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EcoEchoes

Hello, listeners! In 2024, a professor and a group of PhD students decided it was time to give research in health economics a voice (or set of voices!). Through this podcast, we aim to reveal the stories behind health economics research, create a resource for PhD students, academics, and anyone with an interest in this field, review key conferences and share tips that help us make our way in academia.

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Episode 40: Niek Mouter and Participatory Value...

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2026/10/06

Karen and Fanny talk to Niek Mouter, Associate professor at Delft University of Technology and co-founder of the start-up Populytics. We talk about the birth of the participatory value evaluation (PVE), a method which elicits peoples' preferences over the allocation of budgets for different public policies. We discuss quite in detail how to design and conduct PVEs, and briefly go over a specific case study in Peru (which was joint work with Karen).Guest: Niek Mouter Hosts: Karen Trujillo Jara and

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45:50

Episode 39: Jonathan Sicsic and Preferences for...

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2026/09/22

This episode’s guest is Jonathan Sicsic, Associate professor of Economics at Université Paris Cité. We first discuss his paper "Home over institution? New insights on older adults’ care preferences from a mixed-methods study in France" together with Jonathan SicsicHost: Fanny Tallgren

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Episode 38: Pieter van Baal on Pharmaceutical...

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2026/05/26

This episode’s guest is Pieter van Baal, Professor of Public Health Economics at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management and head of the Health Economics department. The conversation explores pharmaceutical pricing, patents, and innovation incentives, discussing why healthcare systems negotiate medicine prices and whether the current model for developing innovative medicines is functioning effectively. Pieter reflects on the role of governments, pharmaceutical companies, and public

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46:23

Episode 37: Frédérique Franken on Sustainability in...

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2026/04/07

This episode’s guest is Frédérique Franken, a PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM). She discusses her research on the environmental sustainability of healthcare, focusing on the role of insurer–provider contract negotiations in driving greener practices. The conversation explores how healthcare systems contribute to climate change, the Dutch policy context (including the Green Deal Sustainable Healthcare), and the challenges of translating sustainability

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41:42

Episode 36: Elisa de Weerd on Transgender Transition...

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2026/03/10

This episode’s guest is Elisa de Weerd, a PhD candidate in Health Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics and incoming postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University. She discusses her research on employment and earnings dynamics before and after transgender transitioning using Dutch administrative data. The conversation explores how large-scale administrative datasets can help study labor market inequalities faced by transgender individuals, the methodological challenges of identifying

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54:47

Episode 35: Johannes Cordier on Machine Learning,...

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2026/02/09

This episode features Johannes Cordier, a visiting PhD student from the University of St. Gallen at Erasmus University Rotterdam.Johannes discusses two papers using Swiss hospital administrative data. The first examines how machine learning methods can identify under-reported sepsis cases, shedding light on how coding practices and reimbursement incentives affect data quality. The second studies how patient placement across hospital wards influences mortality, combining causal machine learning

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43:28

Episode 34: Sanna Azzouz on Treating Ventricular...

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2026/01/12

This episode’s guest is Sanna Azzouz, PhD candidate in Health Technology Assessment at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She discusses her paper "Cost-effectiveness analysis of image-guided ablation versus conventional ablation in patients with recurrent ventricular tachycardia in France: results from the inEurHeart trial".The conversation covers how ventricular tachycardia develops after myocardial infarction, the clinical and economic trade-offs between different treatment options, and how AI-based

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62:43

Episode 33: Stefan Lipman on Promoting healthy...

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2025/12/16

In this episode, Stefan Lipman, Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam), discusses with us how financial incentives can be used to promote healthy behaviour. The conversation covers incentive design (carrots vs. sticks), ethical and equity considerations, funding and cost-effectiveness, the role of structural determinants of health, and the sustainability of behaviour change. In the final part, he shares advice for PhD students and

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18:13

Conference Review 6: International Long-Term Care...

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2025/12/02

In this episode, we have a casual chat about Prithvi’s experience attending and presenting at the International Long-Term Care Policy Network (ILPN) 2024 Conference in Bilbao. We talk about what the conference was like, from the city to the general vibe, and what it’s like to present research to a mixed audience. More broadly, we chat about navigating big conferences solo, tips for meeting people and starting conversations, and general observations about conference culture. Hosts: Prithviraj Basu

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57:08

Episode 32: Job van Exel and Informal Care

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2025/11/18

In this episode of EcoEchoes, we speak with Professor Job van Exel, a health economist, director of research at ESHPM, and the original founder of this podcast. We discuss the challenges in defining and measuring informal caregiving, especially for incorporating it into economic evaluations and then to further down the line inform policy. For example, we talk about the distinctions between objective and subjective burden, and the different assumptions and potential biases in different valuation

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47:51

Episode 31: Danae Arroyos-Calvera on how uncertainty...

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2025/11/04

This episode’s guest is Danae Arroyos-Calvera, Associate Professor in Behavioural and Experimental Economics at the University of Birmingham. She discusses her research on cooperation, moral wiggle room, and plausible deniability in public goods games. The conversation explores the challenge of translating lab findings to policy, the importance of publishing null results, and the balance between image, incentives, and fairness in human behaviour.In the final part, Danae shares advice for

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Episode 30: Yubraj Acharya on Reducing...

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2025/10/21

In this episode, Yubraj Acharya discusses his paper ‘Reducing Non-Prescription Antibiotics Use through Community Education in Low-Income Countries’. He sheds light on the growing issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and shares about the intervention he conducted in Nepal, aimed at reducing non-prescribed antibiotic use among parents of children.Guest: Yubraj Acharya, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Demography at Pennsylvania State University, The United States. Hosts:

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Episode 29: Judith Bom & Gaia Bagnasco on Ageing in...

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2025/10/07

In this episode, Judith Bom and Gaia Bagnasco discuss their latest paper mapping care pathways for people in their last 6 years before death with dementia in the Netherlands. You can find the paper here. First, we talk about why studying ageing and dementia matters and how the Dutch long-term care system works. We then move on to discuss what their latent class analysis reveals about three distinct care trajectories: the late formal care group, the mixed care group and the early nursing home group

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Episode 28: Anna Stirner on the use of Decision...

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2025/09/23

This episode’s guest is Anna Stirner, a PhD Candidate in Health Economics at the University of Cologne. She discusses her experimental study on physicians’ use of therapeutic decision support (DS) systems in pediatric antibiotic prescribing, examining how access, effort costs, and quality incentives shape uptake and care quality. The conversation explores the challenge of antibiotic overprescription, how younger versus more experienced physicians respond to DS, and policy implications for

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Episode 27: Vahid Moghani on childhood mental health...

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2025/07/15

Episode DescriptionThis episode’s guest is Vahid, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Erasmus School of Economics. His work is focused on the intersection between labor and health economics. In this episode, he presents his working paper on childhood mental health effects of early life exposure to paternal job loss. The discussion sheds light on a critical aspect of job loss and how this scenario can hit harder on families by emotional and psychological challenges. Guest: Vahid Moghani, Postdoctoral

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Episode 26: Hans van Kippersluis on why we skip workouts

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2025/07/01

This episode’s guest is Professor Hans van Kippersluis from Erasmus School of Economics. He discusses his working paper “Skipping your workout, again? Measuring and understanding time inconsistency in physical activity”, co-authored with Diarmaid Ó Ceallaigh and Kirsten Rohde. The paper studies time inconsistency in physical activity using survey data from the Dutch Lifelines cohort. They find that participants not only overestimate but also underestimate their future exercise. We talk about why

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Episode 25: Amal Ahmad on early mother’s marriage and...

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2025/06/17

This episode’s guest is Amal Ahmad, an Assistent Professor at the Development Economics group at Wageningen University. She presents her working paper on the effect of early mother's marriage on child growth in India. The authors explore this causal relationship using age at menarche as an instrumental variable. The conversation discusses the data and methods used, as well as policy implications and their political feasibility in the Indian context.Guest: Amal Ahmad, Assistent Professor,

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Episode 24: Michael Haylock and Nudging Donors:...

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2025/06/03

This episode's guest is Michael Haylock, a health economist now working in consulting after a postdoc at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He presents his paper “Improving the availability of stem cell donors, a letter and email intervention” which looks at the effects of a behavioural intervention to reduce attrition among registered donors. We talk about the importance and logistics of stem cell donation, how commitment nudges can help identify more reliable donors, and the challenges of working

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Episode 23: Benjamin Chibuye on the role of physician...

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2025/05/13

This episode’s guest is Benjamin Chibuye, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Danish Centre for Health Economics (DaCHE) in Department of Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark. He presents his working paper on physician altruism and opioid prescribing, focusing on how Danish general practitioners respond to national guidelines in light of their professional motivations. The conversation explores the complexities of health provider behaviour, the role of public service motivation, and the

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Conference Review 5: Economic Science Association...

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2025/04/29

This one is for the experimental economists. Fanny shares her experience attending the Economic Science Association’s European Meeting in Helsinki in September 2024. This was Fanny's first experience attending a non-health conference. Listen to find out why the conference is worth attending if you run experiments. The next European meeting will take place in Brno, Czech Republic from Wednesday 3 September until Saturday 6 September 2025. Find out more about the conference by clicking this link

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