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Lyttkens is currently engaged in a number of externally financed projects. The list below includes only projects where Lyttkens is a project leader.

The long-term benefits of education. A life-cycle approach applied to the twin cohorts 1886-1958.
Financial support: The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), SEK 2,400,000
Duration: 2011-2013
Project leader: Carl Hampus Lyttkens, professor
Participants:Ulf Gerdtham, professor, Petter Lundborg, docent; Paul Nystedt, docent

Does globalizatioon improve or worsen health in LDCs?
Financial support:  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), SEK 1,600,000
Duration: 2010-2012
Project leader: Carl Hampus Lyttkens, professor
Participants:Andreas Bergh, PhD, Therese Nilsson, PhD

Demokrati och ekonomi - lärdomar från antikens Grekland (Democracy, economy and institutional change - lessons from antiquity).
Financial support: Gyllenstiernska Krapperupsstiftelsen, SEK 120,000
Duration: 2008-2010
Participant: Carl Hampus Lyttkens, professor

The health economics program on health, health care, and public policy (HEP)
Financial support: The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)
                         SEK 12,000,000
Duration: program support 2007-2013
Project leaders: Ulf Gerdtham, professor, Carl Hampus Lyttkens, professor
Participants: many

Lyttkens is also engaged in the research project From palace economy to democracy. Economic analysis of institutional change in ancient Greece 1200-322 B.C.

Lyttkens has previously been the leader of i.a. the following externally financed research projects:

Contract-based New Institutional Economics (Torsten and Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelser)
Utilisation of health care in developing countries – the case of Zambia (The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Department for Research Cooperation (SAREC); The Foundation for Economic Research at Lund University)
Diffusion of medical technology (The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research; Apoteksbolagets fond för forskning och studier i hälsoekonomi och socialfarmaci)
The ancient economy (The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary foundation)
Equality of access in health care (The Swedish Social Research council)
Research in health economics (The Swedish Medical Research Council).