Health Economics

The Health Economics research group explores the intricacies of individual decision-making processes with the ultimate goal of improving health outcomes.

Representative Publications

Giuntella, Osea, Johannes Konig and Luca Stella. 2025. "Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers." Scientific Reports, 15 (1) : 20087.

Giuntella, Osea, Andrea Kiss, and Stephanie W. Wang. 2024. "Sleep Norms." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 114: 672-677.

Giuntella, Osea, Sally McManus, Redzo Mujcic, Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee, and Ahmed Tohamy. 2023. "The midlife crisis." Economica, 90 (357): 65-110.

Avery, Mallory, Osea Giuntella, and Peiran Jiao. 2022. "Why don't we sleep enough? A field experiment among college students." Review of Economics and Statistics, 107 (1): 1-45.

Giuntella, Osea, Kelly Hyde, Silvia Saccardo, and Sally Sadoff. 2021. "Lifestyle and mental health disruptions during COVID-19." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (9): e2016632118.

Barbieri, Paolo Nicola, Osea Giuntella, Silvia Saccardo, and Sally Sadoff. 2021. "Lifestyle and mental health 1 year into COVID-19." Scientific Reports, 11 (1): 23349.

Giuntella, Osea, Jakub Lonsky, Fabrizio Mazzonna, and Luca Stella. 2021. "Immigration policy and immigrants’ sleep. Evidence from DACA." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 182: 1-12.

Roth, Alvin E. and Stephanie W. Wang. 2020. "Popular repugnance contrasts with legal bans on controversial markets." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (33): 19792–19798.

Himes, Katherine P., Heidi Donovan, Stephanie W. Wang, Carrie Weaver, Jillian R. Grove, and Francesca L. Facco. 2017. "Healthy Beyond Pregnancy, a Web-Based Intervention to Improve Adherence to Postpartum Care: Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial." JMIR Human Factors, 4 (4): e7964.

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