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The Health Economics group is part of the Department of Applied Economics.

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Next Seminar

Sven Neelsen (CES Ifo Munich) will present his paper "Early-Life Exposure to an Indonesian Midwife Program and Adolescent Cognitive Skill" in the health economics seminar series Tuesday April 24. The seminar will be held from 12.00-13.00 in room H12-32.

News

Hans van Kippersluis' PhD thesis on "Understanding socioeconomic differences in health" received an honourable mention during the presentation of the KVS medal.

Pilar García Gómez has been awarded a VENI scholarship on health and work, which policies work?

Hale Koc received an AXA PhD Scholarship on International variation in the socioeconomic health gradient: do the institutional arrangements matter?.

Bastian Ravesteijn received a NETSPAR research grant project on Occupational choice and health: which jobs offer better health prospects for a long career?

Recent Publications

Bago d’Uva T, M Lindeboom, O O'Donnell, E van Doorslaer. Education-related Inequity in Health Care with Heterogeneous Reporting of Health. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 2011; 174(3): 639–664.

Bleichrodt, H., Rohde, K.I.M. & Ourti, T.G.M. Van (2011). An Experimental Test of the Concentration Index. Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.

Garcia-Gomez, P, H van Kippersluis, O O'Donnell, E van Doorslaer (2011), Effects of Health on Own and Spousal Employment and Income using Acute Hospital Admissions, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 11-143/2.

Luczak J, García-Gómez P (2012). Financial burden of drug expenditures in Poland. Health Policy, forthcoming.

Van de Poel E, O O’Donnell and E van Doorslaer (2011), The health penalty of China’s rapid urbanisation, Health Economics, forthcoming.