Research fellow at Tinbergen Institute and IZA.

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Selected publications

Lundborg, P., Nilsson, A., Rooth, DO (2013). Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory Schooling Reform.  Forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied.

Lundborg, P., Nystedt, P., Rooth, D. (2013). Height and Earnings. The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills. Forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources.

Lundborg P. (2013) The Health Returns to Education - What Can We Learn from Twins? Journal of Population Economics 26(2):673-701.

Lindeboom M, Lundborg P, van der Klaauw, B. (2010). Assesing the Impact of Obesity on Labor Market Outcomes. Economics and Human Biology 8:309-319.  

Lundborg, P., Andersson, H. (2008). Gender, Risk Perceptions, and Smoking Behaviour. Journal of Health Economics 27: 1299-1311.

Bolin, K., Lindgren, B., Lundborg, P. (2008). Your Next of Kin or Your Own Career? Caring and Working among the 50+ of Europe. Journal of Health Economics 27: 718-738.

Bolin, K., Lindgren, B., Lundborg, P. (2008). Informal and Formal Care among the Elderly of Europe. Health Economics 17: 393-409.

Lundborg, P. (2007). Smoking, Information Sources, and Risk Perceptions. New Evidence on Swedish Data. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 34: 217-240.

Andersson, H., Lundborg, P. (2007). Risk of Own Death and the Death of Others: An Analysis of Road-Traffic and Baseline Mortality Risk. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 34: 67-84.

Lundborg, P. (2006). Having the Wrong Friends? Peer Effects in Adolescent Substance Use. Journal of Health Economics 25: 214-233. Reprinted in Cawley, J., and Kenkel, D.S. (editors). (2007, forthcoming). The Economics of Health Behaviours, Volumes 1-3. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series. (Edward Elgar: Northampton, MA).

Lundborg, P., and Lindgren, B. (2002). Risk Perceptions and Alcohol Consumption among Young People. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 25:165-183.

Lundborg, P., and Lindgren, B. (2004). Do They Know what They are Doing? Risk Perceptions and Smoking Behaviour among Teenagers. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 28:261-286.

Other articles in refereed journals

van Duijn M, Lindeboom M, Lundborg P, Mastrogiacomo M. (2013), Pension Plans and the Retirement Replacement Rates in the Netherlands. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 12(2): 168-189.

Stenberg A, Lundborg P. (2010). Nature, Nurture, and Socioeconomic Policy. What can we Learn from Molecular Genetics? Economics and Human Biology 8(3):320-330.

Bolin, K., Lindgren, A., Lindgren, B., Lundborg, P. (2008). Utilisation of Physician Services in 10 European Countries. The Relative Importance of Individual Versus Institutional Factors. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 9: 83-112.

Kristensson, J., Rahm Hallberg, I., Lundborg, P. (2008). Costs for Formal and Informal Care in People 65+ Two Years Prior to Long-Term Municipal Care. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 20: 547-555.

Lundborg, P. (2007). Parents’ Provision of Alcohol and Adolescents’ Alcohol Use – Evidence from Swedish Data. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies Journal 2: 60-70.

Lundborg, P. (2007). Does Smoking Increase Sick-Leaves? Evidence Using Register Data on Swedish Workers. Tobacco Control 16: 114-118.

Lundborg, P., Lindgren, B., Nystedt, P. (2007). Getting Ready for the Marriage Market? The Association Between Divorce Risks and Investments in Attractive Body Mass among Married Europeans. Journal of Biosocial Science 39: 531-544.

Lundborg, P., Lindgren, B., Höjgård, S., Bolin, K. (2007). Obesity and Occupational Attainment among the 50+ of Europe. In: Bolin, K., Cawley, J.(eds.). Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research Volume 17:  The economics of obesity. New York: Elsevier. Forthcoming.

Stafström, M., Larsson, S., Östergren, P. O., Lindgren, B., Lundborg, P. (2006). Long-Term Outcomes of Community Action to Reduce Hazardous Drinking among Adolescents: The Trelleborg Project. Addiction 101:813-823.

Lundborg, P. (2005). Social Capital and Substance Use among Swedish Adolescents - An Explorative Study. Social Science & Medicine 61:1151-1158.

Lundborg, P. (2002). Young People and Alcohol - An Econometric Analysis. Addiction 12:1573-1582.

(Re)Submitted Work

van den Berg, G., Lundborg, P., Nystedt, P., Rooth, D. (2013). Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height among Immigrant Siblings. Revise and Resubmit at Journal of the European Economic Association.

Lundborg, P., Nystedt, P., Rooth, DO. (2010). No country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men. IZA Working Paper 4775. Revise and Resubmit at Demography.

Lundborg P., Nilsson, M., Vikström J. (2011). Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers. IZA DP 6121. (Submitted).

Lundborg, P., Nordin, M., Rooth DO. (2011).The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital. Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins. IZA DP 6099 (Submitted).

Amin, V., Lundborg, P., Rooth, DO (2011). Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data. IZA DP 5946. (Submitted).

van den Berg, G, Lundborg, P., Vikström, J. (2012). The Economics of Grief. IZA DP 7010 (Submitted).

Work in Progress

- Amin, V., Lundborg, P., Rooth, DO: (2011). Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons. IZA DP 5990.

-Lundborg, P., Nilsson, A., Rooth, DO (2011). Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins. IZA DP 5804.

- Lundborg, P., Nilsson, A., Rooth, DO. (2011). Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs? IZA DP 5803.

- Birth Weight over the Life Cycle. With Prashant Bharadwaj and Dan-Olof Rooth.

- Learning-by-doing in a High-Skill Task when Stakes are High: Evidence from Advanced Cancer Surgery. With Daniel Avdic and Johan Vikström.

- Fertility and Labour Supply: IV Evidence. With Erik Plug and Astrid Wurtz Rasmussen.

- Human Capital and Longevity. Evidence from 50,000 Twins. With Carl Hampus Lyttkens and Paul Nystedt.

- Condom Distribution, AIDS, and Fertility Behaviour – A Quasi-experimental Approach. With Gerard van den Berg, and Maarten Lindeboom.

- Bereavement, Health, and Mortality among the Elderly. With Gerard van den Berg and Maarten Lindeboom.

- Critical Periods for the Development of Cognitive Ability During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study among Immigrant Siblings. With Gerard van den Berg, Paul Nystedt, and Dan-Olof Rooth.

- Age at Immigration and Health Outcomes - Sibling Evidence using Swedish Hospital Records. With Gerard van den Berg and Tommy Bengtsson.

- The More the Sicker? Family Size, Birth Order, and Health Outcomes among Swedish Men. With Dan-Olof Rooth and Hilda Ralsmark.

- The Returns to Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills and the Importance of Family Background. With Dan-Olof Rooth.

- Early Nutritional Chocks and Later Life Outcomes: Exploiting Between-Sibling Variation in Exposure to Ramadan while in utero. With Paul Nystedt, and Dan-Olof Rooth.

Publications in Swedish journals

- Lindgren, B., Lundborg, P., and Friberg, A. (2000). Inför en ny alkoholpolitik – verb eller preposition, Ekonomisk Debatt 96:317-329.

- Friberg, A., Lundborg, P., and Lindgren, B. (2001). Gränshandel, alkoholkonsumtion och alkoholpolitik – Sverige inför EU-anpassningen, Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift 78:27-34.

Referee for:                         

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics & Statistics, Economic Journal, American Economic Journal: Applied, Journal of Human Resources, European Economic Review, Journal of Risk & Uncertainty, Journal of Health Economics, Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of Sports Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Economics of Education Review, Economic Inquiry, Health Economics, Empirical Economics, Journal of Socio-Economics, Economics and Human Biology, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economics Bullentin, Demographic Research, Advances in Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine, Addiction, Journal of Adolescence, Journal of Health Psychology, Swedish Research Council, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB)