Johan Vikström

Welcome!

I'm a research leader at IFAU and professor at Uppsala University (Department of Economics, UCLS).

My research interests include labor economics, program evaluation and health economics.

Publications here. Ongoing research here. CV here.

Recent papers

Rambjer, L, A Uhlendorff and and J Vikström (2025), "Strictness in the Evaluation of Job Search Efffort and Employment Outcomes", IFAU mimeo

Cockx B, Egebark J, Van Hoye G, Videnord E and Vikström J (2025), "Motivating Job Seekers. A Field Experiment", IFAU mimeo

Khaliliaraghi S, Lundborg P and Vikström (2025), "Gender Gaps in Productivity, Wages, and Promotions: Evidence from a Random Task Allocation Policy" , IFAU mimeo

van Empel G, Avdic D, Khalil U, Kunz J, Lagerqvist B and Vikström J, (2025), ""Radiating influene? Spillover effects among physicians"", Papers 2025-01, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University.

Athey S, Simon L,, Nordström Skans O, Vikström J and Yakymovych Y (2024), "The Heterogeneous Earnings Impact of Job Loss Across Workers, Establishments, and Markets", RR American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Avdic D, Lagerqvist B, Gutacker N, van Empel G and Vikström J, (2024), "Provider responses to market entry under competing health technologies", mimeo Monash University

Recent publications

Lombardi S, G van den Berg and J Vikström (2024), "Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence on Estimation of Timing-of-Events Models", Econometric Reviews, accepted.

Cederlöf J, M Söderström and J Vikström (2024), "What makes a good caseworker?", Journal of European Economic Association, accepted.

Cheung M, J Egebark, A Forslund, L Laun, M Rödin and J Vikström (2024), "Does job search assistance reduce unemployment? Experimental evidence on displacement effects and mechanisms", Journal of Labor Economics, 43(1), 47--81.

Avdic D., S. von Hinke, B. Lagerqvist, C. Propper and J. Vikström (2024), "Do responses to news matter? Evidence from interventional cardiology", Journal of Health Economics, 94 (March)