Research interests
Applied microeconometrics, Health inequality, Individual health behavior, Primary care markets
Publications:
Research Papers:
Kjellsson, G, Petrie, D, Van Ourti, T. (forthcoming) Income-related inequalities in future health prospects Health Economics
Anell, A, Dackehag, M, Dietrichson, J, Ellegård, LM, Kjellsson G. 2024 Better Off by Risk Adjustment? Socioeconomic Disparities in Care Utilization in Sweden Following a Payment Reform Journal of Policy Analysis & Management
Milos Nymberg, V, Ellegård, LM, Kjellsson, G, Wolff, M, Borgström Bolmsjö, B, Wallman, T, & Calling, S. (2022). Trends in remote health care consumption in Sweden: Comparison Before and During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic. JMIR Human Factors, 9(1), [article on journal webpage].
Fischer, Gerdtham, Heckley, Karlsson, Kjellsson, Nilsson: Education and Health: Long run efffects of peers, tracking and years Economic Policy 2021 Vol 36 [article on journal webpage]
Anell, A, Dietrichson, J, Ellegård, LM, Kjellsson G. Information, Switching Costs, and Consumer Choice: Evidence from Two Randomized Field Experiments in Swedish Primary Care. Journal of Public Economics 2021 [article on journal webpage] [working paper]
Kjellsson G, Petrie D Visualizing the evolution of income inequality Journal of Income Distribution 2021 Vol29 [article on journal webpage]
Dietrichson, J, Ellegård, LM, Kjellsson G. Patient choice, entry, and the quality of primary care: evidence from Swedish reforms. Health Economics 2020 [[article on journal webpage]
Svereus, S, Rehnberg, C, Kjellsson, G. Socioeconomic distribution of GP visits following patient choice reform and differences in reimbursement models: evidence from Sweden. Health Policy 2018 Vol 122(9) [article on journal webpage]
Kjellsson, G. Extending decomposition analysis to account for unobserved heterogeneity and persistence in health behavior: income related smoking inequality among Swedish women. Health Economics 2018 Vol 28(2) [article on journal webpage]
Kjellsson, G, Petrie D. Graphical tools for monitoring inequality The beauty can lie (in the details). Epidemiology 2017 Vol 28(4) [article on journal webpage] [Invited commentary on Blakely et al.]
Heckley, G, Gerdtham, U-G, Kjellsson, G. A general method for decomposing the causes of socioeconomic inequality in health. Journal of Health Economics 2016. Vol 48 [article on journal webpage] [Stata code]
Kjellsson, G, Gerdtham, U-G, Petrie, D. Lies, damned lies, and health inequality measurements: Understanding the value judgments. Epidemiology 2015 Vol 26(5) [article on journal webpage] [comment by Adam Wagstaff]
Kjellsson, G, Gerdtham, U-G., Petrie, D. The authors respond: Pophham F, Re: Lies, damned lies, and health inequality measurements: Understanding the value judgments. Epidemiology 2016 Vol 27(3) p e16-17 [article on journal webpage] [Response to F. Popham]
Kjellsson, G, Clarke, P, Gerdtham, U-G. Forgetting to Remember or Remembering to Forget - A Study of the Recall Period Length in Health Care Survey Questions. Journal of Health Economics 2014. Vol 35 [article on journal webpage] [working paper]
Kjellsson, G, Gerdtham, U-G. On Correcting the Concentration Index for Binary Variables. Journal of Health Economics 2013. Vol 32 (3) [article on journal webpage]
Kjellsson, G, Gerdtham, U-G. Lost in translation: Rethinking the Inequality Equivalence criteria for bounded health variables, Research on Economic Inequality 2013. Vol 21: Health and Inequality. [article on journal webpage] [working paper]
Kjellsson, G, Gerdtham, U-G., Lyttkens, C.H. Breaking bad habits by education – Smoking dynamics among Swedish woman. Health Economics 2011. Vol 20 (7) [article on journal webpage]
Monographs:
Kjellsson, G, Health, Inequality, and Smoking. Doctoral Dissertation, Lund Economic Studies Nr 175, 2014.
Other:
Kjellsson, G, Gerdtham, U-G. Measuring health inequalities using the concentration index approach. In Encyclopedia of Health Economics, edited by Tony Culyer, Elsevier, San Diego, 2014 [article on journal webpage]
Gerdtham, U-G, Kjellsson, G. 2011 Mätning och Analys av ojämlikhet i hälsa. - Om konsten att mäta något utan att veta vad och hur. Ett diskussionsunderlag framtaget för Kommission för ett socialt hållbart Malmö, Malmö Stad [article]
Working Papers:
Ellegård, LM, Kjellsson, G, Mattisson, L. An App Call a Day Keeps the Patient Away? Substitution of Online and In-Person Doctor Consultations Among Young Adults Working Papers in Economics 808 (Condionally accepted)
Anell, A, M, Dietrichson, J, Ellegård, LM, Kjellsson G. Well-Informed Choices? Effects of Information Interventions in Primary Care on Care Quality. Working paper 2022:15
Ellegård, LM, Kjellsson G, Kovacs R, Zhao Y. Patient Choice and Socioeconomic Disparities in the Quality of Healthcare: Evidence from Swedish Registry Data (RnR)