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Martin Fischer

Ph.D.

Martin Fischer defended his dissertation in October 2018 at the Department of Economics and Health Economics, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. After a Postdoctoral fellow at the Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, he joined the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University in 2022. Fischer's main research interests include the long-term effects of education on health and labor market outcomes.

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Martin Fischer

martin.fischer@med.lu.se

Research interests: Economic history, Education, Health economics, Labor economics

Some questions that Martin Fischer tries to answer in his research:

Did the transformations of the Swedish school system increase social mobility?
Does higher education protect you from dementia?
What are the long-term effects of free access to maternity wards?

Current writings

11 December 2023

Journals of Gerontology: Series B

Very Early-Life Risk Factors for Developing Dementia: Evidence from Full Population Registers

Journal Article

by Martin Fischer, Martin Lövdén, Therese Nilsson, Nika Seblova

29 June 2022

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Revisiting Sweden's Comprehensive School Reform: Effects on Education and Earnings

Journal Article

by Martin Fischer, Gawain Heckley, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson

12 October 2021

Economic Policy

Education and Health: Long-Run Effects of Peers, Tracking and Years

Journal Article

by Martin Fischer, Ulf-G Gerdtham, Gawain Heckley, Martin Karlsson, Gustav Kjellsson, Therese Nilsson

Published at IFN

Journal Articles

11 December 2023 Fischer, Martin, Martin Lövdén, Therese Nilsson and Nika Seblova (2023). “Very Early-Life Risk Factors for Developing Dementia: Evidence from Full Population Registers”. Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78(12), 2131–2140. doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad142

29 June 2022 Fischer, Martin, Gawain Heckley, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson (2022). “Revisiting Sweden's Comprehensive School Reform: Effects on Education and Earnings”. Journal of Applied Econometrics 37(4), 811–819. doi.org/10.1002/jae.2881

12 October 2021 Fischer, Martin et al. (2021). “Education and Health: Long-Run Effects of Peers, Tracking and Years”. Economic Policy 36(105), 3–49. doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiaa027

12 May 2021 Seblova, Dominika et al. (2021). “Does Prolonged Education Causally Affect Dementia Risk When Adult Socioeconomic Status Is Not Altered? A Swedish Natural Experiment in 1.3 Million Individuals”. American Journal of Epidemiology 190(5), 817–826. doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaa255

16 December 2020 Fischer, Martin, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Nina Schwarz (2020). “The Long–Term Effects of Long Terms – Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden”. Journal of the European Economic Association 18(6), 2776–2823. doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvz071

13 August 2013 Fischer, Martin, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson (2013). “Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Mortality: Evidence from Sweden”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 10(8), 3596–3618. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph10083596

Working Papers

21 October 2019 Fischer, Martin et al. (2019). “Education and Health: Long-Run Effects of Peers, Tracking and Years”. IFN Working Paper No. 1300. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

25 June 2018 Fischer, Martin, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Nina Schwarz (2018). “The Long-term Effects of Long Terms: Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Sweden”. IFN Working Paper No. 1223. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

03 December 2013 Fischer, Martin, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson (2013). “Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Mortality: Evidence from Sweden”. IFN Working Paper No. 992. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Op-Eds

15 June 2020 Fischer, Martin, Martin Karlsson and Therese Nilsson (2020). “Mer skoltid i låg ålder gynnar barn hela livet”. Svenska Dagbladet, June 15.

Reports

01 January 2020 Fischer, Martin, Martin Karlsson och Therese Nilsson (2020). ”Långsiktiga effekter av mer undervisningstid”. SNS Analys nr 64. Stockholm: SNS.