Publications

Books and book chapters

Publications in Dutch

Peer-Reviewed

Alders, P., Wouterse, B., & Schut, F. (2025). Trend in length-of-stay in nursing homes: evidence from the Netherlands. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing. In press.
Panturu, A., Wouterse, B, & Hayen, A. (2025). Understanding the drivers and effects of treatment variation across hospitals: A case study on breast cancer. American Journal of Health Economics, in press.
Bagnasco, G., Bom, J., & Wouterse, B. (2025). Late-Life Dementia Care: Identifying Distinct Care Patterns in the Last Years of Life. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 26(8).
Wouterse, B., Vasco Santos, J., & Hiligsmann, M. (2025). Future directions for the economics of prevention. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, 25(6), 841–844.
Rotteveel, A., Knies, S., de Wit, A., Polder, J., & Wouterse, B. (2025). Valuing prevention: lessons and recommendations from a Dutch expert committee. Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research, 25(6), 849–854.
Milkovska, E., Issa, J., Wouterse, B., & Van Baal, P. (2025). Quantifying the health burden of COVID-19 using individual estimates of years of life lost based on population-wide administrative level data. Epidemiology, 36(4):520-530.
Bagnasco, G., Bakx, P., Licher, S., Van Exel, J., & Wouterse, B. (2025). Earnings losses in young-onset dementia: population-based study with admin data. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 21:e14588.
MacNeil Vroomen, J., Wammes J., Wouterse, B., Smalbrugge, M., & Murphy, T. (2025). Utilisation of nursing home care before and after the 2015 Dutch national reform: an interrupted time series analysis. Age and Ageing, 54(2), afaf018.
Wammes, J. D., Vullings, I., Kringos, D. S., Wouterse, B., Daams, J. G., Langendam, M., & Vroomen, J. L. M. (2024). Performance Indicators for the Assessment of Aging-In-Place Reform Policies: A Scoping Review and Evidence Map. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 105249.
Bär, M., Bom, J. A., Bakx, P. L., Hertogh, C. M., & Wouterse, B. (2024). Variation in Excess Mortality Across Nursing Homes in the Netherlands During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 105116.
Issa, J., Wouterse, B., Milkovska, E., & van Baal, P. (2024). Quantifying Income Inequality in Years of Life Lost to COVID-19: A Prediction Model Approach Using Dutch Administrative Data. International Journal of Epidemiology, dyad159.
Wammes, J., Bakx, P., Wouterse, B., Buurman, B., Murphy, T, & MacNeil Vroomen, J. (2023). Acute hospital use in older adults following the 2015 Dutch reform of long-term care: an interrupted time series analysis. The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 4(6), e257-e264.
Teulings, R., Wouterse, B., & Ji, K. (2023). Disentangling the effect of household debt on consumption. Empirical Economics.
Wouterse, B., van Baal, P., Versteegh, M., Brouwer, W. (2023). The value of health in cost effectiveness analysis: theory vs practice . Pharmacoeconomics.
Wouterse B, Geisler J, Bär M, & Van Doorslaer, E. (2023). Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?J Epidemiol Community Health,77:244-251.
Bonekamp, J. & Wouterse, B. (2023) Do different shocks in health matter for wealth? Journal of Health Economics, 87: 102719.
De Groot, S., Santi, I, Bakx, P., Wouterse, B., & van Baal, P. (2023) Informal care costs according to age and proximity to death to support cost-effectiveness analyses. Pharmacoeconomics.
Deeg, D., Van der Noordt, M., Van Tilburg, T., Van der Pas, S., & Wouterse, B. (2023). Health trajectories across the work exit transition in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s: the role of working conditions and policy. Archives of Public Health, 81, 16.
Wouterse, B., Bakx, P., & Wong, A. (2023). Measuring nursing home performance using administrative data. Medical Care Research and Review, 80(2), 187-204
Bär, M., Bakx, P., Wouterse, B., Van Doorslaer, E. (2022). Estimating the health value added by nursing homes, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 203, 1-23.
Wouterse, B., Ram, F., & van Baal, P. (2022). Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Lost Due to COVID-19 Mortality: Methods and Application for The Netherlands. Value in Health, pre-print.
Wouterse, B., Hussem, A., & Wong, A. (2022). The risk protection and redistribution effects of long‐term care co‐payments. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 89, 161-186.
Schwandt, H., Currie, J., Bär, M., Banks, J., Bertoli, P., Bütikofer, A., ... , Wouterse, B, & Wuppermann, A. (2021). Inequality in mortality between Black and White Americans by age, place, and cause and in comparison to Europe, 1990 to 2018. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(40).
Kellerborg, K., Wouterse, B., Brouwer, W., & van Baal, P. (2021). Estimating the costs of non-medical consumption in life-years gained for economic evaluations. Social Science & Medicine, 114414.
Kellerborg, K., Brouwer, W., Versteegh, M., Wouterse, B., & van Baal, P. (2021). Distributional consequences of including survivor costs in economic evaluations. Health Economics, 30(10), 2606-2613.
Bär, M., Wouterse, B., Riumallo Herl, C., Van Ourti, T., & van Doorslaer, E. (2021). Diverging Mortality Inequality Trends among Young and Old in the Netherlands. Fiscal Studies, 42 (1), 79-101.
Bakx, P., Wouterse, B., Van Doorslaer, E., & Wong, A. (2020). Better off at home? Effects of nursing home eligibility on costs, hospitalizations and survival, Journal of Health Economics, 73
Van der Burg, D.A., Diepstraten, M. & Wouterse, B. (2020). Long-term care use after a stroke or femoral fracture and the role of family caregivers. BMC Geriatrics 20, 150.
Diepstraten, M., Douven, R., & Wouterse, B. (2020). Can your house keep you out of a nursing home? Health Economics. 29(5): 540-553.
Van Elk, R., Ter Weel, B., Van der Wiel, K., & Wouterse, B. (2019). Estimating the Returns to Public R&D Investments: Evidence from Production Function Models. De Economist. 167(1): 45-87.
Wouterse, B., Van der Wiel, K., & Van der Steeg, M. (2017). Income differences between PhDs and Masters: evidence from the Netherlands. De Economist, 165(4), 439-461.
Wouterse, B., & Smid, B. (2017). How to finance rising costs of Long Term Care? Four alternatives for the Netherlands. Fiscal Studies, 38(3), 369-391.
Wouterse, B., Huisman, M., Meijboom, B. R., Deeg, D. J. H., & Polder, J. J. (2015). The effect of trends in health and longevity on health services use by older adults. BMC Health Services Research, 15:574.
De Vos, M. L., van der Veer, S. N., Wouterse, B., Graafmans, W. C., Peek, N., de Keizer, N. F., Jager, K.J., Westert, G.P., & van der Voort, P. H. (2015). A multifaceted feedback strategy alone does not improve the adherence to organizational guideline-based standards: a cluster randomized trial in intensive care. Implementation Science, 10(1), 95.
De Meijer, C., Wouterse, B., Polder, J.J., Koopmanschap, M. (2013). The effect of population aging on health expenditure growth: a critical review. European Journal of Ageing, 10(4), 353-361.
Wouterse, B., Huisman, M., Meijboom, B. R., Deeg, D. J. H., Polder, J. J. (2013) Modeling the relationship between health and health care expenditures using a latent Markov model. Journal of Health Economics, 32(2), 423-439.
Wong, A., Wouterse, B., Slobbe, L., Boshuizen, H., Polder, J. J. (2012). Medical innovation and age-specific trends in health care utilization: findings and implications. Social Science & Medicine, 74(2), 263-272.
Wouterse, B., Meijboom, B. R., Polder, J. J. (2011). The relationship between baseline health and longitudinal costs of hospital use. Health Economics, 20(7), 355-362.

Books and book chapters

Bakx, P., Van Doorslaer, E., & Wouterse, B. (2025). Long-Term Care in the Netherlands. In J. Guber & K. McGarry (Eds.), Long-Term Care around the World. The University of Chicago Press.
Smid, B., Ter Rele, H., Boeters, S., Draper, N., Nibbelink, A., & Wouterse, B. (2014). Minder zorg om vergrijzing, CPB boek 12. The Hague: CPB.
Polder, J.J., Wong, A., & Wouterse, B. (2012). Vergrijzing: Kosten en baten. In J.H.M. Donders & C.A. de Kam (Eds.), Zorg verzekerd? Naar houdbare financiering voor de gezondheidszorg (pp. 101-123). The Hague: Sdu.

Publications in Dutch

Wouterse, B. (2025). Meewegen arbeidsinzet en duurzaamheid bij vergoeden zorgbehandelingen vergt betere welvaartseconomische analyse. ESB blog, 5 augustus.
Wouterse, B. (2024). Ook voor preventie geldt: geen woorden, maar daden. Blog Smarter Choices For Better Health (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam), 29-02-2024.
Rotteveel, A. H., Polder, J., de Wit, A., & Wouterse, B. (2024). Publieke gezondheid vergt publieke voorfinanciering. ESB, 109(4838), 444-446.
Wouterse, B., Boxebeld, S., & Mierau, J. (2024). Preventie is goed voor de gezondheid en voor de portemonnee. ESB, 109(4838), 440-442.
Wouterse, B., Dijkstra, N., Idrissi, Y., & Vermeulen, W. (2024). Babyboom tijdens coronapandemie vooral bij vrouwen met vaste baan. ESB, 10(4833), 234-236.
Deeg, D., van der Noordt, M., van Tilburg, T., van der Pas, S., & Wouterse, B. (2023). Gezondheid na uittreding uit de arbeidsmarkt. Geron, 28(2).
Van ’t Land, K., Mierau, J., & Wouterse, B. (2022). Preventie levert veel meer op dan gedacht. Medisch Contact, 8 juli 2022, 18-19.
Hagenaars, L., Van ’t Land, K., & Wouterse, B. (2022). Mag het een onsje meer zijn? De rol van gezondheidseconomen in het preventiedebat. VGE Bulletin, Maart 2022, 7-11.
Bär, M., Vermeulen, W., Varkevisser, M, & Wouterse, B. Kiezen voor kwaliteit: feit of fictie? VGE Bulletin, Maart 2022, 16-19.
Wouterse, B., Bakx, P., & Schut, F. (2021) Prikkels voor kwaliteit en preventie bij inkoop ouderenzorg moeten beter. ESB. 106(4802), 486-489..
Koolman, A., & Wouterse, B. (2021). `Bezuinigen’ op de zorg. Zorgvisie 51, 36-41.
Hussem, A., Wouterse, B., & Aalbers, R. (2021). Betere risicospreiding van eigen bijdragen bij verpleeghuiszorg. De Actuaris Juni 2021.
Hagenaars, L., De Nood, R., Wouterse, B., & Polder, J. (2021). Wegen naar goede gezondheid liggen ook buiten de zorg. ESB 104(4794), 92-95.
Wouterse, B. Preventie is belangrijk, maar verlaagt zorgkosten nauwelijks. ESB Blog, 18 agustus,2020
Bakx, P., Van Baal, P., Van Exel, J., & Wouterse, B. (2020). Gebruik bestaand afwegingskader bij heropstarten zorg. ESB 105(4789), 435-437.
Bakx, P., Van Baal, P., Van Exel, J., & Wouterse, B. (2020). Lessen trekken uit de zorguitval tijdens de coronacrisis. ESB Blog, 17 juni 2020
Diepstraten, M, Wouterse, B., & Douven, R. (2019). Dankzij een toegankelijk huis minder snel naar het verpleeghuis. ESB 104 (4773), 232-234.
Douven, R., & Wouterse, B. (2019). Sterke relatie tussen inkomen en zorguitgaven per hoofd. ESB
Wong, A., Bakx, P., Wouterse, B., & Van Doorslaer, E. (2018). Thuiszorg is niet altijd goedkoper dan verpleeghuiszorg. ESB 103 (4765), 419-421.
Wouterse, B., Hussem, A., & ter Rele, H. (2017). Dragen de sterkste schouders de zwaarste lasten in de ouderenzorg? MeJudice 31-10.
Wouterse, B.(2014) Economische gevolgen van het gezond ouder worden. Stichting Maatschappij en Onderneming (blog), 31-03.
Wouterse, B. (2013) Ouderen, gezond of niet, vinden nauwelijks werk. Sociale Vraagstukken, 11-12.
Polder, J., Wong, A., Wouterse, B., & Slobbe, L. (2012). Gezondheidseconomie van de vergrijzing. Tijdschrift voor gerontologie en geriatrie, 43(4), 180-180.
Heijink, R. & Wouterse, B. (2012). Drie perspectieven op financiering ziekenhuiszorg. Verslag VGE/Tranzo Masterclass. VGE Bulletin, 29(1), 11-12.
Wouterse, B., Van der Sar, R. (2010). It takes three to tango: interactie tussen wetenschap, praktijk en zorgvraag. Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidswetenschappen 88(8): 430-431.
Wouterse, B., Heijink, R. (2009). Health is wealth. Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidswetenschappen 87(5): 149-150.

Policy papers

European Commission: Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, ECORYS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, WIFO, Vet, J. M. d., Paulović, T., Turturro, L., Ende, M. v. d., Loretz, S., Schratzenstaller-Altzinger, M., Batura, O., Wouterse, B., Orhan Pees, R., Larmi, I., & Dutta, S. (2025). Health taxes from an EU perspective : final report, Publications Office of the European Union.
Van der Ende, M., Orhan Pees, R., Horlings, C., Batura, O., Wouterse, B., & Hoogendoorn-Lips, M. (2024). Suikerbelasting effectenonderzoek. Ecorys report for the Ministries of Finance and Health.
Wouterse, B., Ram, F., & van Baal, P. (2021). Verloren levensjaren als gevolg van sterfte aan Covid-19. Netspar Design Paper 169, Tilburg: Netspar.
Wouterse, B., & Bakx, PLH. (2021). Review NZa-prognosemodel Wlz-kader.
Bakx, P., Schut, E. & Wouterse, B. (2021). Price setting and contracting help to ensure equitable access in the Netherlands, WKC Policy Series on Long-Term Care No. 6. ed. 3 p.
Bakx, P., Bär, M., Rellstab, S., & Wouterse, B. (2020). Zicht op kwaliteit van verpleeghuiszorg? ESHPM Onderzoeksrapport, ESHPM.
Bakx, P., Bom, J., Van Doorslaer, E., Hussem, A., Schut, E., & Wouterse, B. (2018). Wie zorgt en betaalt voor de ouderen van morgen? Netspar Brief 14, Tilburg: Netspar.
Hussem, A., Ter Rele, H, & Wouterse, B. (2017). Inkomens- en vermogensafhankelijke eigen bijdragen in de langdurige ouderenzorg: een levensloopperspectief, Netspar Design Paper 87, Tilburg: Netspar.
Wouterse, B., Ter Rele, H., & Van Vuuren, D. (2016). Financiering van de zorg op de lange termijn. CPB Policy Brief 2016-10, The Hague: CPB. https://www.cpb.nl/sites/default/files/omnidownload/CPB-Policy-Brief-2016-10-Financiering-van-de-zorg-op-de-lange-termijn.pdf
Wouterse, B., & Ter Rele, H. (2016). Financiering van de zorg op de lange termijn: beschrijving van de analyses. CPB Achtergronddocument, CPB.
Smid, B., & Wouterse, B. (2016). The effect of increasing social participation among older individuals on healthy life expectancy. A scenario analysis. Mopact Deliverable 5.2, Work Package 5, Health and Well-being.
Van Elk, R., Rud, I., & Wouterse, B. (2016). De economische effecten van buitenlandse promovendi. CPB Policy Brief 2016-01, The Hague: CPB.
Rud, I., Wouterse, B., & Van Elk, R. (2015). Stay rates of foreign PhD graduates in the Netherlands. CPB Background Document, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.

Other

11 febuary 2024. Out-of-pocket payments for nursing home residents: Balancing financial protection with incentives for efficient use. (met M. Tenand en P. Bakx). VoxEU.

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