Areas of work
Jens Dietrichson uses a wide selection of methods to study how best to structure public organisations and institutions. In his work, he has a special focus on, for instance, evaluation of reforms and interventions in day care and state-run schools aimed at pupils at risk of learning difficulties. Moreover, he carries out systematic research reviews with a focus on the education area and analyses of competition and the structure of user choice and payment systems in terms of quality and costs in the primary health sector.
Methods
Jens Dietrichson evaluates interventions and reforms using natural experiments and randomised controlled trials, and he carries out systematic research reviews, including meta-analyses. Furthermore, he carries out surveys on municipal budget processes and makes game theory models of, for instance, communication and coordination in teams.
Background
Jens Dietrichson has a PhD and a master’s degree in Economics and a bachelor in Political Science from Lund University. Following his PhD in 2013, he continued working as a researcher at Department of Economics in Lund for a further year.
In 2014 he was employed by VIVE, where he has worked as a researcher and later a senior researcher in the areas of education, health and municipal economics.
Both before and during his training to be a researcher, he was employed as a budget economist in Helsingborg Municipality. Here, he especially had tasks in budgeting, corporate governance and development of social, school and day care interventions.