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Table of contents
1 Introduction............................................................................. 3
2 Social Insurance Schemes in Sweden.......................................... 5
2.1 Sickness Insurance................................................................... 5
2.2 Disability Insurance .................................................................. 6
2.3 Unemployment Insurance.......................................................... 7
2.4 Summary ................................................................................ 7
2.5 Supplementary Benefits ............................................................ 8
3 The Experiment and Data .......................................................... 9
3.1 General set-up ......................................................................... 9
3.2 Data and descriptive statistics.................................................. 11
4 Empirical Modeling and Results ................................................ 13
4.1 Results.................................................................................. 13
4.2 Dynamics and Residual State ................................................... 15
4.3 Robustness Analysis ............................................................... 20
5 Theoretical Framework............................................................ 22
5.1 The model ............................................................................. 22
5.2 Optimal Choice of Communicated Health ................................... 23
5.3 A Numerical Example .............................................................. 25
6 Effects for Unemployed and Employed ...................................... 28
7 Conclusion............................................................................. 30
References ....................................................................................... 33
Appendix A....................................................................................... 35
Total population ................................................................................ 35
Appendix B....................................................................................... 36
The Dynamics of Treatment................................................................ 36
Appendix C....................................................................................... 38
Estimation Results without Covariates.................................................. 38