prof.dr.

(Owen) OA O'Donnell

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Owen O'Donnell is Professor of Applied Economics in the Erasmus School of Economics. He is affiliated with the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, and is a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and a Senior Rsearcher at the University of Lausanne. His field of interest is health economics, particularly health inequality, health and labour, health insurance and prevention. He has published in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Development Economics and Demography, among others. He is an Editor of the Journal of Health Economics. He obtained his DPhil from the University of York (UK) and has taught at the universities of Macedonia (GR), Lausanne (CH), Kent (UK) and Wisconsin-Madison (US). 

• All publications (58)

  • Article (42)

    • A.F. Roos, O.A. O'Donnell, F.T. Schut, E.K.A. van Doorslaer, R. van Gestel & M. Varkevisser (2020). Does price deregulation in a competitive hospital market damage quality? Journal of Health Economics, 72:102328. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102328 [go to publisher's site]
    • T.M. Marreiros Bago d'Uva, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2020). Who can predict their Own Demise? Heterogeneity in the Accuracy and Value of Longevity Expectations. Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 17. doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2017.10.003
    • T.G.M. Van Ourti, O.A. O'Donnell, H. Koc, J. Fracheboud & H.J. de Koning (2020). Effect of screening mammography on breast cancer mortality: Quasi-experimental evidence from rollout of the Dutch population-based program with 17-year follow-up of a cohort. International Journal of Cancer, 146 (8). doi: 10.1002/ijc.32584
    • L.R. Buisman, E. Van de Poel, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2019). What explains the fall in child stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa? SSM - Population Health, 8, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100384 [go to publisher's site]
    • S. Neelsen, S. Limwattananon, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2019). Universal health coverage: A (social insurance) job half done? World Development, 113, 246-258. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.004
    • A. Murphy, B. Palafox, O.A. O'Donnell, D. Stuckler, P. Perel, K.F. AlHabib, A. Avezum, X.L. Bai, J. Chifamba, C.K. Chow, D.J. Corsi, G. Dagenais, A.L. Dans, R. Diaz, A.N. Erbakan, N. Ismail, R. Iqbal, R. Kelishadi, R. Khatib, F. Lanas, S.A. Lear, W. Li, J. Liu, P. Lopez-Jaramillo, V. Mohan, N. Monsef, P.K. Mony, T. Puoane, S. Rangarajan, A. Rosengren, A.E.M. Schutte, M. Sintaha, K. Teo, A. Wielgosz, K. Yeates, L. Yin, K. Yusoff, K. Zatonska, S. Yusuf & M. McKee (2018). Inequalities in the use of secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease by socioeconomic status: evidence from the PURE observational study. The Lancet Global Health, 6 (3), E292-E301. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30031-7
    • E.B. French, J. McCauley, M. Aragon, P.L.H. Bakx, M. Chalkley, S. Chen, B.J. Christensen, H. Chuang, A. Côté-Sergent, M. De Nardi, E. Fan, D. Échevin, P.Y. Geoffard, C. Gastaldi-Ménager, M. Gørtz, Y. Ibuka, J. Jones, M. Kallestrup-Lamb, M. Karlsson, T. Klein, G. de Lagasnerie, P. Michaud, O.A. O'Donnell, N. Rice, J. Skinner, E.K.A. van Doorslaer, N. Ziebarth & E. Kelley (2017). End-of-life medical spending in last twelve months of life is lower than previously reported. Health Affairs, 36 (7), 1211-1217. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0174
    • O.A. O'Donnell & S. Neelsen (2017). Progressive Universalism? The Impact of Targeted Coverage on Healthcare Access and Expenditures in Peru. Health Economics, 26 (12), e179-e203. doi: 10.1002/hec.3492
    • O.A. O'Donnell, T.G.M. Van Ourti, S. O'Neil & B. Walsh (2016). conindex: Estimation of Concentration Indices. Stata Journal, 16 (1), 112-138.
    • P.L.H. Bakx, E.K.A. van Doorslaer & O.A. O'Donnell (2016). Spending on Health Care in the Netherlands: Not Going so Dutch. Fiscal Studies (London), 37 (3-4), 593-625. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2016.12114
    • S. Limwattananon, S. Neelsen, O.A. O'Donnell, P. Prakongsai, V. Tangcharoensathien, E.K.A. van Doorslaer & V. Vongmongkol (2015). Universal coverage with supply-side reform: The impact on medical expenditure risk and utilization in Thailand. Journal of Public Economics, 121 (January), 79-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2014.11.012
    • E. van de Poel, G. Flores, P. Ir, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2014). Can vouchers deliver? An evaluation of vouchers for maternal health care in Cambodia. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 91, 331-339. doi: 10.2471/BLT.13.129122
    • C.A.M. de Meijer, O.A. O'Donnell, M.A. Koopmanschap & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2013). Health expenditure growth: Looking beyond the average through decomposition of the full distribution. Journal of Health Economics, 32 (1), 88-105. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.10.009
    • G. Flores, P. Ir, C.R. Men, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2013). Financial Protection of Patients through Compensation of Providers: The Impact of Health Equity Funds in Cambodia. Journal of Health Economics, 32 (6), 1180-93. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.09.012
    • M.P. Garcia Gomez, J.L.W. van Kippersluis, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2013). Long Term and Spillover Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Income. Journal of Human Resources, 48 (4), 873-909. doi: 10.1353/jhr.2013.0031
    • E. van de Poel, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2012). Is there a health penalty of China's rapid urbanization? Health Economics, 21 (4), 367-385. doi: 10.1002/hec.1717
    • E. van de Poel, E.K.A. van Doorslaer & O.A. O'Donnell (2012). Measurement of inequity in health care with heterogeneous response of use to need. Journal of Health Economics, 31 (4), 676-689. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.05.005
    • T.M. Bago d'Uva, M. Lindeboom, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2011). Slipping Anchor? Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity. Journal of Human Resources, 46 (4), 875-906. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.1572319
    • T.M. Bago d'Uva, M. Lindeboom, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2011). Education-related Inequity in Health Care with Heterogeneous Reporting of Health. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A. Statistics in Society, 174 (3), 639-664. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00706.x
    • J.L.W. van Kippersluis, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2011). Long Run Returns to Education: Does Education lead to an Extended Old Age? Journal of Human Resources, 46 (4), 695-721. doi: 10.3368/jhr.46.4.695
    • D. Lambrelli & O.A. O'Donnell (2011). The impotence of price controls: Failed attempts to constrain pharmaceutical expenditures in Greece. Health Policy, 101 (2), 162-171. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.08.023
    • J.L.W. van Kippersluis, O.A. O'Donnell, E.K.A. van Doorslaer & T.G.M. Van Ourti (2010). Socioeconomic Differences in Health over the Lifecycle in an Egalitarian country. Social Science & Medicine, 70 (3), 428-438. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.10.020
    • O.A. O'Donnell (2009). Measuring health inequalities in Europe: Methodological issues in the analysis of survey data. Eurohealth, 15 (3), 10-14.
    • E. van de Poel, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2009). What explains the Rural-Urban Gap in Infant Mortality, Household or Community Characteristics? Demography, 46 (4), 827-850. doi: 10.1353/dem.0.0074
    • E. van de Poel, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2009). Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China. Economics and Human Biology, 7 (2), 200-216. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2009.05.004
    • O.A. O'Donnell, A. Lopez-Nicolas & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2009). Growing richer, growing taller: explaining change in the distribution of child height during Vietnam's economic boom. Journal of Development Economics, 88 (1), 45-58. doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.01.004
    • G.M. Leung, K.Y.K. Tin & O.A. O'Donnell (2009). Redistribution or horizontal equity in Hong Kong’s mixed public-private health system: a policy conundrum. Health Economics, 18 (1), 37-54. doi: 10.1002/hec.1342
    • T.M. Bago d'Uva, E.K.A. van Doorslaer, M. Lindeboom & O.A. O'Donnell (2008). Does Reporting Heterogeneity bias the Measurement of Health Disparities. Health Economics, 17 (3), 351-375. doi: 10.1002/hec.1269 [go to publisher's site]
    • T.M. Bago d'Uva, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2008). Differential health reporting by education level and its impact on the measurement of health inequalities among older Europeans. International Journal of Epidemiology, 37 (6), 1375-1383. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyn146 [go to publisher's site]
    • O.A. O'Donnell, E.K.A. van Doorslaer, R.P. Rannan-Eliya, A. Somanathan, S.R. Adhikari, B. Akkazieva, D. Harbianto, C.C. Garg, P. Hanvoravongchai, A.N. Herrin, M.N. Huq, S. Ibragimova, A. Karan, S.M. Kwon, G.M. Leung, J.F.R. Lu, Y. Ohkusa, B.R. Pande, R. Racelis, K. Tin, K. Tisayaticom, L. Trisnantoro, Q. Wan, B.M. Yang & Y. Zhao (2008). Who pays for health care in Asia? Journal of Health Economics, 27 (2), 460-475. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2007.08.005
    • G. Floris, J. Krishnakumar, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2008). Coping with health-care costs: implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and poverty. Health Economics, 17 (12), 1393-1412. doi: 10.1002/hec.1338 [go to publisher's site]
    • O.A. O'Donnell, E.K.A. van Doorslaer, R.P. Rannan-Eliya, A. Somanathan, S.R. Adhikari, D. Harbianto, C.C. Garg, P. Hanvoravongchai, N. Huq, A. Karan, G.M. Leung, K.Y.A. Ng, B.R. Pande, K. Tin, L. Trisnantoro, C. Vasavid, Y. Zhang & Y. Zhao (2007). The incidence of public spending on health care: comparative evidence from Asia. The World Bank Economic Review, 21 (11), 93-123.
    • J.F.R. Lu, G.M. Leung, S. Kwon, K.Y.K. Tin, E.K.A. van Doorslaer & O.A. O'Donnell (2007). Horizontal equity in health care utilization - evidence from three high-income Asian economics. Social Science & Medicine, 64 (1), 199-212. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.08.033
    • E.K.A. van Doorslaer, O.A. O'Donnell, R.P. Rannan-Eliya, A. Somanathan, S.R. Adhikari, B. Akkazieva, D. Harbianto, C.C. Garg, P. Hanvoravongchai, A.N. Herrin, N. Huq, S. Ibragimova, A. Karan, T.J. Lee, G.M. Leung, J.F.R. Lu, K.Y.A. Ng, B.R. Pande, R. Racelis, S. Tao, K. Tin, L. Trisnantoro, C. Vasavid, B.M. Yang & Y. Zhao (2007). Castastrophic payments for health care in Asia. Health Economics, 16 (11), 1159-1184. doi: 10.1002/hec.1209
    • O.A. O'Donnell (2007). Access to health care in devoleping countries: Breaking down barriers on the demand side. Public Health, 16 (11), 1-15.
    • E. van de Poel, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2007). Are urban children really healthier? Evidence from 47 developing countries. Social Science & Medicine, 65. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.06.032
    • E.K.A. van Doorslaer, O.A. O'Donnell, R.P. Rannan-Eliya, A. Somanathan, S.R. Adhikari, C.C. Garg, D. Harbianto, A.N. Herrin, M. Nazmul Hug, S. Ibragimova, A. Karan, C. Wan Ng, B.R. Pande, R. Racelis, S. Tao, K. Tin, K. Tisayaticom, L. Trisnantoro & C. Vasavid (2006). Effect of payments or health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: an analysis of houshold survey data. Lancet (VS), 368, 1357-1364. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69560-3
    • O.A. O'Donnell, F. Rosati & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2005). Health effects of child work: Evidence from rural Vietnam. Journal of Population Economics, 18 (3), 437-467. doi: 10.1007/s00148-004-0197-y
    • O.A. O'Donnell, F. Rosati & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2004). Health effects of childwork: evidence from rural Vietnam. Journal of Population Economics, 1-1.
    • E.K.A. van Doorslaer, A. Wagstaff, H. van der Burg, T. Christiansen, D. de Graeve, I. Duchesne, U.G. Gerdtham, M. Gerfin, J. Geurts, L. Gross, U. Hakkinen, J. John, J. Klavus, R.E. Leu, B. Nolan, O.A. O'Donnell, C. Propper, F. Puffer, M. Schellhorn, G. Sundberg & O. Winkelhake (2000). Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US. Journal of Health Economics, 19, 553-583. doi: 10.1016/S0167-6296(00)00050-3
    • E.K.A. van Doorslaer, A. Wagstaff, H. Bleichrodt, S. Calonge, U.G. Gerdtham, M. Gerfin, J.L.A. Geurts, L. Gross, U. Hakkinen, R.E. Leu, O.A. O'Donnell, C. Propper, F. Puffer, M. Rodriguez, G. Sundberg & O. Winkelhake (1997). Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons. Journal of Health Economics, 16, 93-112. doi: 10.1016/S0167-6296(96)00532-2
    • O.A. O'Donnell & C. Propper (1991). Equity and the distribution of UK National Health Service resources: Reply. Journal of Health Economics, 10, 247-249.

  • Book / Monograph / Book editorial (2)

    • P. Rosa Dias & O.A. O'Donnell (2013). Research on Economic Inequality Volume 21: Health and Inequality. Bingley: Emerald
    • O.A. O'Donnell, E.K.A. van Doorslaer, A. Wagstaff & M. Lindelow (2007). Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation. Washington DC: World Bank 2007

  • Part of book - Chapter (8)

    • O.A. O'Donnell & T.G.M. Van Ourti (2020). Dominance analysis. In Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis: Quantifying Health Equity Impacts and Trade-Offs. Oxford: Oxford University Press
    • O.A. O'Donnell (2020). Financial Protection Against Medical Expense. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Health Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press
    • O.A. O'Donnell & T.G.M. Van Ourti (2020). Rank-dependent equity weights. In Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis: Quantifying Health Equity Impacts and Trade-Offs. Oxford: oxford university press
    • Z. Yilma, O.A. O'Donnell, A. Mebratie, G. Alemu & A.S. Bedi (2018). Subjective Expectations of Medical Expenditures and Insurance in Rural Ethiopia. In B.H. Baltagi & F. Moscone (Eds.), Health Econometrics (Contributions to Economic Analysis, 294) (pp. 23-55). Bingley, UK: Emerald doi: 10.1108/S0573-855520180000294002
    • O.A. O'Donnell, E.K.A. van Doorslaer & T.G.M. Van Ourti (2015). Health and Inequality. In A.B. Atkinson & F. Bourguignon (Eds.), Handbook of Income Distribution vol. 2B (pp. 1419-1533). Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59429-7.00018-2
    • K. Moschetti, K. Lamiraud, O.A. O'Donnell & A. Holly (2011). Does Poor Childhood Health Explain Increased Health Care Utilisation and Payments in Middle and Old Age? In A. Börsch-Supan, M. Brandt, K. Hank & M. Schröder (Eds.), The Individual and the Welfare State. Life Histories in Europe. Heidelberg: Springer
    • E.K.A. van Doorslaer & O.A. O'Donnell (2010). Measurement and explanation of inequality in health and health care in low-income settings. In M. McGillivray, I. Dutta & D. Lawson (Eds.), Health inequality and development, Studies in Development Economics and Policy (Studies in Development Economics and Policy) (pp. 20-2). Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan
    • O.A. O'Donnell, E.K.A. van Doorslaer & A. Wagstaff (2006). Decomposition of inequalities in health and health care. In A.M. Jones (Ed.), The Elgar Companion to Health Economics (pp. 179-192). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

  • Journal editorship / Referee (1)

    • O.A. O'Donnell (Ed.). (2018-2018) Journal of Health Economics. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.27

  • Report (5)

    • Z.Y. Debebe, O.A. O'Donnell, A.D. Mebratie, G. Alemu & A.S. Bedi (2015). Subjective expectations of medical expenditures and insurance in rural Ethiopia. (Preprints, ISS working papers. General series, no 611). The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies
    • T.M. Bago d'Uva, E. Erdogan Ciftci, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2015). Who Can Predict their Own Demise? Heterogeneity in the Accuracy of Longevity Expectations. (Preprints, TI Discussion Paper, no TI 2015-052/V). : Tinbergen Institute
    • S. Neelsen, S. Limwattananon, O.A. O'Donnell & E.K.A. van Doorslaer (2015). Economic Impact of Illness with Health Insurance but without Income Insurance. (Preprints, TI Discussion Paper, no TI 2015-060/V). : Tinbergen Institute [go to publisher's site]
    • G. Flores & O.A. O'Donnell (2012). Catastrophic medical expenditure risk. (Preprints). Amsterdam: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper TI 2012-078/3
    • E.K.A. van Doorslaer, J.L.W. van Kippersluis, O.A. O'Donnell & T.G.M. Van Ourti (2008). Socioeconomic differences in health over the life cycle: evidence and explanations. (Extern rapport, no 12). Tilburg: Netspar Panel Paper

• Ancillary activities (2)

  University of Lausanne

  Start date approval

  Mar/2016

  End date approval

  Dec/2021

  Place

  LAUSANNE

  Elsevier (Journal of Health Economics)

  Start date approval

  Feb/2019

  End date approval

  Dec/2021

  Place

  AMSTERDAM (WORK ONLINE)

  Description

  Editorial

• Teaching (5)

  Economics of the Welfare State

  Title

  Economics of the Welfare State

  Year

  2020

  Year level

  bachelor 2, bachelor 3

  Economics of the Welfare State

  Title

  Economics of the Welfare State

  Year

  2020

  Year level

  bachelor 2, bachelor 3

  Master Thesis HE

  Title

  Master Thesis HE

  Year

  2020

  Year level

  master, master

  Health Economics

  Title

  Health Economics

  Year

  2020

  Year level

  Master

  Master Thesis HEPL

  Title

  Master Thesis HEPL

  Year

  2020

  Year level

  master

• PhD list (2)

  • Wen Qian Toh

    Economics of medical adherence

    • 2018 -

  • Silvia Garcia Mandico

    “Earnings Capacity of Disability Insurance Claimants”

    • 2015 -

• Editorial positions (1)

  Journal of Health Economics

  Role

  Editor

  Start date approval

  Jan/2018

  End date approval

  Dec/2023

• Present position

  Full Professor

  University

  Erasmus University Rotterdam

  School

  Erasmus School of Economics

  Department

  Applied Economics

  Country

  The Netherlands

  Telephone

  01081477

• Other positions (1)

  University of Lausanne

  Role

  Senior Researcher

  Obtained Wage

  yes

  Start date approval

  Mar/2016

  End date approval

  Dec/2021