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I am an applied microeconomist working in health and labor economics, with a complementary research line in econometrics. My applied work uses Dutch administrative and experimental data to study how workplaces, labor-market shocks, and healthcare institutions shape health and health disparities, and how information and beliefs shape the demand for care. My econometric work is motivated by questions of identification and measurement that arise in my applied research. It examines how commonly used empirical designs and elicited measures map onto the economic objects of interest.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Erasmus School of Economics and the Tinbergen Institute.
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The Health Costs of Firms
How much do firms differ in what otherwise similar workers cost the healthcare system? Using linked Dutch employer–employee data and worker moves across firms, I find that moving the same worker to a firm one standard deviation higher in the firm-effect distribution raises expected annual healthcare expenditure by 17.8%, a gap comparable to income and education gradients, mostly within industries, reflected in pain medication, disability, and mortality, and borne by the collectively financed system rather than by the firm.
Companion paper When Is the Mover-Design Event Study Coefficient a Place-Effect Share?