Biography

Prof. Ulf-Göran Gerdtham

Lunds University, Sweden


Email: [email protected], [email protected]


Qualifications

1991 Ph.D., Linköping University, Sweden

1987 B.A., Högskolan i Örebro, Sweden


Publications (Selected)

  1. Linder, A., Gerdtham, U. G., & Heckley, G. (2025). Adolescent Mental Health: Impact of Introducing Earlier Compulsory School Grades. Health Economics.
  2. Zilling, J., Gerdtham, U. G., Jarl, J., Saha, S., & Persson, S. (2025). The formal care costs of dementia: a longitudinal study using Swedish register data. The European Journal of Health Economics, 26(3), 353-361.
  3. Spika, D., Östervall, L. W., Gerdtham, U., & Wengström, E. (2024). Put a bet on it: Can self-funded commitment contracts curb fitness procrastination?. Journal of Health Economics, 98, 102943.
  4. Asuman, D., Gerdtham, U. G., Alriksson-Schmidt, A. I., Nordin, M., & Jarl, J. (2024). Labour market consequences of an early-onset disability: the case of cerebral palsy. Applied Economics, 56(11), 1309-1326.
  5. Zhang, Y., Gerdtham, U. G., Rydell, H., Lundgren, T., & Jarl, J. (2023). Healthcare costs after kidney transplantation compared to dialysis based on propensity score methods and real world longitudinal register data from Sweden. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 10730.
  6. Linder, A., Nordin, M., Gerdtham, U. G., & Heckley, G. (2023). Grading bias and young adult mental health. Health Economics, 32(3), 675-696.
  7. Dackehag, M., Ellegård, L. M., Gerdtham, U. G., & Nilsson, T. (2023). Macroeconomic fluctuations and individual use of psychotropic medications: evidence from Swedish administrative data. European journal of public health, 33(1), 93-98.
  8. Persson, S., Saha, S., Gerdtham, U. G., Toresson, H., Trépel, D., & Jarl, J. (2022). Healthcare costs of dementia diseases before, during and after diagnosis: Longitudinal analysis of 17 years of Swedish register data. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 18(12), 2560-2569.
  9. Müller, V., Gerdtham, U., Alriksson‐Schmidt, A., & Jarl, J. (2022). Parental decisions to divorce and have additional children among families with children with cerebral palsy: Evidence from Swedish longitudinal and administrative data. Health economics, 31(10), 2170-2186.
  10. Saha, S., Gerdtham, U., Bläckberg, M., Kollberg, P., & Liedberg, F. (2022). Cost effectiveness of the use of prophylactic mesh to prevent parastomal hernia after urinary diversion with an ileal conduit. European Urology Open Science, 40, 9-15.
  11. Teni, F. S., Gerdtham, U. G., Leidl, R., Henriksson, M., Åström, M., Sun, S., & Burström, K. (2022). Inequality and heterogeneity in health-related quality of life: findings based on a large sample of cross-sectional EQ-5D-5L data from the Swedish general population. Quality of Life Research, 31(3), 697-712.
  12. Saha, S., Nordström, J., Scarborough, P., Thunström, L., & Gerdtham, U. G. (2021). In search of an appropriate mix of taxes and subsidies on nutrients and food: a modelling study of the effectiveness on health-related consumption and mortality. Social Science & Medicine, 287, 114388.
  13. Hardardottir, H., Gerdtham, U. G., & Wengström, E. (2021). Parameterizing standard measures of income and health inequality using choice experiments. Health Economics, 30(10), 2531-2546.
  14. Svensson-Björk, R., Saha, S., Acosta, S., Gerdtham, U. G., Hasselmann, J., Asciutto, G., & Zarrouk, M. (2021). Cost-effectiveness analysis of negative pressure wound therapy dressings after open inguinal vascular surgery–The randomised INVIPS-Trial. Journal of Tissue Viability, 30(1), 95-101.
  15. Fischer, M., Gerdtham, U. G., Heckley, G., Karlsson, M., Kjellsson, G., & Nilsson, T. (2021). Education and health: long-run effects of peers, tracking and years. Economic Policy, 36(105), 3-49.
  16. Zhang, Y., Gerdtham, U. G., Rydell, H., & Jarl, J. (2020). Quantifying the treatment effect of kidney transplantation relative to dialysis on survival time: new results based on propensity score weighting and longitudinal observational data from Sweden. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(19), 7318.


Profile Details

WoS ResearcherID: I-6766-2018

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0647-7817

https://www.lusem.lu.se/ulf-gerdtham

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b_Xwss8AAAAJ&hl=sv

http://researchgate.net/profile/Ulf_G_Gerdtham

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