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(Arthur) AE Attema

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Arthur E. Attema is an Associate 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).

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.

• Featured publications (5)

  • 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

• All publications (60)

  • Key publication (5)

    • 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

  • Article (52)

    • Scholarly Publication (47)

      • A.E. Attema, O. l'Haridon, J. Raude, V. Seror & T. Coconel Group (2021). Beliefs and Risk Perceptions About COVID-19: Evidence From Two Successive French Representative Surveys During Lockdown. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:619145. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.619145
      • S.A. Lipman, W.B.F. Brouwer & A.E. Attema (2020). Living up to expectations: Experimental tests of subjective life expectancy as reference point in time trade-off and standard gamble. Journal of Health Economics, 71:102318. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102318 [go to publisher's site]
      • A.E. Attema, H. Bleichrodt, O. l'Haridon & S.A. Lipman (2020). A comparison of individual and collective decision making for standard gamble and time trade-off. The European Journal Of Health Economics, 21, 465-473. doi: 10.1007/s10198-019-01155-x [go to publisher's site]
      • S.A. Lipman & A.E. Attema (2020). Good things come to those who wait—Decreasing impatience for health gains and losses. PLoS One (print), 15 (3). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229784 [go to publisher's site]
      • S.A. Lipman, W.B.F. Brouwer & A.E. Attema (2020). What is it going to be, TTO or SG? A direct test of the validity of health state valuation. Health Economics, 29 (11), 1475-1481. doi: 10.1002/hec.4131
      • S.A. Lipman & A.E. Attema (2019). Rabin's Paradox for Health Outcomes. Health Economics, 28 (8), 1064-1071. doi: 10.1002/hec.3918 [go to publisher's site]
      • 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]
      • S.A. Lipman, W.B.F. Brouwer & A.E. Attema (2019). A QALY loss is a QALY loss is a QALY loss: a note on independence of loss aversion from health states. The European Journal Of Health Economics, 20 (3), 419-426. doi: 10.1007/s10198-018-1008-9 [go to publisher's site]
      • S.A. Lipman, W.B.F. Brouwer & A.E. Attema (2019). QALYs without bias? Non-parametric correction of time trade-off and standard gamble weights based on prospect theory. Health Economics, 28 (7), 843-854. doi: 10.1002/hec.3895 [go to publisher's site]
      • A.E. Attema, L.S. He, A.J.C. Cook & V.J. Del Rio Vilas (2019). Unbiased assessment of disease surveillance utilities: a prospect theory application. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (online), 13 (5):e0007364. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007364 [go to publisher's site]
      • S.A. Lipman, W.B.F. Brouwer & A.E. Attema (2019). The corrective approach: policy implications of recent developments in QALY measurement based on prospect theory. Value in Health, 22 (7), 816-821. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2019.01.013 [go to publisher's site]
      • M.M. Versteegh, A.E. Attema & C.A. Uyl - de Groot (2019). Is verlies winst? Stoppen met TNF-α-blokkers. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde.
      • 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, H. Bleichrodt & O. l'Haridon (2018). Ambiguity preferences for health. Health Economics, 27 (11), 1699-1716. doi: 10.1002/hec.3795
      • 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, 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, W.B.F. Brouwer & K. Claxton (2018). Discounting in economic evaluations. Pharmacoeconomics (Print), 36 (7), 745-758. doi: 10.1007/s40273-018-0672-z
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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, 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 (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
      • 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
      • 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, 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 & 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 & 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 & 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, 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 & 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 & 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, 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
      • 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 (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
      • 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). 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 & 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, 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, 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 (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).

    • Professional Publication (5)

      • M.M. Versteegh, A.E. Attema & C.A. Uyl - de Groot (2019). Is verlies winst? Stoppen met TNF-alfaremmers. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 163:D3709. [go to publisher's site]
      • 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.

  • Part of book - Chapter (2)

    • J.L. Pinto-Prades, A.E. Attema & F.I. Sanchez-Martinez (2019). Measuring Health Utility in Economics. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford: Oxford University Press [go to publisher's site] doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.85
    • 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

  • Doctoral thesis (1)

    • 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.

• Teaching (5)

  Master HEPL-HE 2020-2021

  Title

  Master HEPL-HE 2020-2021

  Year

  2020

  Behavioural Decision Theory in Health

  Title

  Behavioural Decision Theory in Health

  Year

  2020

  Year level

  master, master, master

  Master Thesis HEPL

  Title

  Master Thesis HEPL

  Year

  2020

  Year level

  master

  Analysing and changing unhealthy behavio

  Title

  Analysing and changing unhealthy behavio

  Year

  2020

  Year level

  Bachelor 3

  Master Thesis HE

  Title

  Master Thesis HE

  Year

  2020

  Year level

  master, master

• Editorial positions (1)

  Journal of Health Economics

  Role

  Associate Editor

  Start date approval

  Jul/2020

• Present position

  Associate Professor

  University

  Erasmus University Rotterdam

  School

  Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management

  Department

  Health Economics (HE)

  Country

  The Netherlands

  Telephone

  0104089129