Per Johansson

Research Fellow

Uppsala University

per.johansson@ifau.uu.se

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Research Interests

Per Johansson is professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics, a researcher at the Institute for Labour Market and Education Policy Evalution, IFAU and a scientific advisor at the Inspectorat of Social Insurence, ISF. Per holds a Philosophy Licentiate (1992) from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Ph. D. (1993) from Umeå University. In 2002 - 20015 he was a professor in econometrices at the department of economics uppsala university.
His research deals with the analysis of micro data in general (both methodological and applied). The applied work has mainly been in labor economics and health (e.g. effects of income security systems on labor market behavior, program evaluation, and economics of education) but he has also done research in transport economics. Publications include papers in Journal of Econometrics, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Business and Economic and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal Labor Economics,Journal of Applied Economerics, Journal of Royal of Statistcs Society, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources and Transportation Research.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2009.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10247

On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models

Per Johansson, Myoung-jae Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10057

Proxy Variables and Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects

Xavier de Luna, Philip Fowler, Per Johansson

published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 150, 152–154

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8260

Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health

Daniel Hallberg, Per Johansson, Malin Josephson

published as 'Is an early retirement offer good for your health? Quasi-experimental evidence from the army' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 274–285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8133

Gender Differences in Shirking: Monitoring or Social Preferences? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Per Johansson, Arizo Karimi, Peter Nilsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7929

Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes

Jenny Jans, Per Johansson, Peter Nilsson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7480

Gender Differences in Preferences for Health-Related Absences from Work

Daniel Avdic, Per Johansson

published as 'Absenteeism, Gender and the Morbidity–Mortality Paradox' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (2), 440 - 462

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7379

Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities