Research

Publications: 

COVID-19 and domiciliary care utilisation: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (with Anastasia Arabadzhyan, Panagiotis Kasteridis, Anne Mason, Nigel Rice) The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, March 2025

The long-run effect of COVID-19 on hospital emergency department attendances:evidence from statistical analysis of hospital data from England (with Rita Santos, Peter Sivey) Health Policy, December 2024

Variation in attendance at emergency departments in England across local areas: A system under unequal pressure (with Martin Chalkley; Rita Santos; Luigi Siciliani)  Health Policy, December 2024

Assortative mating, marital stability and the role of business cycles in the United States from 1968 to 2011  Journal of Applied Economics, March 2024

Does commuting mode choice impact health? (with Luke Munford, Nigel Rice and Jennifer Roberts)   Health Economics, February 2021.

The disutility of commuting? The effect of gender and local labour markets (with Luke Munford, Nigel Rice and Jennifer Roberts)  Regional Science and Urban Economics, July 2019.

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Policy Briefings:

The implications of reducing activity-based payments for emergency care, Centre for Health Economics Policy Forums, University of York, September 2023 (with Martin Chalkley ; Hugh Gravelle; Rita Santos; Luigi Siciliani)

Working papers:

Inequality in healthcare and patient-initiated cancellations during COVID-19 (with Anastasia Arabadzhyan, Panos Kasteridis, Anne Mason, Nigel Rice) (Under Review)

The role of payment reform in influencing Accident and Emergency Department attendances: variation across Clinical Commissioning Groups. (with Martin Chalkley, Hugh Gravelle, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani). CHE Research Paper, no.191 

The potential for payment reform to influence emergency admissions: the case of blended payment in the English NHS. (with Martin Chalkley, Hugh Gravelle, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani) CHE Research Paper, no.188

Payment reform, purchaser and provider decisions and the performance of emergency healthcare systems: The case of blended payment in the English NHS (with Martin Chalkley, Hugh Gravelle, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani) CHE Research Paper, no.187 

The impact of mental health status on employment, income, our of pocket payments for healthcare and household spending patterns: evidence from the MIND-ECON trial in South Africa (with  Susan Cleary, Rowena Jacobs, Noemi Kreif, Samuel Lordemus, Vimbayi Mafunda, Bronwyn Myers,  Marc Suhrcke).  (Under Review) 

Working Drafts:

Caesarean section birth deliveries and child cognitive, non-cognitive and health outcomes (with Nigel Rice and Anouk Veltman). 

Exploring the role of consent in marriage on child health in India (with Adriana Castelli and Fanyi Su). 

Effect of arranged marriages on child development: Evidence from India.  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4654730

Parental education and Child development: long and short term outcomes. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3676107/v1  

Ongoing Projects:

Estimating the cost of cancer care in England: Evidence from the Galleri Test [NIHR Policy research unit in economic methods of evaluation in health and social care interventions (EEPRU)]

Crisis Care and Mental Health Act [NIHR Policy research unit in mental health (MHPRU), collaboration between CHE, York and Division of Psychiatry, UCL]

Completed Projects:

Economics of Social and Health Care (ESHCRU II): The effect of Covid-19 on healthcare use- understanding the level and variation in displaced demand. 

Economics of Social and Health Care (ESHCRU II): The long run effects of Covid-19 risk on A&E demand across different patient groups. 

Economics of Social and Health Care (ESHCRU II): Analysis of purchaser-provider incentives for emergency services in England- Fixed price and blended payment contracts: Theory and evidence of the consequences for emergency care in the NHS. [NIHR Policy Research Unit in the Economics of Health Systems and Interface with Social Care, collaboration between CHE, York and CPEC, LSE]

MIND-ECON: The longer term, average and distributional effects of mental health interventions and the causal effect of mental illness on economic outcomes in South Africa. [Medical Research Council, collaboration between CHE, York and University of Cape Town, S.A] 

• Co-I on the UKRI GCRF and Newton consolidation/ ODA funding for MIND-ECON South Africa project extension: Principal Investigator- Prof. Rowena Jacobs (CHE) and Prof. Susan Cleary (University of Cape Town, SA). £32,515 to York.

Commuting and well-being in the United Kingdom (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council)

Presentations: 

University of York/ Department for Health and Social Care (ESHCRU II oversight meeting) on ‘Displaced Demand project- UKHLS analysis’. June 2023

Health Econometrics and Data Group, University of York. April 2023

NIHR Policy Research Unit in the Economics of Health Systems and the Interface with Social Care- ESHCRU II (University of York/ Department of Health and Social Care).  2022

ESHCRU II, York team meeting.  May, 2022, 

ESHCRU II, Work stream Advisory Group meeting (University of York/ Department of Health and Social Care). February, 2021, 

Centro de Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México, A.C. December 2020

Health Econometrics and Data Group, University of York. June 2019

Health Economists' Study Group, Winter meeting York. January 2019

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