On Tuesday 5 June 2018 Dean Philip Hans Franses surprised Stephanie von Hinke with a bouquet of flowers for her appointment as Endowed Professor of Health Economics at Erasmus School of Economics through the Erasmus Trustfonds.
Stephanie’s research covers two main areas. First, she is interested in the economics of obesity, diet and nutrition, looking at both potential causes and consequences of the recent rise in body weight, as well as at evaluating ways to improve dietary choices. Second, she examines the use of genetic data in economics research. This interdisciplinary work includes policy-relevant applications, looking at genetic and environmental determinants of health and education, as well as methodological research using Mendelian randomization.
Stephanie von Hinke is collaborating in the NORFACE research programme “Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course” (DIAL). This research project, which is led by Associate Professor Dr Hans van Kippersluis of Erasmus School of Economics, focuses on combining methods from genetics and social science to investigate the interplay between genes and the environment in producing inequalities in education and health outcomes.
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