Biography
Arthur E. Attema is an Associate Professor at the Health Economics department of ESHPM. His main research interests include behavioral and experimental health economics, utility theory and measurement, and intertemporal choice. Arthur obtained an MSc degree in Economics at the University of Amsterdam (cum laude) and an MSc degree in Health Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds a PhD degree from the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam, for his dissertation on intertemporal preferences with applications to health economics, under supervision of Prof. Han Bleichrodt and Prof. Peter P. Wakker. Arthur is associate editor for Journal of Health Economics, coordinator editor of Theory and Decision, and management board member of the Behavioral Experiments in Health Network (BEHnet). Arthur has won the NVTAG MTA award, an EUR Fellowship, and an NWO Open Competition L Grant. In 2015, 2017, and 2021, he was listed in ESB's Top 40 of economists located in the Netherlands, based on quality-weighted publications, and in 2024 he was listed 20th in ESB's Top 25 of Assistant/Associate Professor.
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Associate professor | Health Economics (HE)
- attema@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- Arthur E. Attema, Marcello Antonini, Mesfin Genie, Aleksandra Torbica & Francesco Paolucci (2025) - Time preferences and COVID-19 vaccination uptake - European Journal of Health Economics - doi: 10.1007/s10198-025-01801-7 - [link]
- Marcello Antonini, Mesfin G. Genie, Katie Attwell, Arthur E. Attema, Jeremy K. Ward, Alessia Melegaro, Aleksandra Torbica, Brian Kelly, Chiara Berardi, Ana Rita Sequeira, Neil McGregor, Adrian Kellner, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Madeleine Hinwood, LiubovÄ— MurauskienÄ—, Daiga Behmane, Zsolt J. Balogh, Terje P. Hagen & Francesco Paolucci (2025) - Are we ready for the next pandemic? Public preferences and trade-offs between vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions across 21 countries - Social Science and Medicine, 366 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117687 - [link]
- Stefan A. Lipman & Arthur E. Attema (2024) - A systematic review of unique methods for measuring discount rates - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 69 (2), 145-189 - doi: 10.1007/s11166-024-09439-1 - [link]
- Marcello Antonini, Mesfin G. Genie, Arthur E. Attema, Katie Attwell, Zsolt J. Balogh, Daiga Behmane, Chiara Berardi, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Andrew Greenland, Terje P. Hagen, Madeleine Hinwood, Carole James, Adrian Kellner, Brian Kelly, LiubovÄ— MurauskienÄ—, Neil McGregor, Alessia Melegaro, Naomi Moy, Ana Rita Sequeira, Renu Singh, Aleksandra Torbica, Jeremy K. Ward, Dongyue Yang & Francesco Paolucci (2024) - Public preferences for vaccination campaigns in the COVID-19 endemic phase: insights from the VaxPref database - Health Policy and Technology, 13 (1) - doi: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2024.100849 - [link]
- Arthur E. Attema & Zhihua Li (2024) - Reference-dependent discounting - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 69 (1), 57-83 - doi: 10.1007/s11166-024-09432-8 - [link]
- Arthur E. Attema, Zhongyu Lang & Stefan A. Lipman (2023) - Can Independently Elicited Adult- and Child-Perspective Health-State Utilities Explain Priority Setting? - Value in Health, 26 (11), 1645-1654 - doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2023.08.002 - [link]
- Arthur E. Attema, Olivier L’Haridon & Gijs van de Kuilen (2023) - An experimental investigation of social risk preferences for health - Theory and Decision, 95 (3), 379-403 - doi: 10.1007/s11238-023-09928-w - [link]
- Sebastian Neumann-Böhme, Iryna Sabat, Carolin Brinkmann, Arthur E. Attema, Tom Stargardt, Jonas Schreyögg & Werner Brouwer (2023) - Jumping the Queue: Willingness to Pay for Faster Access to COVID-19 Vaccines in Seven European Countries - PharmacoEconomics, 41 (10), 1389-1402 - doi: 10.1007/s40273-023-01284-5 - [link]
- Zhongyu Lang, Arthur E. Attema & Stefan A. Lipman (2023) - The effect of duration and time preference on the gap between adult and child health state valuations in time trade-off - European Journal of Health Economics, 25 (4), 601-613 - doi: 10.1007/s10198-023-01612-8 - [link]
- Arthur E. Attema, Olivier L'Haridon & Gijs van de Kuilen (2023) - Decomposing social risk preferences for health and wealth - Journal of Health Economics, 90 - doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102757 - [link]
- Arthur Attema (2022) - Theory and Decision (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic - Arthur Attema (2022) - Decomposing social risk preferences for health and wealth (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Arthur Attema (2021) - HCHE Seminar (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Arthur Attema (2020) - Journal of Health Economics (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic - AE (Arthur) Attema (2020) - Hitotsubashi University (Visiting researcher)
Activiteit: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Arthur Attema (2012) - Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Visiting researcher)
Activiteit: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Arthur Attema (2009) - The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activiteit: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Arthur Attema (2006) - École normale supérieure de Cachan (Visiting researcher)
Activiteit: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic
- Arthur Attema & Werner Brouwer (2024) - Open Competition L Grant
- AE (Arthur) Attema (2016) - EUR Fellowship
- AE (Arthur) Attema (2014) - NVTAG Prize
- AE (Arthur) Attema (2006) - Chorafas Prize
Master HEPL-HE 2024-2025
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GWMTTHEPL
Master Thesis HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4555M
Behavioural Decision Theory in Health
- Year Level
- master, master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4548M
Analysing and changing unhealthy behavio
- Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GWMINOR03
Master Thesis HE
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW4592M
