Browsing by Author "Berggren, Andrea"

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Choices among Doctors, Students and Primary Care Providers: Empirical Evidence from Sweden
(2023-02-21) Berggren, Andrea
This thesis consists of three independent chapters. The setting for the first and the third chapter is the primary care sector in Sweden. The second chapter focuses on the consequences of a reform implemented in the Swedish upper secondary school system. In chapter one I study if, and how, children´s health care utilization is affected by the physician’s decision to prescribe antibiotics or not. I document underlying differences in physicians’ antibiotics prescription propensity to children and use these differences as an instrument for analysing the consequences for the individual’s utilization of health care. In the second chapter I study how a reform, aimed at increasing course-taking flexibility, affected students’ choice of courses and program as well as their third cycle educational outcomes. The third chapter focuses on how local media information about primary care centres affects the patient’s choice of primary care provider.
The Effect of Relative Standing on Self-Perceived Health among Europeans Aged 50 or Older
(2015-07-13) Berggren, Andrea; Nyström, Sofia; University of Gothenburg/Graduate School; Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School
In order to identify determinants of health among individuals older than 50 years, we use panel data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) year 2011/2012 and 2014 to estimate the e ect of relative standing on self-reported health. Relative standing is de ned as the di erence between an individual's net worth and the median net worth in his or her reference group. Using panel data enables us to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity which mitigates potential endogeneity issues. The results suggest that the e ect of relative standing with respect to net worth is signi cant and robust across di erent speci cations.
The Effects of Household Water Access on Employment in SSA: Is There a Gender Difference?
(2013-03-28) Berggren, Andrea; Dankvardt, Anders; University of Gothenburg/Department of Economics; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik
Several of the Millennium Development Goals stress the importance of working for improved drinking water, gender equality and employment to improve the life of people as well as creating growth in developing countries. Literature suggests investments in infrastructure increase the probability of employment. This study aims at investigating the relationship between having the major source of water for household use close and the likelihood of being employed. Furthermore, using a Probit model, it investigates whether the effect of water access is larger for women. The results display a positive correlation between water access and employment but cannot conclude a gender difference in the effect. The relationship between water and likelihood of employment provides an incentive for future investments in infrastructure in general and water infrastructure in particular in order to enhance labor force participation overall.
The Impact of Upper Secondary School Flexibility on Sorting and Educational Outcomes
(2019-05) Berggren, Andrea; Jeppsson, Louise; Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
This paper estimates the causal impact of an upper secondary curriculum reform in Sweden that increased students' course-taking flexibility in year 2000. In the most popular upper secondary program, it led to a significant decrease in mandatory mathematics requirements. Using administrative Swedish data, we estimate the causal impact of the reform on tertiary education outcomes and expected earnings using a differences-in-discontinuity identification strategy. The method compares students born immediately before and after the cutoff date. The inclusion of students born in neighboring non-reform cutoff years enables us to disentangle the school starting age effect from the unconfounded effect of the reform. We find no negative effects of the reduced mathematics requirements. Rather, we find a positive effect of the reform on students' probability of enrolling in, and earning a degree from, tertiary education. Our heterogeneity analysis suggests that relatively disadvantaged students were not negatively affected by the reform.