BHEPPE (Bologna Health Economics and Public Policy Evaluation) is the University of Bologna's research group in health economics, with a particular focus on risky behaviors and the evaluation of health-related public policies.
BHEPPE promotes research and academic exchange through the annual Health Economics of Risky Behaviors (HERB) Workshop and the Health Economics Seminar Series hosted by the Department of Economics.
All interested participants are welcome to attend BHEPPE activities. No specific academic affiliation is required. For information and updates, please contact healtheconomicsbologna@live.unibo.it.
Benoit Carré (Southern Denmark U.), 12/10/2026. Finding the mix: The evolution of publicly paid private hospital care in Denmark.
Marcus Enro-Heising (Aarhus U. ), 26/10/2026.
Sofie Cairo (Copenhagen Business School), 09/11/2026. Parenthood and the Academic Career Ladder.
Alexander Ahammer (U. Linz), 19/11/2026.
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas (City University of New York), 23/11/2026.
5th HERB (5th Italian workshop on the Health Economics of Risky Behavior), 21-22/1/2027, Bologna. call for papers
Thomas Siedler (U. Potsdam) 21/09/2026. Does Content Format Matter for Student Learning? Evidence from 60+ Randomized Experiments.
Ludovigo Genovese (Columbia U.), 22/06/2026. College Majors and Cooperative Behavior: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Sweden’s Centralized College Admission System.
Ricardo Ciacci (U. Pontificia Comillas), 15/06/2026. Emotions and the Sex Market: Evidence from Market Transactions and Football Matches.
Mathew Oancea (U. Queensland) 8/06/2026. Shooting for the Stars (and your Foot): Aspiration-Capacity Mismatch and Adolescent Outcomes.
Maria De Paola (U. of Calabria), 16/05/2026. When Mothers Out-Earn Fathers: Effects on Fathers’ Decisions to Take Paternity and Parental Leave.
Elisa Baldazzi (U. Bologna), 11/05/2026 . The Impact of Scouting on School Absences and Crime Rate: Evidence from England.
Fiorella Parra-Mujica (Erasmus U.), 27/04/2026. Rising Temperatures and Domestic Violence in Peru: Evidence and Mechanisms.
Emmi Wilen (U. Oulu), 30/03/2026 - Two studies on genetics and labour market outcomes.
Sahar Paktinat (U. Bologna), 16/2/2026. Hospital Volume and Knee Replacement Outcomes: Implications for Workforce Participation.
4th HERB (4th Italian workshop on the Health Economics of Risky Behavior), 22-23/1/2026, Bologna. Herb 4 - 2026 - Website
Tomeu Lopez-Nieto (U. Bologna), 1/12/2025. The Impact of Educational Policies on Assortative Mating.
Hans Van Kippersluis (Eramus U. ), 20/11/2025. Dynamics in Employment and Income Before and After Transgender Transitioning: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data.
Cipiran Domnisoru (Alto U.), 6/10/2025. The Long-Run Effects of Aid to Dependent Children.
Libertad Gonzalez (U. Pompeu Fabra), 22/9/2025. Born Too Soon? The Educational Costs of Early Elective Deliveries.
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. HERB 3 - program
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. HERB 2 - program
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. EuHEA PhD 2023 - program
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.
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.
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.
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). Program
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.