Among the questions that Henrik Jordahl tries to answer with his research:
- Why are publicly funded services sometimes contracted out to private providers and sometimes produced in-house by public sector employees?
- How does the choice between public and private production influence costs and quality of publicly funded services?
- How can we reform laws, rules and practices to improve the production of publicly funded services?
New research
The End of a Trend? Retraction of Choice in Swedish Elderly Care
Henrik Jordahl and Lovisa Persson
The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it. Journal of Public Economics, 146 (February), 79-86, 2017 (with Niclas Berggren and Panu Poutvaara). Link
Promises, policies and pocketbook Voting. European Economic Review, 75 (April), 177-194, 2015 (with Mikael Elinder and Panu Poutvaara), Link
Political preferences and public sector outsourcing. European Journal of Political Economy 30, 43-57, 2013 (with Mikael Elinder). Link
Henrik Jordahl's research papers are also available at Google Scholar, IDEAS and SSRN.
IFN Newsletter
Promise voters to pad their wallets, and they will listen. IFN Newsletter 2-2015. Link