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Name: Espen Dahl Date of birth: 1953 Title/Research programme: Professor and research director of Health, Care and Welfare (HOV) E-Mail: espen.dahl@hio.no Phone: +47 22 45 35 19 / 959 07 248 Fax: +47 22 45 30 05 Visiting Address: Pilestredet 46, 0167 Oslo

Selected publications from the past five years

• Lahelma E, Kivelä K, Roos E, Tuominen T, Dahl Espen, Diderichsen Finn, Elstad Jon Ivar, Lissau I, Lundberg O, Rahkonen O, Rasmussen N Kr & Yngwe M. Åberg (2002). Analysing changes of health inequalities in the Nordic welfare states. Social Science & Medicine, 55: 609-625.
• Dahl, Espen (2002). Health Inequalities and Health Policy: The Norwegian Case. Norsk Epidemiologi, 12 (1): 69-75.
• Dahl Espen & Thomas Lorentzen (2003). Dynamics of social assistance: the Norwegian experience in comparative perspective. International Journal of Social Welfare, 12 (4): 289-301.
• Dahl Espen (2003). Does “workfare” work? The Norwegian experience. International Journal of Social Welfare 12 (4) 274-288.
• Dahl Espen & Thomas Lorentzen (2003). Explaining Exit to Work among Social Assistance Recipients in Norway: Heterogeneity or Dependency? In European Sociological Review, 19 (5): 519-536.
• Dahl, Espen & Ivar Lødemel (2003). Tiltaksplan mot fattigdom – en vurdering. Tidsskrift for Velferdsforskning, 6 (2): 107-124.
• Johan P Mackenbach, Martijntje J Bakker, for the European Network on Intervention and Policies to Reduce Inequalities in Health (2003). Tackling socioeconomic inequalities in health: analysis of European experiences. The Lancet 362:1409-14.
• Dahl, Espen (2004). Social Assistance Dynamics in Sociological Perspective - Evidence, Interpretations and Policy Implications. HiO-report no 12. Oslo: Oslo University College.
• Dahl Espen & Thomas Lorentzen (2005). What works for whom? An effect evaluation of Active Labour Market Programs in Norway. International Journal of Social Welfare, 14: 86-98.
• Lorentzen, Thomas, & Espen Dahl (2005). Active Labour Market Programmes in Norway: Are they helpful for social assistance recipients? Journal of European Social Policy, 15: 27-45.
• Dahl, Espen & Thomas Lorentzen (2005). Mot selvforsørgelse? Evaluering av arbeidsretta tiltak for sosialhjelpsmottakere. Embla.
• Giskes, Katrina et al. (2005) Trends in smoking behaviour between 1985 and 2000 in nine European countries by education. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 59: 395-40.
• Elstad, Jon Ivar, Dahl, Espen & Dag Hofoss (2005). Skjev inntektsfordeling og geografiske forskjeller i dødelighet. Tidsskrift for den norske Lægeforening 125: 3082-4.
• Dahl, Espen, Jon Ivar Elstad & Dag Hofoss (2006). Associations between relative income and mortality in Norway: a register-based study. In European Journal of Public Health. Advance access February 13.
• Dahl, Espen & Axel West Pedersen (2006). Gender, Employment and Social Security in Norway. In Gilbert, N. (ed.), Gender and Social Security Reform. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
• Dahl, Espen, Fritzell Johan, Lahelma Eero, Martikainen, Pekka, Kunst, Anton & Johan P. Mackenbach (2006). Welfare Regimes and Health Inequalities. In Marmot, Michael & Johannes Siegrist (eds), Social inequalities in health: new evidence and policy implications. Oxford University Press.
• Dahl, Espen, Elstad Jon Ivar, Hofoss, Dag and Melissa Martin-Mollard (2006). For whom is income inequality most harmful? A multi-level analysis of income inequality and mortality in Norway. Social Science & Medicine, (10): 2562-2574.
• Dahl, Espen & John Ivar Elstad (2007). Class, Work and Health – Norwegian Country Chapter. In Lundberg et al. (eds.), Health inequalities and working conditions. The Winner project. Forthcoming.
• Dahl, Espen, Jon Ivar Elstad & Dag Hofoss (2007). Educational gradients in avoidable deaths in Norway: A population based study. Health Sociology Review. 16 (2).
• Grøholt Else-Karin, Espen Dahl and Jon Ivar Elstad (2007) Health inequalities and the welfare state. Norsk epidemologi 17 (1): 3-8
• Ohrem Naper, Sille og Espen Dahl (2007) Sosialhjelpsmottakeres dødelighet: I hvilken grad kan overdødeligheten tilskrives deres sosiale status? Norsk Epidemiologi 17 (1): 21-28
• Elstad, Jon Ivar, Dag Hofoss og Espen Dahl (2007) Hva betyr de enkelte dødsårsaksgrupper for utdanningsforskjellene i dødelighet? Norsk Epidemiologi 17 (1): 37-42
• Dahl Espen og Lorentzen Thomas (2007) Virker tiltak for sosialhjelpsmottakere: Seleksjon, effekter og politiske implikasjoner. Søkelys på arbeidslivet 2/07, 149-158
• Dahl, E. and Elstad, JI. (2007) Norway. In Lundberg, I., Hemmingson, T. Hogstedt, C. (eds) Work and Social Inequalities in Health in Europe. Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang
• Dahl, Espen og Lorentzen, Thomas & Tone Fløtten (2008). Poverty Dynamics and Social Exclusion in Norway. Journal of Social Policy, forthcoming
• Dahl, Espen og Lorentzen, Thomas (2008) Norway: Social Security, Active Labour Market Policies and Economic Progress. In Jim Midgley (ed): Social Security, the Economy and Development, forthcoming.
• Borgeraas, Elling og Dahl, Espen (2008) Low income and "poverty lines" in Norway - A comparison of three Concepts. Submitted to International Journal of Social Welfare.
• Dahl, Espen et al (2008) Are socioeconomic inequalities in mortality smaller in the Nordic countries than elsewhere? A systematic review. Submitted to Social Science and Medicine.