dr. (Arthur) A.E. Attema

- Location
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Room
- J 8-47
- Telephone
- +31 10 4089129
- attema@eshpm.eur.nl
Profile
Arthur E. Attema is an EUR Fellow and assistant professor at the Health Economics department of ESHPM. His main research interests include behavioral and experimental 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 member of the Behavioral Economics Group and management board member of the Behavioral Experiments in Health…
Arthur E. Attema is an EUR Fellow and assistant professor at the Health Economics department of ESHPM. His main research interests include behavioral and experimental 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 member of the Behavioral Economics Group and management board member of the Behavioral Experiments in Health Network (BEHnet), programme director of the Research Master "Health Science - Health Economic Analysis", and organizer of the Rotterdam Health Economics Seminar Series.
Arthur has won the NVTAG MTA award 2012/2013 for innovative research in MTA methodology. In 2015 and 2017, he was listed in ESB's Top 40 of economists located in the Netherlands, based on quality-weighted publications.
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer, O. l'Haridon & J.L. Pinto-Prades (2016). An elicitation of utility for quality of life under prospect theory. Journal of Health Economics, 48, 121-134. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.04.002
- A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt, Y. Gao, Z. Huang & P.P. Wakker (2016). Measuring Discounting without Measuring Utility. The American Economic Review, 106 (6), 1476-1494. doi: 10.1257/aer.20150208
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer & O. l'Haridon (2013). Prospect theory in the health domain: A quantitative assessment. Journal of Health Economics, 32, 1057-1065. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.08.006
- A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt & P.P. Wakker (2012). A Direct Method for Measuring Discounting and QALYs more Easily and Reliably. Medical Decision Making, 32 (4), 583-593. doi: 10.1177/0272989X12451654
- M. Abdellaoui, A.E. Attema & H. Bleichrodt (2010). Intertemporal tradeoffs for gains and losses: an experimental measurement of discounted utility. The Economic Journal, 120 (545), 845-866. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02308.x
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer, O. l'Haridon & J.L. Pinto-Prades (2016). An elicitation of utility for quality of life under prospect theory. Journal of Health Economics, 48, 121-134. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.04.002
- A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt, Y. Gao, Z. Huang & P.P. Wakker (2016). Measuring Discounting without Measuring Utility. The American Economic Review, 106 (6), 1476-1494. doi: 10.1257/aer.20150208
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer & O. l'Haridon (2013). Prospect theory in the health domain: A quantitative assessment. Journal of Health Economics, 32, 1057-1065. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.08.006
- A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt & P.P. Wakker (2012). A Direct Method for Measuring Discounting and QALYs more Easily and Reliably. Medical Decision Making, 32 (4), 583-593. doi: 10.1177/0272989X12451654
- M. Abdellaoui, A.E. Attema & H. Bleichrodt (2010). Intertemporal tradeoffs for gains and losses: an experimental measurement of discounted utility. The Economic Journal, 120 (545), 845-866. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02308.x
- A.E. Attema, O. l'Haridon & G. van de Kuilen (2019). Measuring multivariate risk preferences in the health domain. Journal of Health Economics, 64, 15-24. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.12.004 [go to publisher's site]
- A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt, O. l'Haridon, P. Peretti-Watel & V. Seror (2018). Discounting health and money: New evidence using a more robust method. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 56 (2), 117-140. doi: 10.1007/s11166-018-9279-1
- A.E. Attema & S.A. Lipman (2018). Decreasing impatience for health outcomes and its relation with healthy behavior. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 4, 1-8. doi: 10.3389/fams.2018.00016
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer & J.L. Pinto-Prades (2018). Peer effects in health valuation: The relation between rating of contemporaries' health and own health. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 16 (1):148. doi: 10.1186/s12955-018-0978-8
- S.A. Lipman, W.B.F. Brouwer & A.E. Attema (2018). A QALY loss is a QALY loss is a QALY loss: a note on independence of loss aversion from health states. European Journal of Health Economics (HEPAC), 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s10198-018-1008-9
- A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt & O. l'Haridon (2018). Ambiguity preferences for health. Health Economics, 27 (11), 1699-1716. doi: 10.1002/hec.3795
- A.E. Attema, H.M. Krol, N.J.A. van Exel & W.B.F. Brouwer (2018). New findings from the time trade-off for income approach to elicit willingness to pay for a quality adjusted life year. European Journal of Health Economics (HEPAC), 19 (2), 277-291. doi: 10.1007/s10198-017-0883-9
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer & K. Claxton (2018). Discounting in economic evaluations. Pharmacoeconomics (Print), 36 (7), 745-758. doi: 10.1007/s40273-018-0672-z
- T. Rouyard, A.E. Attema, R. Baskerville, J. Leal & A. Gray (2018). Risk attitudes of people with ‘manageable’ chronic disease: An analysis under prospect theory. Social Science & Medicine, 214, 144-153. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.007
- M.F. Jonker, A.E. Attema, B. Donkers, E.A. Stolk & M.M. Versteegh (2017). Are Health State Valuations from the General Public Biased? A Test of Health State Reference Dependency Using Self-assessed Health and an Efficient Discrete Choice Experiment. Health Economics, 26 (12), 1534-1547. doi: 10.1002/hec.3445
- H.M. Krol, A.E. Attema, N.J.A. van Exel & W.B.F. Brouwer (2016). Altruistic preferences in TTO: Consideration of effects on others in health state valuations. Medical Decision Making, 36 (2), 187-198. doi: 10.1177/0272989X15615870
- C.J. Tilling, H.M. Krol, A.E. Attema, A. Tsuchiya, J. Brazier, N.J.A. van Exel & W.B.F. Brouwer (2016). Exploring a new method for deriving the monetary value of a QALY. European Journal of Health Economics (HEPAC), 17 (7), 801-809. doi: 10.1007/s10198-015-0722-9
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer, O. l'Haridon & J.L. Pinto-Prades (2016). An elicitation of utility for quality of life under prospect theory. Journal of Health Economics, 48, 121-134. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.04.002
- A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt, Y. Gao, Z. Huang & P.P. Wakker (2016). Measuring Discounting without Measuring Utility. The American Economic Review, 106 (6), 1476-1494. doi: 10.1257/aer.20150208
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer, O. l'Haridon & J.L. Pinto-Prades (2015). Estimating sign-dependent societal preferences for quality of life. Journal of Health Economics, 43, 229-243. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.07.006
- A.E. Attema (2015). Incorporating sign-dependence in health-related social welfare functions. Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research, 15 (2), 223-228. doi: 10.1586/14737167.2015.995170
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer & N.J.A. van Exel (2014). Your right arm for a publication in AER? Economic Inquiry, 52 (1), 495-502. doi: 10.1111/ecin.12013
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2014). Deriving time discounting correction factors for TTO tariffs. Health Economics, 23 (4), 410-425. doi: 10.1002/hec.2921
- A.E. Attema, W.B.F. Brouwer & O. l'Haridon (2013). Prospect theory in the health domain: A quantitative assessment. Journal of Health Economics, 32, 1057-1065. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.08.006
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2013). In search of a preferred preference elicitation method: A test of the internal consistency of choice and matching tasks. Journal of Economic Psychology, 39, 126-140. doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2013.07.009
- M.M. Versteegh, A.E. Attema, M. Oppe, N. Devlin & E.A. Stolk (2013). Time to tweak the TTO: results from a comparison of alternative specifications of the TTO. European Journal of Health Economics (HEPAC), 14 (1), 43-51. doi: 10.1007/s10198-013-0507-y
- A.E. Attema, Y. Edelaar-Peeters, M.M. Versteegh & E.A. Stolk (2013). Time trade-off: one methodology, different methods. European Journal of Health Economics (HEPAC), 14 (1), 53-64. doi: 10.1007/s10198-013-0508-x
- A.E. Attema, M.M. Versteegh, M. Oppe, W.B.F. Brouwer & E.A. Stolk (2013). LEAD TIME TTO: LEADING TO BETTER HEALTH STATE VALUATIONS. Health Economics, 22 (4), 376-392. doi: 10.1002/hec.2804
- A.E. Attema & M.M. Versteegh (2013). Would you rather be ill now, or later? Health Economics, 22 (12), 1496-1506. doi: 10.1002/hec.2894
- A.E. Attema (2012). Developments in time preference and their implications for medical decision making. European Journal of Operational Research, 63 (10), 1388-1399. doi: 10.1057/jors.2011.137
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2012). A test of indepence of discounting from quality of life. Journal of Health Economics, 31, 22-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.12.001
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2012). The way that you do it? An elaborate test of procedural invariance of TTO, using a choice-based design. The European Journal Of Health Economics, 13, 491-500. doi: 10.1007/s10198-011-0318-y
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2012). Constantly Proving The Opposite? A test of CPTO using a broad time horizon and correcting for discounting. Quality of Life Research, 21 (1), 25-34. doi: 10.1007/s11136-011-9917-4
- A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt & P.P. Wakker (2012). A Direct Method for Measuring Discounting and QALYs more Easily and Reliably. Medical Decision Making, 32 (4), 583-593. doi: 10.1177/0272989X12451654
- M. Abdellaoui, A.E. Attema & H. Bleichrodt (2010). Intertemporal tradeoffs for gains and losses: an experimental measurement of discounted utility. The Economic Journal, 120 (545), 845-866. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02308.x
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2010). On the (not so) constant proportional trade-off in TTO. Quality of Life Research, 19, 489-497. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9605-9
- A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt, K.I.M. Rohde & P.P. Wakker (2010). Time-Tradeoff Sequences for Analyzing Discounting and Time Inconsistency. Management Science, 56 (11), 2015-2030. doi: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1219
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2010). The Value of Correcting Values: Influence and Importance of Correcting TTO Scores for Time Preference. Value in Health, 13 (8), 879-884. doi: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2010.00773.x
- A.E. Attema, A.K. Lugnér & T.L. Feenstra (2010). Investment in antiviral drugs: a real options approach. Health Economics, 19, 1240-1254. doi: 10.1002/hec.1549
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2009). The correction of TTO-scores for utility curvature using a risk-free utility elicitation method. Journal of Health Economics, 28, 234-243. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.10.004
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2008). Can we fix it? Yes we can! But what? A new test of procedural invariance in TTO-measurement. Health Economics, 17, 877-885. doi: 10.1002/hec.1315
- A.E. Attema (2006). Measuring pronesess to arbitrage using only pencil and paper. Medium Econometrische Toepassingen, 14 (4).
- A.E. Attema (2017). Economische inzichten in stimulatie van gezond gedrag: de voor- en nadelen van een financiële prikkel. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 161:D1933. [go to publisher's site]
- A.E. Attema (2017). De meting van maatschappelijke voorkeuren voor gezondheid(szorg) vanuit een gedragseconomisch perspectief. TPEdigitaal, 11 (2), 36-48.
- A.E. Attema (2009). De TTO-methode en correctie voor tijdsvoorkeur. VGE Bulletin, 2 (26), 14-17.
- A.E. Attema (2008). De rol van tijdsvoorkeur bij de waardering van gezondheid. TPEdigitaal, 2 (4), 92-105.
- A.E. Attema & W.B.F. Brouwer (2014). Constant proportional trade-offs and health state evaluations. In AC Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (pp. 1207-1212). Dordrecht: Springer
- A.E. Attema (2008, januari 25). Studies on intertemporral preferences with applications to health economics. EUR (254 pag.) (Rotterdam) Prom./coprom.: prof.dr. H. Bleichrodt & prof.dr. P.P. Wakker.
Bachelorscriptie
- Title
- Bachelorscriptie
- Year
- 2018
- Year level
- (bachelor 3)
Advanced Economic Evaluation (Eu-HEM)
- Title
- Advanced Economic Evaluation (Eu-HEM)
- Year
- 2018
- Year level
- (master)
Behavioural Decision Theory in Health
- Title
- Behavioural Decision Theory in Health
- Year
- 2018
- Year level
- (master) (master) (master)
Master Thesis HEPL
- Title
- Master Thesis HEPL
- Year
- 2018
- Year level
- (master)
Health Economics
- Role
- Referee
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
- Role
- Referee
Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research
- Role
- Referee
Journal of Health Economics
- Role
- Referee
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
- Role
- Referee
Medical Decision Making
- Role
- Referee
Quality of Life Research
- Role
- Referee
Social Science & Medicine
- Role
- Referee
Theory and Decision
- Role
- Referee
Value in Health
- Role
- Referee
Economics and Human Biology
- Role
- Referee
Journal of Socio-economics
- Role
- Referee
Social Indicators Research
- Role
- Referee
Economic Inquiry
- Role
- Ad Hoc Reviewer
European Economic Review
- Role
- Ad Hoc Reviewer
Pharmacoeconomics (Print)
- Role
- Referee
Assistant Professor
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- Department
- Health Economics (HE)
- Country
- Nederland
- Telephone
- +31 10 4089129