Assistant Professor Carlos Riumallo Herl is awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for his proposal ‘Disability, Labour, and Health’. This prestigious EU Horizon2020 grant to the amount of 188,000 euro is meant to encourage the mobility of researchers across national borders within the European Union. On Thursday 14 February 2019, Dean a.i. Frank van der Duijn Schouten and Dean of Research Enrico Pennings congratulated Carlos with this extraordinary achievement.
Enrico Pennings, Vice Dean Research: ‘Though still a young researcher Carlos has already made some impressive contributions to the important field of health economics, health inequalities and poverty reduction. The awarding of this fellowship proves that his academic achievements are internationally recognized and will certainly give a further boost to his academic career.’
Uniquely Carlos already obtained a LEaDing Fellowship (COFUND) in 2018. Carlos will start his Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship consecutively. Since September 2017 Carlos Riumallo-Herl is working in the Applied Economics Department of Erasmus School of Economics. He is affiliated with the Erasmus Initiative Smarter Choices for Better Health, which is a collaboration between Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management and Erasmus MC. Carlos obtained his PhD in Global Health and Population Economics from Harvard University, USA, in May 2017. He graduated his masters at London School of Economics (UK) and Ecole des Mines Saint-Etienne (FR).
Carlos’ research interests are on health economics and economics of aging, and more specifically the role of health and social policies in healthy aging, financial risk protection, and long-term impact of health interventions on economic outcomes in developing countries.
In the last decade, financial crises and population ageing have led to the retrenchment of the welfare state. One area under financial pressure is the provision of disability benefits. In response, governments have reduced expenditures by tightening eligibility criteria or reducing the benefit amounts. The Netherlands has become an example of such a system as it has persistently reduced the number of new individuals receiving disability benefits. Even though the reforms seem to have achieved their objective, there is little understanding of how they impact labour force participation and individual level health. This is especially striking since the original aim is to protect health. This research will contribute to our understanding of disability benefits by estimating their causal effect on work and health.
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