care in Sweden
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Sjukskrivningarnas anatomi: en ESO-rapport om drivkrafterna i sjukförsäkringssystemet
2016
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Är en höjning av pensionsåldern ensidigt positiv?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, 2015
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Health, Work Capacity and Retirement in Sweden
Part of Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015
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Screening Stringency in the Disability Insurance Program
Part of The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, p. 873-891, 2014
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Testing for nonparametric identification of causal effects in the presence of a quasi-instrument
Part of Journal of Causal Inference, p. 187-199, 2014
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Hur har portvaktsfunktionen i förtidspensionssystemet förändrats över tid?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 17-27, 2014
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Hur har portvaktsfunktionen i förtidspensionssystemetförändrats över tid?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 17-27, 2014
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Cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol policies
Part of Journal of Health Economics, p. 125-136, 2014
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Pathways to Retirement and the Role of Financial Incentives in Sweden
Part of Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014
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Social stratification and out-of-school learning
Part of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, p. 679-701, 2013
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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings?: Evidence from a social experiment
Part of Empirical Economics, p. 1673-1695, 2013
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Social Behaviour in Work Absence
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Economics, p. 995-1019, 2013
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Vad är värst - dålig hälsa, utländsk bakgrund eller 55+?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 14-26, 2013
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Effects of eligibility screening in the sickness insurance: Evidence from a field experiment
Part of Labour Economics, p. 48-56, 2013
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Gränshandel med alkohol och dess effekter på hälsa
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 48-52, 2013
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Tidiga insatser för sjukskrivna – rätt medicin för lägre sjukfrånvaro?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 28-36, 2013
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Rehabiliteringsgarantins effekter på hälsa och sjukfrånvaro
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 62-70, 2013
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Höjd metodkunskap viktigare än experiment
Part of Läkatidningen, 2013
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Hälsan hos nybeviljade förtidspensionärer över tid
2013
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Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program
Part of Journal of Health Economics, p. 617-629, 2012
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Part of Evaluation review, p. 323-345, 2012
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The medical doctors as gatekeepers in the sickness insurance?
Part of Applied Economics, p. 3615-3625, 2012
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What is the right profile for getting a job?: A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process
2012
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Virtues of SIN: Can Intensified Public Efforts Help Disadvantaged Immigrants?
Part of Evaluation review, p. 399-427, 2011
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Foreign ownership and investment: do firms locate investments close to the headquarter?
Part of Review of World Economics, p. 621-642, 2011
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Can we buy time? Evaluation of the Swedish government's grant to remediation of contaminated sites
Part of Journal of Environmental Management, p. 1303-1313, 2011
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Arbetslivsinriktad rehabilitering
2010
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Välja fritt och välja rätt: drivkrafter för rationella utbildningsval
2008
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Samverkan i Resursteam: effekter på organisation, hälsa och sjukskrivning
2008
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Påverkas individen av omgivningens sjukfrånvaro?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 44-53, 2008
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Graphical diagnostics of endogeneity
Part of Advances in Econometrics, p. 149-168, 2008
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Part of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , p. 554-555, 2007
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Exogeneity in Structural Equation Models
Part of Journal of Econometrics, p. 527-543, 2006
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Latent Variables in a Travel Mode Choice Model: Attitudinal and Behavioural Indicator Variables
2005
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Kan anställningsstöd minska arbetslösheten?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 6-16, 2005
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Moral hazard and sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Sweden
Part of Journal of Public Economics, p. 1879-1890, 2005
-
Exogeneity in Structural Equation Models
Part of Journal of Econometrics., 2005
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Monitoring sickness insurance claimants: Evidence from a social experi-ment,
2005
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Hur påverkar kravet på läkarintyg sjukfrånvaron? Erfarenheter från ett soci-alt experiment
2005
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Part of Swedish Economic Policy Review, p. 145-149, 2004
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Economic Incentives and Gender Differences in Work Absence Behavior
Part of Swedish Economic Policy Review, p. 33-63, 2004
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An Economic Analysis of Track Maintenance Costs
Part of Transport Policy, p. 277-286, 2004
-
Assessing the effects of a compulsory sickness insurance on worker absenteeism
Part of The Journal of human resources, p. 381-409, 2002
-
Varför lyckades det nationella IT-programmet, Swit?: en jämförelse mellan två arbetssätt
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 293-302, 2001
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Part of Computational statistics (Zeitschrift), p. 485-511, 2000
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A houshold model for work absence
Part of Applied Economics, p. 1493-1503, 1998
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Sjukförsäkringen ur ett genusperspektiv
Part of Välfärdens Genusansikte, Statens offentliga utredningar, 1998
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Count data regression using series expansions with applications
Part of Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England), p. 203-223, 1997
-
The value of travel time: an empirical study using repeated samples of non-business trips
Part of Tourism Economics, p. 353-368, 1996
-
Do economic incentives affect work absence?: Empirical evidence using Swedish micro data
Part of Journal of Public Economics, p. 195-218, 1996
-
Panel data regression for counts
Part of Statistical papers, p. 191-213, 1996
-
Speed limitation and motorway road casualties: a time series count data regression approach
Part of Accident Analysis and Preventation, p. 73-87, 1996
-
Tests for serial correlation and overdispersion in a count data regression model
Part of Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, p. 153-164, 1995
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Time series count data regression
Part of Communications in Statistics, p. 2907-2925, 1994
Recent publications
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Part of Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England), p. 88-107, 2026
- DOI for Earnings Expectations and Educational Sorting: An Ex-Ante Perspective on Returns to University Education
- Download full text (pdf) of Earnings Expectations and Educational Sorting: An Ex-Ante Perspective on Returns to University Education
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Regressionsanalys med R och Python: introduktion och fördjupning
Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
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Part of Research on social work practice, 2025
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Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration
Part of Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, p. 8-30, 2025
- DOI for Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration
- Download full text (pdf) of Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration
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Misconceptions Hinder the Progress of Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Treatment
Part of Journal of Pain, p. 1108-1109, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England), p. 88-107, 2026
- DOI for Earnings Expectations and Educational Sorting: An Ex-Ante Perspective on Returns to University Education
- Download full text (pdf) of Earnings Expectations and Educational Sorting: An Ex-Ante Perspective on Returns to University Education
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Part of Research on social work practice, 2025
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Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration
Part of Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, p. 8-30, 2025
- DOI for Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration
- Download full text (pdf) of Social security and retirement around the world: lessons from a long-term collaboration
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Misconceptions Hinder the Progress of Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Treatment
Part of Journal of Pain, p. 1108-1109, 2024
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2024
- DOI for Novel hormonal therapy versus standard of care: a registry-based comparative effectiveness evaluation for mCRPC-patients
- Download full text (pdf) of Novel hormonal therapy versus standard of care: a registry-based comparative effectiveness evaluation for mCRPC-patients
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Is Fisher inference inferior to Neyman inference for policy analysis?
Part of Statistical papers, p. 3425-3445, 2024
- DOI for Is Fisher inference inferior to Neyman inference for policy analysis?
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Part of Journal of Pain, p. 2003-2013, 2023
- DOI for Sickness Absence and Disability Pension Among Patients With Chronic Pain in Interdisciplinary Treatment or Unspecified Interventions
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2023
- DOI for Causal inferences and real-world evidence: A comparative effectiveness evaluation of abiraterone acetate against enzalutamide
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Part of Journal of Public Economics, 2023
- DOI for The consequences of the Swedish rent control system on labor income: Evidence from a randomized apartment lottery
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Model-based Bayesian inference under computer assisted balance-improving designs
Part of Statistics in Medicine, p. 4245-4265, 2022
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Rerandomization: A complement or substitute for stratification in randomized experiments?
Part of Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, p. 43-58, 2022
- DOI for Rerandomization: A complement or substitute for stratification in randomized experiments?
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Inference in Experiments Conditional on Observed Imbalances in Covariates
Part of American Statistician, p. 394-404, 2022
- DOI for Inference in Experiments Conditional on Observed Imbalances in Covariates
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Part of BMJ Open, 2021
- DOI for Study protocol for a comparative effectiveness evaluation of abiraterone acetate against enzalutamide: a longitudinal study based on Swedish administrative registers
- Download full text (pdf) of Study protocol for a comparative effectiveness evaluation of abiraterone acetate against enzalutamide: a longitudinal study based on Swedish administrative registers
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On optimal rerandomization designs
Part of Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series B-statistical Methodology, p. 395-403, 2021
- DOI for On optimal rerandomization designs
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Sick of family responsibilities?
Part of Empirical Economics, p. 777-814, 2020
- DOI for Sick of family responsibilities?
- Download full text (pdf) of Sick of family responsibilities?
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Rerandomization Strategies for Balancing Covariates Using Pre-Experimental Longitudinal Data
Part of Journal of Computational And Graphical Statistics, p. 798-813, 2020
- DOI for Rerandomization Strategies for Balancing Covariates Using Pre-Experimental Longitudinal Data
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The Impact of CBT on Sick Leave and Health
Part of Evaluation review, p. 185-217, 2020
- DOI for The Impact of CBT on Sick Leave and Health
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Part of BMJ Open, 2019
- DOI for Sex differences in sickness absence and the morbidity-mortality paradox: a longitudinal study using Swedish administrative registers
- Download full text (pdf) of Sex differences in sickness absence and the morbidity-mortality paradox: a longitudinal study using Swedish administrative registers
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Part of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, p. 1561-1585, 2019
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Forward-looking moral hazard in social insurance
Part of Labour Economics, p. 84-98, 2019
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Worker absenteeism: peer influences, monitoring, and job flexibility
Part of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, p. 605-621, 2019
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Economic status, air quality, and child health: Evidence from inversion episodes
Part of Journal of Health Economics, p. 220-232, 2018
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Part of Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, p. 893-904, 2018
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Proxy variables and nonparametric identification of causal effects
Part of Economics Letters, p. 152-154, 2017
-
What is the right profile for getting a job?: A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process
Part of Empirical Economics, p. 803-826, 2017
- DOI for What is the right profile for getting a job?: A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process
- Download full text (pdf) of What is the right profile for getting a job?: A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process
-
Absenteeism, Gender and the Morbidity–Mortality Paradox
Part of Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England), p. 440-462, 2017
-
Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment
Part of Economic Journal, p. 363-392, 2017
-
Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay
Part of Journal of Labor Economics, p. 545-579, 2016
-
Kan vi jobba tills vi blir 75?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, 2016
-
Onyanserad kritik av rehabiliteringsgarantin
Part of Läkartidningen, 2016
-
Privatization and quality: Evidence from elderly care in Sweden
Part of Journal of Health Economics, p. 109-119, 2016
- DOI for Privatization and quality: Evidence from elderly care in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Privatization and quality: Evidence from elderly care in Sweden
-
Is an early retirement offer good for your health?: Quasi-experimental evidence from the army
Part of Journal of Health Economics, p. 274-285, 2015
-
Är en höjning av pensionsåldern ensidigt positiv?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, 2015
-
Screening Stringency in the Disability Insurance Program
Part of The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, p. 873-891, 2014
-
Testing for nonparametric identification of causal effects in the presence of a quasi-instrument
Part of Journal of Causal Inference, p. 187-199, 2014
-
Hur har portvaktsfunktionen i förtidspensionssystemet förändrats över tid?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 17-27, 2014
-
Hur har portvaktsfunktionen i förtidspensionssystemetförändrats över tid?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 17-27, 2014
-
Cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol policies
Part of Journal of Health Economics, p. 125-136, 2014
-
Social stratification and out-of-school learning
Part of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, p. 679-701, 2013
-
Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings?: Evidence from a social experiment
Part of Empirical Economics, p. 1673-1695, 2013
-
Social Behaviour in Work Absence
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Economics, p. 995-1019, 2013
-
Vad är värst - dålig hälsa, utländsk bakgrund eller 55+?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 14-26, 2013
-
Effects of eligibility screening in the sickness insurance: Evidence from a field experiment
Part of Labour Economics, p. 48-56, 2013
-
Gränshandel med alkohol och dess effekter på hälsa
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 48-52, 2013
-
Tidiga insatser för sjukskrivna – rätt medicin för lägre sjukfrånvaro?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 28-36, 2013
-
Rehabiliteringsgarantins effekter på hälsa och sjukfrånvaro
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 62-70, 2013
-
Höjd metodkunskap viktigare än experiment
Part of Läkatidningen, 2013
-
Income inequality and health: Lessons from a refugee residential assignment program
Part of Journal of Health Economics, p. 617-629, 2012
-
Part of Evaluation review, p. 323-345, 2012
-
The medical doctors as gatekeepers in the sickness insurance?
Part of Applied Economics, p. 3615-3625, 2012
-
Do you want your child to have a certified teacher?
Part of Economics of Education Review, p. 65-78, 2011
-
Can we buy time? Evaluation of the Swedish government's grant to remediation of contaminated sites.
Part of Journal of Environmental Management, p. 1303-1313, 2011
-
Virtues of SIN: Can Intensified Public Efforts Help Disadvantaged Immigrants?
Part of Evaluation review, p. 399-427, 2011
-
Foreign ownership and investment: do firms locate investments close to the headquarter?
Part of Review of World Economics, p. 621-642, 2011
-
Can we buy time? Evaluation of the Swedish government's grant to remediation of contaminated sites
Part of Journal of Environmental Management, p. 1303-1313, 2011
-
Part of Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, p. 2122-2137, 2010
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Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?
Part of Journal of the European Economic Association, p. 583-594, 2009
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Part of Empirical Economics, p. 411-434, 2009
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Part of Labour Economics, p. 350-369, 2008
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Dynamic Treatment Assignment: The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data
Part of Journal of business & economic statistics, p. 435-445, 2008
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Påverkas individen av omgivningens sjukfrånvaro?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 44-53, 2008
-
Graphical diagnostics of endogeneity
Part of Advances in Econometrics, p. 149-168, 2008
-
Part of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , p. 554-555, 2007
-
Exogeneity in Structural Equation Models
Part of Journal of Econometrics, p. 527-543, 2006
-
Kan anställningsstöd minska arbetslösheten?
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 6-16, 2005
-
Moral hazard and sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Sweden
Part of Journal of Public Economics, p. 1879-1890, 2005
-
Exogeneity in Structural Equation Models
Part of Journal of Econometrics., 2005
-
Part of Swedish Economic Policy Review, p. 145-149, 2004
-
Economic Incentives and Gender Differences in Work Absence Behavior
Part of Swedish Economic Policy Review, p. 33-63, 2004
-
An Economic Analysis of Track Maintenance Costs
Part of Transport Policy, p. 277-286, 2004
-
Assessing the effects of a compulsory sickness insurance on worker absenteeism
Part of The Journal of human resources, p. 381-409, 2002
-
Varför lyckades det nationella IT-programmet, Swit?: en jämförelse mellan två arbetssätt
Part of Ekonomisk Debatt, p. 293-302, 2001
-
Part of Computational statistics (Zeitschrift), p. 485-511, 2000
-
A houshold model for work absence
Part of Applied Economics, p. 1493-1503, 1998
-
Count data regression using series expansions with applications
Part of Journal of applied econometrics (Chichester, England), p. 203-223, 1997
-
The value of travel time: an empirical study using repeated samples of non-business trips
Part of Tourism Economics, p. 353-368, 1996
-
Do economic incentives affect work absence?: Empirical evidence using Swedish micro data
Part of Journal of Public Economics, p. 195-218, 1996
-
Panel data regression for counts
Part of Statistical papers, p. 191-213, 1996
-
Speed limitation and motorway road casualties: a time series count data regression approach
Part of Accident Analysis and Preventation, p. 73-87, 1996
-
Tests for serial correlation and overdispersion in a count data regression model
Part of Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, p. 153-164, 1995
-
Time series count data regression
Part of Communications in Statistics, p. 2907-2925, 1994
Books
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Regressionsanalys med R och Python: introduktion och fördjupning
Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
Chapters in book
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Health, Work Capacity and Retirement in Sweden
Part of Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015
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Pathways to Retirement and the Role of Financial Incentives in Sweden
Part of Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014
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Sjukförsäkringen ur ett genusperspektiv
Part of Välfärdens Genusansikte, Statens offentliga utredningar, 1998
Manuscripts (preprints)
Reports
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On optimal re-randomization designs
2019
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A Comparison of Methods of Inference in Randomized Experiments from a Restricted Set of Allocations
2019
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Asymptotic Inference for Optimal Re-Randomization Designs
2019
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Re-randomization: A complement or substitute for stratification in randomized experiments?
2019
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Re-randomization strategies for balancing covariates using pre-experimental longitudinal data
2019
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Sjukskrivningarnas anatomi: en ESO-rapport om drivkrafterna i sjukförsäkringssystemet
2016
-
Hälsan hos nybeviljade förtidspensionärer över tid
2013
-
What is the right profile for getting a job?: A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process
2012
-
Arbetslivsinriktad rehabilitering
2010
-
Välja fritt och välja rätt: drivkrafter för rationella utbildningsval
2008
-
Samverkan i Resursteam: effekter på organisation, hälsa och sjukskrivning
2008
-
Latent Variables in a Travel Mode Choice Model: Attitudinal and Behavioural Indicator Variables
2005
-
Monitoring sickness insurance claimants: Evidence from a social experi-ment,
2005
-
Hur påverkar kravet på läkarintyg sjukfrånvaron? Erfarenheter från ett soci-alt experiment
2005