BHEPPE (Bologna Health Economics and Public Policy Evaluation) is the research group on health economics, risky behavior, and health-related policies of the University of Bologna, Italy.
Participation to the activities is open and requires no particular academic affiliation. Contact healtheconomicsbologna@live.unibo.it for information and details.
Libertad Gonzalez (U. Pompeu Fabra), 22/9/2025.
Hans Van Kippersluis (Eramus U. ), 20/11/2025
Maddelena Totarelli (U. Amsterdam) 29/05/2025. Prison Rehabilitation Programs, Recidivism, and Labor Market Outcomes
Elisabetta De Cao (U. Bologna), 26/05/2025. High temperatures and harsh parenting
Chiara Costi (U. Luxembourg), 12/05/2025. Return-to-Office Mandates, Health and Well-being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Gonçalo Lima (U. Bologna), 14/4/2025. Physician Overtime Restrictions and Patients’ Health: Evidence from Denmark
Michael Darden (Johns Hopkins U.), 10/3/2025. Inequality and Medical Innovation: Evidence from Direct-Acting Antivirals
Luca Facchinello (U.Torino), 24/02/2025. PFAS Exposure and Cognitive Development: Evidence from an Italian Environmental Incident
Pietro Biroli (U. Bologna), 10/02/2025. Psychological Interventions Provide Resilience to Negative Shocks
3rd HERB (3rd Italian workshop on the Health Economics of Risky Behavior), 23-24/1/2025, Bologna
Felipe A. Lozano-Rojas (University of Georgia), 13/1/2025. The War on Drugs and the Opioid Epidemic: The Effect of a Large Prescription Opioid Diversion Event on Opioid Mortality in The U.S.
Nicolau Bassols (U. Bologna), 9/12/2024. Examining the Health Legacy of the NHS: Infant Mortality, Genetic Endowment, and Adult Health
Moslem Rashidi (U. Bologna), 25/11/2024. Emergency Room or Early Detection? The Critical Role of Mammography in Women's Health
Marie-Anne Boujaoude (U. of Melbourne), 21/11/2024. Aversion to income, ethnic, and geographic related health inequality: Evidence from Australia
Filippo Passerini (U. Milan), 11/11/2024. Negative emotions and the sex market: Evidence from market transactions and football matches
Davide Dragone (U. Bologna), 28/10/2024. Addictive consumption, imperfect substitutes and self-control: A model and an application to slot machines
Elena Pisanelli (U. Bologna), 14/10/2024. Measuring domestic violence: Individual attitudes and time use within the household
Caterina Muratori (U. Barcelona), 10/10/2024. The effect of e-cigarette taxes on substance use
John Cawley (Cornell U.), 1/10/2024. The effects of taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages
Pietro Biroli (U. Bologna), 23/9/2024. Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not: Online role model mentoring and students' aspirations
Aarushi Dhingra (U. Bologna), 9/9/2024. The impact of individuals' preventive behaviours on health and healthcare Utilisation
Scott Cunningham (Baylor. U.), 17/6/2024. Can ChatGPT predict the future when it tells stories set in the future about the past?
Mona Aghdaee (Australian Institute of Health Innovation). The application of machine learning in healthcare outcome research
John Mullahy (U. Wisconsin), 2/7/2024. Differential covariate classification and evidence-based decision making
Sahar Paktinat (U. Bologna), 13/6/2024. The role of human capital in a highly regulated healthcare context: The case of hip fracture surgery
Sonia Bhalotra (U. Warwick), 23/5/2024. Firm responses to legislation on handling workplace sexual harassment
David Frisvold (U. Iowa), 22/5/2024. The Effect of Soda Taxes: Testing for Heterogeneity by Health Conditions
Daniela Iorio (U. Bologna), 24/4/2024. A Quantitative Theory of the HIV Epidemic: Education, Risky Sex and Asymmetric Learning
Marina Della Giusta (U. Torino), 22/3/2024. Combatting Unconscious Bias in Education
Nicolas Ziebarth (ZEW - U. Mannheim), 14/3/2024. The Anatomy of U.S. Sick Leave Schemes: Evidence from Public School Teachers
Davide Dragone (U. Bologna), 15/2/2024. Harm Reduction: When Does It Improve Health, and When Does it Backfire? (with J. Cawley)
2nd HERB (Second Italian workshop on Health Economics and Risky Behavior), 25-26/1/2024, Bologna
Luca Maini (Harvard Medical School), 19/12/2023. Mergers that Matter: The Impact of M&A Activity in Prescription Drug Markets
PhD/Supervisor Conference 2023 - EuHEA - 7-8/9/2023, U. Bologna.
Jenny Williams (U. Melbourne), 08/06/2023. Valuing Access to Treatment: Substance use disorders, health-care utilisation, employment and crime
Hitoshi Shigeoka (Simon Fraser U.), 30/5/2023. Invisible Killer: Seasonal Allergy and Accidents
Elisabetta De Cao (U. Bologna), 22/05/2023. Gene-Environment Effects on Female Fertility (with Nicola Barban (Bologna) and Marco Francesconi (Essex))
Denni Tommasi, (U. Bologna), 12/04/2023. McEmpirics app presentation
Stephane Mechoulan (Dalhousie University). Sibling gender composition, academic achievements, and career aspirations (with Jasmin Kantarevic)
1st HERB (First Italian workshop on Health Economics and Risky Behavior), 26-27/1/2023, Bologna
HERB 1 - program
Pietro Biroli (U. Bologna), 26/10/2022. Parental socio-economic status and offspring genetic endowments
Paolo Buonanno (U. Bergamo), 21/4/2020. News from the COVID-19 epicenter, with S. Galletta, M. Puca
Mirco Tonin (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), 21/4/2020. Compliance with COVID-19 social-distancing measures in Italy: The role of expectations and duration, with G. Briscese, N. Lacetera, M. Macis
Online Bheppe meetings (COVID-19 working group)
Brainstorming II: 9/4/2020; Brainstorming I: 25/3/2020; Kick-off: 20/3/2020
10th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, 28-29/6/2019, Bologna (Italy)
Daniela Iorio, 28/5/2019. Disparities in the Battle against Infertility: The Education Gradient in the Success Rates of IVF Technology in Denmark (1995-2009)
Nektaria Glynia, 21/2/2019. Who adopts? Evidence from Italian administrative data
Giorgio Monti, 21/2/2019. Understanding the Greenshirting: Preference, Beliefs and Background of Early Entrants' Parents in Southern Italy
Chiara Oldani, 15/1/2019. The economics of child adoption
Matteo Lippi Bruni, 12/12/2018. Migrants' access to welfare services: Evidence from emergency care managerial incentives in public hospitals: the case of waiting times for hip fracture
Sara Capacci, 6/11/2018. (Health) policy-relevant results from empirical demand analysis. Quasi-experimental methods for health policy evaluation
Katerina Koka, 3/10/2018. The impact of publicly supplied health insurance on aggregate income inequality. Public health care, changing demographics, and voters' choice over capital and labor income taxes
Martin Foster, 20/6/2018. The economic dynamics of sequential clinical trial design. Strategic interaction in pharmaceutical price regulation and innovation
Anastasia Arabadzhyan, 29/5/2018. Problem drinking and depression. State dependence, unobserved heterogeneity, and dynamic cross-effects
Mario Mazzocchi, 23/4/2018. Prices, consumer demand, and nutrition outcomes: How effective are fiscal policies?
Francesca Barigozzi, 21/2/2018. Long-term care and gender issues. Providers’ competition for motivated health professionals
Davide Dragone, 22/1/2018. Rational addiction: theory, empirical testing, recent advancements. Price and income effects in health-related models