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Ulf Gerdtham

Lund University - Faculty of Medicine

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SE-221 00 Lund

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Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence from the OECD

IZA Discussion Paper No. 654
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2021
Ulf Gerdtham and Christopher J. Ruhm
Lund University - Faculty of Medicine and University of Virginia - Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
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business cycles, mortality, health

Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence from the OECD

NBER Working Paper No. w9357
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Dec 2002 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Ulf Gerdtham and Christopher J. Ruhm
Lund University - Faculty of Medicine and University of Virginia - Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
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Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence from the OECD

Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 298-319
Posted: 29 Nov 2006
Ulf Gerdtham and Christopher J. Ruhm
Lund University - Faculty of Medicine and University of Virginia - Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

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Business cycles, Mortality, Health

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Equity in Swedish Health Care Reconsidered: New Results Based on the Finite Mixture Model

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Aug 2000
Ulf Gerdtham and Pravin K. Trivedi
Lund University - Faculty of Medicine and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) - Department of Economics
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equity, health care, count data, latent class models, finite mixture models

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Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10809
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
University of Groningen, Lund University - Faculty of Medicine, University of Bristol, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Lund University, Lund University - Center for Primary Health Care Research and Lund University - Center for Primary Health Care Research
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aggregation, income, death, recession, health, unemployment

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Put a Bet on it: Can Self-Funded Commitment Contracts Curb Fitness Procrastination?

Number of pages: 119 Posted: 10 May 2024
University of Zurich, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Department of Economics, Lund University and Lund University - Faculty of Medicine
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Gym attendance, Incentives, Commitment contract, Self-control

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Age, Period and Cohort Effects on Socioeconomic Inequalities in BMI: A Synthetic Cohort Study of repeated cross-sectional surveys among Portuguese Adults (1998–2019)

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 May 2026
Universidade do Porto - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Lund University - Faculty of Medicine and Lund University - Faculty of Medicine
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body mass index, age-period-cohort analysis, synthetic cohorts, socioeconomic inequalities, trajectories, monitoring

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Does Socioeconomic Health Inequality Change as the Population Ages? Evidence from Swedish Panel Data

iHEA 2007 6th World Congress: Explorations in Health Economics Paper
Posted: 20 Jun 2007
Lund University - Faculty of Medicine, Lund University - Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney - School of Public Health and Karolinska Institutet

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aging of population, health inequality, concentration index, decomposition, panel data

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Is Health Really the Link between Alcohol and Wage? - A Study on Alcohol Related Medical Care Costs of Low Alcohol Consumption

iHEA 2007 6th World Congress: Explorations in Health Economics Paper
Posted: 18 Jun 2007
Johan Jarl, Ulf Gerdtham and Klara Hradilova Selin
Lund University, Lund University - Faculty of Medicine and Stockholm University

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Alcohol consumption, Medical care costs, Wages

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Evaluating the Impact of a Targeted Program on Health Utilization and Expenditure in Vietnam Using Quasi-Experimental Methods

iHEA 2007 6th World Congress: Explorations in Health Economics Paper
Posted: 13 Jun 2007
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Lund University - Faculty of Medicine, Boston University - School of Public Health, Institute of Sociology (Vietnam) and Lund University - Faculty of Medicine

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Financial protection, health insurance, health policy

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Variation in Cesarean Section Rates in Sweden - Causes and Economic Consequences

Stockholm School of Economics No.106-3/96
Posted: 01 Oct 1999
Ingemar Eckerlund and Ulf Gerdtham
Stockholm School of Economics and Lund University - Faculty of Medicine

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Equity in Health Care Utilisation: Further Tests Based on Hurdle Models and Swedish Micro Data

Stockholm School of Economics, Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, No 116
Posted: 20 Dec 1998
Ulf Gerdtham
Lund University - Faculty of Medicine

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Redistributive Effects of the Swedish Health Care Financing System

Stockholm School of Economics Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 115
Posted: 28 Jan 1997
Ulf Gerdtham and Gun Sundberg
Lund University - Faculty of Medicine and Uppsala University

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