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Tommy Bengtsson is a Professor at Lund University, affiliated with the Department of Economic History and the Centre for Economic Demography. He received his doctoral degree from Lund University in 1980, focusing on the development of the textile industry during World War II, particularly concerning technological change and labor market issues. Bengtsson has worked extensively in population economics, analyzing short-term demographic responses to changes in real wages using historical records at a macro level. In the 1980s, he developed a life event history and time-series approach to study community-wide real wages and individual effects. He initiated the Scanian Economic Demographic Database (SEDD), creating a significant resource for demographic research in collaboration with the Provincial Archives of Lund. His research interests include the analysis of living standards, early life conditions, health, and socioeconomic performance, using large-scale longitudinal databases. Bengtsson has contributed to numerous research projects, including studies related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and historical immigration trends in Sweden.
Lund University • Lund, Sweden
Professor in the Department of Economic History and Centre for Economic Demography.
Includes Master of Science in Politics and Society of the Contemporary Middle East and European Affairs.