Research

Peer-reviewed publications: 

Da Costa, S., O'Donnell, O., Van Gestel, R. 2024. Distributionally Sensitive Measurement and Valuation of Population Health. Journal of Health Economics. 

Shaikh, M., Ota, E., Van Gestel, R. 2023. Childhood immunization and competing mortality risks in Kenya: A longitudinal analysis for multiparous mothers.  Journal of Pediatrics.

Van Gestel, R., Broekman, N., Müller, T. 2023. Surgeon Supply and Healthcare Quality: Are Revision Rates for Hip and Knee Replacements Lower in Hospitals That Employ More Surgeons? Health Economics. 

Van Gestel, R., Goedemé, T., Janssens, J., Lefevere, E., Lemkens, R. 2022. Improving take-up by reaching out to potential beneficiaries. Insights from a large-scale field experiment in Belgium. Journal of Social Policy. doi:10.1017/S004727942100088X 

Dyson, H., Van Gestel, R., Van Doorslaer, E. 2021. The relative importance and stability of disease burden causes over time: Summarising trends for 290 causes of disease burden and 28 years. Population Health Metrics 19:30.

Roos, A-F., O'Donnell, O., Schut, E., Van Doorslaer, E., Van Gestel, R., Varkevisser, M. 2020. Does Price Deregulation in a Competitive Hospital Market Damage Quality? Journal of Health Economics 72: 102328.

Van Gestel, R.,Müller, T., Bosmans J. 2018. Learning From Failure in Interventional Care: dynamic panel evidence of a physician shock effect. Health Economics 27(9):1340-1353.

Van Gestel, R., Müller, T., Bosmans, J. 2017. Does My High Blood Pressure Improve Your Survival? Overall and Subgroup Learning in Health. Health Economics 26(09):1094-1109.

        (This paper was awarded the iHEA student prize in 2017)

Van Gestel, R., De Graeve, D., Vrints, C., Rodrigus, I., Bosmans, J. 2013. Hospitalization costs of TAVI in one Belgian university hospital. Acta Cardiologica 68:263-270.

Other contributions:

Van Gestel, R., Goedemé, T., De Graeve, D., Avalosse, H. 2019. De impact van de proactieve flux en de verhoogde tegemoetkoming op gezondheidszorguitgaven. CM-Informatie 277, 37-43.

De Graeve, D., Xu, K., Van Gestel, R. 2017. Equity in Health Financing. In: Quah,S.R. and Cockerham, W.C. (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2nd edition. vol. 2, pp. 569–576. Oxford: Academic Press.

Goedemé, T., Van Gestel, R., Janssens, J., Lefevere, E., Lemkens, R., De Spiegeleer, T. 2017. De proactieve flux: een succesvolle manier om de opname van de verhoogde tegemoetkoming te verbeteren. CM-Informatie 270, 19–25.

Work in progress:

Benchmarking clinical practice on treatment gain inequality-probability bounds (joint with Daniel Avdic and Owen O'Donnell, conditionally accepted in `Contributions to Economic Analysis: Recent developments in health econometrics')

Social Comparison Between Physicians: a field experiment (joint with Tobias Müller and Michael Gerfin, submitted)

Untruthfulness in self-reported medication adherence influences treatment preferences (joint with Carina Oedingen, Samare Huls, Jorien Veldwijk and Esther de Bekker-Grob, submitted)

Female Leadership and child outcomes (joint with Mujaheed Shaikh)

Spillover of health programs on vaccination: A quasi-experimental analysis of the Zinc and Oral Rehydration Salts Program in India (with Flore Vermijs, Carlos Riumallo-Herl and Mujaheed Shaikh)

Risk-Based Decision Making (joint with Matthew Robson, Tom Van Ourti and Owen O’Donnell)

Health Poverty in the US (joint with Shaun Da Costa)

Subsidized Health Insurance and Healthcare Utilization: new evidence from a large-scale field experiment (joint with Tim Goedemé, Diana De Graeve, Hervé Avalosse and Bram Peters)