29.03.2012
A paper on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic by Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Stefan Pichler, which was presented at the annual conference of the Royal Economic Society earlier this week, has attracted some media attention. An article from derStandard (Austria) may be found here, and the working paper itself may be found here.
28.02.2012
Martin Karlsson, Asim Farooq and Florian Klohn will soon be leaving the TU Darmstadt for new positions at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Maike Schmitt will be staying on but transfers completely to the Chair for Empirical Economics. We are still happy to take on students who wish to write their Bachelor or Master theses with us. Students who wish to take exams are advised to get in touch as soon as possible.
08.02.2012
Studenten der TU Darmstadt haben im Rahmen eines Seminars Ursachen der Lebenszufriedenheit Darmstädter Schüler untersucht. Eine Mitteilung darüber finden Sie hier.
12.12.2011
The book chapter 'Scandinavian Long-Term Care Financing' authored by Martin Karlsson, Tor Iversen and Henning Øien has now been published in the anthology Financing Long-Term Care in Europe (Costa-Font and Courbage, eds).
01.12.2011
The Call for Papers for next year's conference 'Health. Development. Inequality' has now been made public:
14.11.2011
Unser Fachgebiet sucht zur Unterstützung des Teams eine studentische Hilfskraft. Bei Interesse oder Rückfragen, melden Sie sich bitte bei uns.
31.10.2011
The paper 'Some notes on how to catch a red herring. Ageing, time-to-death & care costs for older people in Sweden' by Martin Karlsson and Florian Klohn has been published in the working paper series of the Health Economics Research Group, University of Oslo.
11.10.2011
A summary of the article 'Only in the Heat of the Moment? A Study of the Relation between Weather and Mortality in Germany' by Martin Karlsson and Maike Schmitt was published in the Newsletter of Health and Ageing of the Geneva Association.
04.10.2011
A summary of this year's conference, written by Asim, Florian and Maike, has been published at 'Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research'.
06.09.2011
According to the 2011 Handelsblatt ranking, Martin Karlsson is amongst the top 100 economists under the age of 40 in German-speaking countries. weiter