Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management

10th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics

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The Erasmus Center for Health Economics Rotterdam (EsCHER) is pleased to host the tenth Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam on 11 and 12 December 2025. 

Date
Thursday 11 Dec 2025, 09:00 - Friday 12 Dec 2025, 17:00
Type
Workshop
Location
Campus Woudestein
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The workshop brings together economists and behavioral scientists who apply behavioral-economics insights and experimental methods to study health-related decision making. The workshop is part of the activities of the Behavioral Experiments in Health Network (BEHnet). 

Previous BEHnet workshops took place at the University of Oslo (2014), McMaster University (2015), the University of Cologne (2016), the University of Duisburg-Essen (2016), GSU Atlanta (2017), the University of Oslo (2018), the University of Innsbruck (2020), as a special digital edition hosted by JHU and LSE (2021), the University of Vienna (2023), and HCHE Hamburg (2024).

To the tenth edition in Rotterdam, we welcome contributions on topics related to economic aspects of health-related decision making (e.g., preferences, incentives, institutions) applying experimental methods, be it field, lab or online experiments. We expect to have both long talks (30 min or more plus discussion) and lightening talks (5 min) that will be accompanied by a poster presentation.

Keynote speaker

The workshop will consist of a keynote lecture delivered by David Bradford (University of Georgia) and plenary sessions with invited speakers, including a CEAR (Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk) special session on risk. In addition, we will organize a poster session with 5 minutes ‘blitz presentations’ in the plenum, followed by an additional hour for a more informal exchange with the presenters. 

Programme

Location: Locus Publicus, Oostzeedijk 364, Rotterdam

18:00Informal drinks (for those interested, 1st drink included)

Location: Langeveld building, room L5.18 (fifth floor)

08:30-09:30Registration and coffee
09:30-09:40Welcome address
09:40-11:00Session 1: Subjective Probabilities:
 
  • Owen O’Donnell (Erasmus U Rotterdam): Leveraging Probability Distortion to Target Prevention: A Cardiovascular Screening Experiment in the Philippines
  • Eli Kochersberger (Kean U): Modelling the Role of Regret in the Vaccination Decision with Elicited Subjective Probabilities
11:00-11:30Coffee break
11:30-12:50Session 2: Antibiotics:
 
  • Alina Schneider (U Vienna): Wilful Ignorance in the Context of Antibiotic Prescribing
  • Christoph Strupat (German Institute of Development and Sustainability): Incentives for Knowledge Acquisition and Antibiotic Dispensing Behaviors of Pharmacists in Ghana
12:50-13:50Lunch break
13:50-15:10Session 3: Provider Behavior:
 
  • Damien De Walque (World Bank): Love the Job... or the Patient? Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care
  • Malte Griebenow (U Hamburg): Reciprocity in medical treatment decisions – A theoretical model and a laboratory experiment
15:10-15:30Coffee break
15:30-16:30  Keynote  David Bradford (U Georgia): The Role of Individual Time Preferences in Health Decisions: Past, Present, and Future
16:30-16:45  Group photo and refreshments
16:45-18:00Short talks and poster session:
 
  • Anna K. Stirner (U Cologne): Understanding Physicians' Use of Decision Support: Evidence from a Behavioral Experiment
  • Stefan Lipman (Erasmus U): The Health Choice Questionnaire: A Health-framed Version of the Most Used Measure of Discounting.
  • Kayleigh Sussman (LSE): Personalisation Meets Motivation: Heterogeneous Responses to a Health-Rewards Redesign
  • Ondrej Krcal (Masaryk U): Institutional Factors and the Extraction of Limited Health Resources: Evidence from an Online Experiment
  • Lynn Hua (Georgia State U): Managing Behavioral Hazard: Value-Based Insurance Design and Inertia
  • Sander Boxebeld (Erasmus U): Do the Choice of Payment Vehicle and Priming of Opportunity Costs Affect Expenditure Preferences and Consequentiality Perceptions in a Choice Experiment?
  • Sebastian Neumann-Böhme (U Hamburg): Reducing Inappropriate Emergency Care Use: Evidence from a Vignette-Based Experiment
  • Sandro Stoffel (U Basel): Testing Feedback and Social Norms Messages to Increase Participation: The BestCC Randomized Controlled Trial Among Non-respondents in Population-based Colorectal Cancer Screening Programmes in Tuscany
  • Yoichiro Fujii (Meiji U): Standard Sequences for Utility and Regret in Health and Wealth Losses
  • Sandra Eichardt (U Magdeburg): The Effects of Advice-giving on Medical Upcoding - A Laboratory Experiment
19:00Conference Dinner:
Proeflokaal Lokanta (Waterloostraat 148A, Rotterdam)

 Location: Mandeville building, room T3.02 (3rd floor)

08:30-09:00Coffee
09:00-10:20Session 4: Income and distribution:
 
  • Koen Decancq (U Antwerp): Bounding Equivalent Incomes with the ABDC method: Evidence from the Netherlands
  • Anca Balietti (U Heidelberg): Income Status Perceptions and Air Pollution: Private Adaptation and Public Mitigation
10:20-10:50Coffee break
10:50-11:00BEHnet Management remarks
11:00-12:20Session 5: Information and overconfidence: 
 
  • Salamutu Nanna Adam (CERGE-EI): Statistics and Narratives: Experimental Evidence on HIV Testing in Ghana
  • Lena Merkel (Leibniz Institute for Economic Research): On the Nature and Implications of Overconfidence among Physicians
12:20-13:20Lunch break
13:20-14:40Session 6: Social preferences and provider behavior:
 
  • Simon van der Zandt (Radboud U): The ‘Shared Intention’-Effect: Evidence from 28 million Gym Reservations on the Impact of Joint Exercise Planning on Intention Follow-through
  • Nicolo Gatti (U Cattolica del Sacro Cuore): A Prosocial Legacy of COVID-19 Among Healthcare Professionals
14:40-15:00Coffee break
15:00-16:00Roundtable discussion on “Behavioural and Experimental Economics in Health: Contributions and Future Prospects”:
 with: David Bradford (U Georgia), Glenn Harrison (Georgia State U), Hans van Kippersluis, Kirsten Rohde, Peter Wakker (Erasmus U)
moderated by: Jeannette Brosig-Koch (U Magdeburg)
16:00Closing Remarks

Paper submissions (closed)

Paper submission closed on 30 August 2025. Authors will be notified regarding the acceptance of their paper by 15 October 2025. 

Participation

There are no additional participation fees for participants with accepted presentations or posters. Accompanying persons and other interested parties should contact the event office regarding the costs. Participation is subject to availability.

Registration (closed)

It is no longer possible to register for this workshop.

Scientific committee

  • Silvia Angerer (UMIT Tirol)
  • Arthur Attema (Erasmus U Rotterdam)
  • Robert Böhm (U Vienna)
  • Matteo M. Galizzi (LSE)
  • Glenn W. Harrison (Georgia State U)
  • Kirsten Rohde (University of Maastricht)
  • Matthew Robson (Erasmus U Rotterdam)
  • Daniel Wiesen (U Cologne)

Organising committee

  • Arthur Attema (Erasmus U Rotterdam)
  • Matthew Robson (Erasmus U Rotterdam)
  • Daniel Wiesen (U Cologne & Erasmus U Rotterdam)
  • Liza Moreira (ESHPM, team assistant)

Venue

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Woudestein Campus, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 

Note that the workshop will take place in a different building on Friday 12 December (Mandeville building) than on Thursday 11 December (Langeveld building). 

More information

If you have any questions about the event or the Call for Papers, please contact us at behnet@eshpm.eur.nl.

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