Research

Work in progress

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)

Firm Quality and Health Maintenance (with Elek P)

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)

Accident-induced absence from work and wage growth (with Bisztray, M, da Fonseca, J G and Molnár, T L)

  Media coverage: Telex (Defacto)

The Labor Market Effects of Disability Benefit Loss (with Hornok, C, Krekó, J, Prinz, D and Scharle, Á)

Media coverage: Portfolio

Financial subsidies and the shortage of primary care physicians (with Imre, B)

Media coverage: Portfolio

Motherhood timing and the child penalty: bounding the returns to delay (with Dieterle, S and Steinhauer, A)

Refereed journal articles


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

Book chapters and other publications

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

Publications in Hungarian

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