Christoph Kronenberg
I am a PostDoc and (Acting) Head of the research group Empirical Analysis of Competition in Health Care Markets at CINCH, University Duisburg-Essen. I am also managing director of the Leibniz Science Campus Ruhr, RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research.
Previously, I was employed as a research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York (UK), where I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics in 2018.
Primary Field: Mental Health Economics
Secondary Fields: Labor Economics, Economic History
I am the founder and organizer of the Essen Economics of Mental Health Workshop.
Links to my institutional website & Google Scholar. My email is christoph.kronenberg@uni-due.de. You can download my CV here. References are available on request.
News:
5/2024 - The 2025 Economics of Mental Health Workshop has just been funded - stay tuned!
1/2024 - The 2024 Economics of Mental Health Workshop will take place in August at the U. Minnesota - see here for more information.
3/2023 - The 2023 Economics of Mental Health Workshop will take place in London in cooperation with Queen Mary University London. More info at: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sef/postgrad-study/msc-mental-health-economics/econ_mh_workshop/
10/2022 - The special issue in Health Economics in relation to the 2021 Essen Economics of Mental Health Workshop is now out: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991050/2022/31/S2
6/2022 - Thanks to the Förderverein der Universität Duisburg-Essen, the 2023 edition of the Essen Economics of Mental Health Workshop is now fully financed.
5/2022 - Together with colleagues from Essen and Sweden I received a grant from Handelsbanken Foundation to study "Education and Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic" with a focus on mental health.
7/2021 - My paper New(spaper) evidence of a reduction in suicide mentions during the 19th century US gold rush has been published in Health Economics
3/2021 - My paper A new measure of 19th century US suicides has been published Social Indicator Research
7/2020 - I have received funding for the Essen Economics of Mental Health Workshop from the Förderverein der Universität Duisburg-Essen
2/2020 - Research visit to the Monash Centre for Health Economics
11/2019 - The UK Royal Economics Society has awarded me a Special Project Grant by to further support the Essen Economics of Mental Health Workshop
8/2019 - I have won the third Mardia Prize by the UK Royal Statistical Society to support the Essen Economics of Mental Health Workshop
5/2019 - My paper "How did the 2008–11 financial crisis affect work-related common mental distress? Evidence from 393 workplaces in Great Britain" was published in Economics and Human Biology. Thanks to Jan Böhnke for being a great co-author.