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Professor Martin Karlsson is Chair of Health Economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He has held this position since April 2012 and is also a Guest Professor at the University of Gothenburg, an IZA Fellow, and Director of CINCH (the national center for research on health economics).
Professor Karlsson received his doctoral degree from the European University Institute in Florence in 2007. Prior to his current position, he worked at the Technical University of Darmstadt (2009-2012), the University of Oslo (2009-2016), the University of Oxford (2006-2009), and Cass Business School in London (2005-2006).
Professor Karlsson's primary research focuses on understanding the causes behind improvements in human health and socioeconomic outcomes over the past century. His work particularly examines the interdependencies between health and socioeconomic factors. He exploits historical policy interventions in health and education to uncover the causal impact of early-life human capital investments. His research involves digitizing historical data sources and linking them to modern administrative datasets. Additional research areas include economic aspects of health insurance, population aging and long-term care, and sickness absence behavior.
His recent publications reveal a strong focus on health economics with particular attention to historical pandemics (especially the 1918-19 influenza pandemic), education-health connections, and health insurance systems. His work often employs natural experiments and historical data to establish causal relationships. A notable trend is his increasing use of large-scale administrative datasets from multiple countries to examine cross-national patterns in health and economic outcomes.
Professor Karlsson has been awarded the prestigious Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, which will allow him to spend six months in 2026 researching and teaching at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Professor Karlsson regularly organizes international academic conferences on current health economics topics and participates in various international research collaborations. He has supervised master's theses, including one on "The Influence on Children's Labor Supply on Prenatal Well-Being."
He directs CINCH, the national center for research on health economics, which serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research connecting health economics with policy-relevant questions.
