Does Earlier Return to Work Help Mothers' Career? -- Evidence via the Substitution Effect of Paid Parental Leave (with Márk, L, Molnár, T L and Pálvölgyi, Zs)
Tax Evasion and the Contribution-Benefit Link: The Case of Maternity Benefits (with Elek P, Prinz D, Sándor L), R&R at AEJ: Policy
Health Shocks, Social Insurance and Firms (with Boza I, Gyetvai A, Prinz D)
Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes (with Branyiczki, R, Lindner, A, Márk, L and Prinz, D)
Labor Market Tightness, Wage Inequality and Workplace Amenities (with da Fonseca, J G, Lindner, A, and Molnár, T L)
The Labor Market Effects of Disability Benefit Loss (with Hornok, C, Krekó, J, Prinz, D and Scharle, Á)
Media coverage: Portfolio
Motherhood timing and the child penalty: bounding the returns to delay (with Dieterle, S and Steinhauer, A)
A Bíró, P Elek (2025) Firm Quality and Health Maintenance, Journal of Health Economics
Accident-induced absence from work and wage growth (with Bisztray, M, da Fonseca, J G and Molnár, T L), accepted at Journal of Labor Economics
Media coverage: Telex (Defacto)
Lengyel, B., Tóth, G., Christakis, N. A., & Bíró, A. (2024). "Antidepressant use and spatial social capital", Science Advances, 10(49), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr030
A Bíró, D Prinz, L Sándor (2022) "The minimum wage, informal pay and tax enforcement", Journal of Public Economics, 215, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104728
Media coverage: Telex (Defacto)
A Bíró, R Branyiczki, P Elek (2022) "The Effect of Involuntary Retirement on Healthcare Use" Health Economics, 31(6): 1012-1032. DOI: 10.1002/hec.4493
P Elek, A Bíró, P Fadgyas-Freyler (2021) "Income gradient of pharmaceutical panic buying at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic" Health Economics, 30(9): 2312-2320. DOI: 10.1002/hec.4378
Media coverage: Portfolio
A Bíró, R Branyiczki, P Elek (2021) "Time patterns of precautionary health behaviours during an easing phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe" European Journal of Ageing, DOI: 10.1007/s10433-021-00636-4
Media coverage: Portfolio
A Bíró (2021) "The impact of the Hungarian unhealthy food tax on sugary food producers and household expenditures." Agricultural Economics, 52(4): 545-559. DOI: 10.1111/agec.12634
A Bíró, Á Szabó-Morvai (2021) "Mass media coverage and vaccination uptake: evidence from the demand for meningococcal vaccinations in Hungary." European Journal of Health Economics, 22: 887-903. DOI: 10.1007/s10198-021-01296-y
Media coverage: Portfolio
A Bíró, T Hajdu, G Kertesi & D Prinz (2021) "Life expectancy inequalities in Hungary over 25 years: The role of avoidable deaths." Population Studies, 75(3): 443-455. DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2021.1877332
Media coverage: Index, Qubit, Telex (Defacto)
P Elek, A Bíró (2021) “Regional differences in diabetes across Europe – regression and causal forest analyses”, Economics & Human Biology, 40. DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100948
Y Alem, H Behrendt, M Belot, A Bíró (2021) "Mind training, stress and behaviour—A randomised experiment." PLoS ONE 16(11): e0258172. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258172
Media coverage: Portfolio
A Bíró, P Elek (2020) "Job loss, disability insurance and health expenditure", Labour Economics, 65. DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101856
A Bíró, R Branyiczki (2020) “Transition shocks during adulthood and health a few decades later in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe.” BMC Public Health, 20, 698. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-08839-7
A Bíró, P Elek (2020) “Caesarean delivery and the use of antidepressants”, European Journal of Public Health, 30(4): 727-733. DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa047
A Bíró, D Prinz (2020) "Healthcare Spending Inequality: Evidence from Hungarian Administrative Data", Health Policy, 124(3): 282-290. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.01.006
Media coverage: Defacto, Qubit
A Bíró, P Elek (2019) "The effect of primary care availability on antibiotic consumption in Hungary: a population based panel study using unfilled general practices", BMJ Open 2019; 9:e028233. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028233
Media coverage: Qubit
A Bíró A (2019) “Reduced user fees for antibiotics under age 5 in Hungary: Effect on antibiotic use and imbalances in the implementation.” PLoS ONE, 14(6): e0219085. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219085
P Baji, A Bíró (2018) "Adaptation or recovery after health shocks? Evidence using subjective and objective health measures", Health Economics, 27(5): 850-864. DOI: 10.1002/hec.3644
A Bíró, P Elek (2018) "How does retirement affect health care expenditures? Evidence from a change in the retirement age", Health Economics, 27(5): 803-818. DOI: 10.1002/hec.3639
A Bíró (2017) "Health of central and eastern European migrants in Germany: healthy migrant effects and good health maintained?" International J of Migration Health and Social Care, 14(1): 68-81. DOI: 10.1108/IJMHSC-03-2017-0008
A Bíró (2017) "Effect of ageing on the ownership of durable goods", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 64(5): 501-529. DOI: 10.1111/sjpe.12131
V Brodszky, A Bíró, Z Szekanecz, B Soós, P Baji, F Rencz, L Tóthfalusi, L Gulácsi, M Péntek (2017) “Determinants of biological drug survival in rheumatoid arthritis: evidence from a Hungarian rheumatology center over 8 years of retrospective data”, ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2017(9): 139-147. DOI: 10.2147/CEOR.S124381
A Bíró (2016) “Outpatient visits after retirement in Europe and the US", International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 16(4): 363-385. DOI: 10.1007/s10754-016-9191-7
A Bíró, M Hellowell (2016) “Public-private sector interactions and the demand for supplementary health insurance in the United Kingdom”, Health Policy, 120(7): 840-847. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.05.002
A Bíró (2016): “Differences between subjective and predicted survival probabilities and their relation topreventive care use”, B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. 16(2): 807-835. DOI: 10.1515/bejeap-2015-0154
A Bíró (2015): “Did the junk food tax make the Hungarians eat healthier?” Food Policy 54: 107-115. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.05.003
A. Bíró (2013): "Discount rates and the education gradient in mammography in the UK", Health Economics, 22(9): 1021-1036. DOI: 10.1002/hec.2963
A. Bíró (2013): "Subjective mortality hazard shocks and the adjustment of consumption expenditures", Journal of Population Economics, 26(4): 1379-1408. DOI: 10.1007/s00148-012-0461-5
A. Bíró (2014): "Supplementary private health insurance and health care utilization of people aged 50+", Empirical Economics, 46(2): 501-524. DOI: 10.1007/s00181-013-0689-2
A. Bíró (2013): "Adverse effects of widowhood in Europe", Advances in Life Course Research, 18(1): 68-82. DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2012.10.005
A. Bíró (2013): "Copayments, gatekeeping, and the utilization of outpatient public and private care at age 50 and above in Europe", Health Policy, 111(1): 24-33. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.03.009
A. Bíró (2013): "Determinants of H1N1 vaccination uptake in England", Preventive Medicine, 57(2): 140-142. DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.04.017
A. Bíró, P. Elek, J. Vincze (2008): "Model-based sensitivity analysis of the Hungarian economy to macroeconomic shocks and uncertainties", Acta Oeconomica, Vol. 58, Nr 4
Bíró, A., Elek, P., Kungl, N. (2024) Multi-dimensional Panels in Health Economics with an Application on Antibiotic Consumption. In: The Econometrics of Multi-dimensional Panels. (ed. Mátyás L.)
Bíró, A., Kollányi, Zs., Romaniuk, P., Smolić, Š., Srakar, A., & Dominko, M. (2022) Health and Social Security. In: Emerging European Economies After the Pandemic. (ed. Mátyás L.)
Bíró, A., Branyiczki, R., Kollányi, Zs. (2020). Egészségi állapot és munkapiaci státus összefüggései Magyarországon és Európában. In: Munkaerőpiaci Tükör 2019 (ed. Elek P., Fazekas K., Hajdu T.), p. 80-90. KRTK KTI.
Media coverage: Index
A Bíró and R Branyiczki (2019) Health gap in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe: A life-course perspective. in: Börsch-Supan, Axel; Bristle, Johanna; Andersen-Ranberg, Karen; Brugiavini, Agar; Jusot, Florence; Litwin, Howard; Weber, Guglielmo (eds.) (2019): Health and socio-economic status over the life course. First results from SHARE Waves 6 and 7. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston.
Bíró, A., Branyiczki, R., Elek, P. (2019): Health and labour market participation among women. In: The Hungarian Labour Market 2018 (ed. Fazekas K., Szabó-Morvai Á.), p. 141-150. Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The same in Hungarian: Bíró, A., Branyiczki, R., Elek, P. (2018): Egészség és munkapiaci aktivitás a nők körében. In: Munkaerőpiaci Tükör 2018 (ed. Fazekas K., Szabó-Morvai Á.), p. 142-151. MTA KRTK KTI.
E Mot, A Bíró (2012): “Performance of long-term care systems in Europe”, ENEPRI Policy Brief No. 13
A Bíró (2012), “Overall evaluation of performance”, in Mot, Faber, Geerts and Willemé (eds), Performance of Long-Term Care Systems in Europe, ENEPRI Research Report No. 117
Bárdits, A., Bíró, A., Elek, P., & Krekó, J. (2025). "Munkapiaci aktivitás a nyugdíjkorhatáron túl" (Labor market activity beyond the retirement age) Közgazdasági Szemle, 72(1), 1-19.
Bíró, A., & Branyiczki, R. (2022). "Várakozások és viselkedések a koronavírus-járvány idején" (Expectations and behaviors during the coronavirus pandemic) Közgazdasági Szemle, 69(11), 1324-1344.
J. Gács, A. Bíró (2013): “A munkaerő-piaci előrejelzések nemzetközi gyakorlata - áttekintés a kvantitatív módszerekről és felhasználásukról” (International experience in forecasting labour markets – overview of quantitative methods and their applications), Közgazdasági Szemle, p. 134-163
A. Bíró, J. Vincze (2009): A gazdaság fehérítése - büntetés és ösztönzés. Költségek és hasznok egy modellszámítás tükrében. (Whitening the economy: sticks and carrots - Quantification of costs and benefits) In: Rejtett Gazdaság, ed.: Semjén András, Tóth István János, MTA-KTI
P. Bakos, A. Bíró, P. Elek, Á. Scharle (2008): "Hatékonyság és arbitrázslehetőségek a magyar adórendszerben" (The efficiency of the Hungarian tax system), Kormányzás, 1
A. Bíró, P. Elek, J. Vincze (2007): "A magyar gazdaság külső sokkokra való érzékenysége és korrekciós mechanizmusai" (Sensitivity of the Hungarian economy to international shocks, and adjustment mechanisms), Külgazdaság, 5-6, p. 4-20
A. Bíró, P. Elek, J. Vincze (2007): "Szimulációk és érzékenységvizsgálatok a magyar gazdaság egy középméretű makromodelljével" (Simulations and sensitivity analyses with a medium-sized macro model of the Hungarian economy), Közgazdasági Szemle, p. 774-799