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- Andersson Järnberg, Linda, 1969-, et al.
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Willingness to pay for private and public improvements of vulnerable road users’ safety
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A frequent finding in the empirical literature on cost-benefit analysis of traffic safety measures is that valuations of public goods are lower than valuations of private goods, contrary to theory predictions. This study elicits the willingness to pay for publicly and privately provided safety improvement benefiting cyclists and pedestrians, a relatively neglected group in this literature. Our results suggest that there is no significant difference between valuations of a private good and three versions of a public good as long as the good itself is the same, in our case a mobile phone app. The public good versions differ in attributes such as mandatory or voluntary use and private or public provision institutions. This finding is consistent with the simultaneous presence of both financial altruism and safety altruism, or neither. Public institutions are preferred to private ones in the provision of the public goods, and voluntary participation is preferred to mandated regulation. We also find evidence that attitudes that favor using taxes to fund traffic safety projects, and public responsibility for traffic safety are associated with a higher willingness to pay.
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- Andrén, Daniela, Associate Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Designing and Negotiating Agreements in a Digitalized Era – a qualitative analysis
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Digitalization is a reality that governs more and more both the society and the economy, facilitating new and more efficient ways of setting up business and business collaborations. Rational agreement routines and well thought through contracts help organizations to avoid legal disputes and thus maintain long-term relations with customers and suppliers. Therefore, a digitalized platform where non-lawyers (purchasers, sellers) in a user-friendly interface can draft individual contracts without lawyers is expected to both increase the companies’ labor productivity and to facilitate the evaluation of risks and opportunities over time. To our knowledge, there is very little known about the agreement routines and the firms’ interest of making them more efficient using digital solutions. Based on semi-structured interviews that we carried out in Sweden during the autumn 2019, we found that companies and authorities are not fully in control of their agreements, when it comes to for example the origin of the agreements, the agreement routines, the storage of agreement and authorized signatures and do not fully use the potential of digital tools for managing and negotiating contracts. Unexpectedly, organizations seem to be of the opinion that the current, a little bit unmodern, system actually works for them. Therefore, new digital tools and/or digital platforms must really meet the needs of the organizations to correspond to the investment for it. Our interviews suggest that new simple digital solutions might be appreciated and used.
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- Andrén, Daniela, Associate Professor, 1968-
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Health Experiences, Well-Being and Preferences in Health Priority Settings
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: The aim of the paper is to evaluate how the Swedish population values hypothetical interventions aimed at reducing the number of deaths due to suicide, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and acute myocardial infarction, controlling for the respondents’ well-being, their own experiences or knowing someone else, family or friends, who suffered or died due to any of these four diagnoses.Methods: The analyzed data was collected via a web survey that included a discrete choice experiment performed by a sample of 1000 respondents in January 2022. The sample is representative for the Swedish adult population with respect to age, sex and region. The choice set consists of three attributes: number of lives saved, cause of death and age group affected. Apart from the choice task, the survey also included questions regarding respondents’ well-being, their experience of the four health conditions and their opinions on different grounds for the allocation of limited resources connected to the guidelines for priority setting within the health care sector in Sweden.Results: In line with the previous literature, respondents with direct or indirect experience of at least one of the four health conditions have, on average, a lower life satisfaction that those who do not have any experience. Most of the re-spondents who experienced pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and acute myocardial infarction had decreased mental health, and these respondents have the lowest life satisfaction. In general, the respondents put a lower value on saving a life from suicide compared to deaths due to pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and a cutemyocardial infarction. Compared to saving one life from acute myocardial infarction, one has to save 1.58 lives from suicide to get the same benefit.Conclusions: Technical analyses of health priority setting are commonplace but we approach these issues from the perspective of individual experiences and life satisfaction.
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- Andrén, Daniela, Associate Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Hur har pandemin påverkat studenters lärande och mående?
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Redan innan pandemin använde många universitet runt om i världen digitala plattformar för undervisning och lärande. Örebro universitet har sedan 2016 samlat data för att undersöka hur digital undervisning påverkat studenters inlärning och mående. Här delar lärosätet med sig av resultaten av studien, gjord bland universitetsalliansen NEOLAiA:s studenter.
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- Andrén, Daniela, Associate Professor, 1968-
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Online teaching and students’ well-being with experiences from COVID-19
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The rapid development of the information and communications technology (ICT) and the social media platforms after the Facebook’s launch in 2004 offered the Millennials several channels not only for developing skills for online communication but also for developing the habit of spending time online to get inform, to learn and to distant socializing. Therefore, before the outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 in 2020, almost all students, many of them Millennials, were very accustomed to and presumably expect that the benefits outweigh the costs of adapting to new digital applications when moving from the traditional classroom to digital learning platforms. At the same time, the use of social media and computer games are assumed to be responsible for the sharp increase of students’ voluntary delay in study-related activities.Earlier literature suggests that learning lost due to inefficient learning strategies and tools, student’s procrastination and/or school closure due to a shock such as the Coronavirus outbreak in 2020 use to lead to worse outcomes, both in form of failing exams, but also in a superficial accumulation of knowledge needed in most cases in other courses. Additionally, the learning loss was accompanied with worse health outcomes in the long run.In this paper, we analyze data from Sweden during 2018-2021, covering the period where the concept "Swedish exceptionalism" was once again popularized when the seemingly non-authoritative wait-and-see strategy relying on the individual’s own responsibility given governmental voluntary recommendations got huge international attention. In this setting, recommendations were that all teaching, learning and examinations at the higher-education organizations were to be done remotely. Nevertheless, compared to other countries, Sweden was an exception, locally allowing for larger flexibility within all educational units at all educational levels, implying that the educational system was never locked down.Using data from several surveys about students online learning and their well-being during 2018-2021, our results suggest that the average well-being of the students, measured in terms of general life-satisfaction, did not decrease significantly after March 2020. But the majority of the students were emotionally affected by the social isolation.
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- Andrén, Daniela, Associate Professor, 1968-
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Prioritizing Suicide Prevention through the Lens of the Individual's Well-Being
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1091-4358 .- 1099-176X. ; 26:Suppl. 1, s. S4-S4
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: The need for priority setting in healthcare became evident during the Covid-19 pandemic, when planned care was postponed facilitating emergency treatment of Covid-19 patients, raisinquestions about the population’s preferences.Aim: To estimate the population values interventions reducing the number of suicides in comparison to treatments reducing the number of deaths due to other causes in a country where healthcare system has a pronounced public character and a declared emphasis on equity and solidarity during a time when the limited healthcare resources were predominantly allocated for the treatment of Covid patients.Data and Methods: The data was collected via a web survey sent to members of the web panel Userneeds during a tree-week period starting with the last week of December 2021, when media was informing the population about global experts and politicians’ huge concern about the extremely high infection risk of the Omicron. The survey was designed to identify the populations’ preferences for the allocation of the limited health care resources to save lives. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted among a sample of 1000 respondents to elicit the relative importance placed on reducing the number of deaths due to suicide in comparison to deaths due to pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and acute heart attack. The sample is representative with respect age, gender, and geographical region for the adult population of Sweden.Results: Respondents with high value of life satisfaction and no experience of any of the four health conditions chose to allocate a given limited healthcare budget for relatively young people but not to suicide. When not controlling for the individual’s life satisfaction, the respondents seem to prioritize the interventions that reduce the risk of young people to die due to suicide and breast cancer.Discussion: Even though the derived value of suicide prevention is near the average willingness to pay for suicide prevention, in general, a value derived using Wellbeing Valuation should not be seen as the actual amount that people would be willing to pay.
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