About the conference

The Essen Health Conference is a forum where researchers in health economics present work on the nexus between health and socioeconomic outcomes. We invite paper submissions on any topic at the intersection between health and labour or education economics.

Examples of suitable topics

• Early life health, education, and productivity
• Retirement and health capacity to work at older ages
• Health insurance and the labour market
• Mental health and employability
• Determinants and effects of absenteeism and presenteeism
• The effects of unemployment and downturns on health
• Structural modeling of labour market decisions and health
• Prescription drug use, mental helth, education and labour market outcomes
• The effect of physical and mental health on educational attainment

Keynote Speakers

• Andrea Ichino, University of Bologna

• Costas Meghir, Yale University

• Katrine V Løken, Norwegian School of Economics

• Michèle Tertilt, University of Mannheim

Scientific Committee

• Pietro Biroli, University of Zürich
• Sarah Cattan, Institue for Fiscal Studies
• Olivier Deschenes, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Martin Karlsson, University of Duisburg-Essen
• Sonya Krutikova, Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Jesse Matheson, University of Leicester
• Teresa Molina, University of Hawaii
• Therese Nilsson, Lund University
• Martin Salm, Tilburg University
• Hans Sievertsen, University of Bristol
• Nicolas Ziebarth, Cornell University

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