Biography

I’m a PhD student in the Department of Business and Economics at the university of Sourthern Denmark and employed at VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research. I have a BSc and MSc in economics from the University of Sourthern Denmark. I hand in my dissertation June 2021.

I’m an applied microeconomist with research interests at the intersection of health and labour economics. My dissertation is about the impact of health interventions on socioeconomic outcomes and the role of clinical guidelines in rationing care. I use register data and quasi experiments to find causal effects.

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Interests
  • Applied Economics
  • Health Economics
  • Administrative Data
Education

  • M.Sc. Economics, 2017

    University of Sourthen Denmark

Publications

Using national clinical guidelines to reduce practice variation – the case of Denmark
The use and usefulness of clinical practice guidelines to reduce clinical variation remains a contested topic. Between 2012 and 2017, …
Nis Lydiksen, Jane Greve, Marie Jakobsen, Søren Rud Kristensen
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Using national clinical guidelines to reduce practice variation – the case of Denmark

Work in progress

Do the guidelines apply to me?
Background Patients who themselves have medical expertise have been found to receive care that is systematically different from care provided to non-expert patients. However, the current literature has been unable to ascertain whether the differences are due to expert patients sending less noisy signals about their preferences or health state than non-experts (statistical discrimination theory) or whether experts use their informational advantage to demand better care than non-expert patients (agency discrimination theory).
Jane Greve, Søren R. Kristensen, Nis Lydiksen
Slides Working paper - EuHEA conference draft
Do the guidelines apply to me?
Fertility and labour market outcomes - evidence from prenatal screening information
In this paper I study the labour market effects of having additional children. I find a limited impact of going from two to three children using a novel source of exogenous variation in family size stemming from prenatal screening information.
Nis Lydiksen
Slides Working paper
Fertility and labour market outcomes - evidence from prenatal screening information
The Impact of Antidepressant Use on Socioeconomic Outcomes of Treated Individuals and Their Families (With Sonia Bhalotra, Meltem Daysal and Mircea Trandafir)

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