Research

Submitted

1. From the Rare to the Essential: Analyzing the Needs of Physicians and Families Managing Rare Diseases,  with Patricia Triunfo, Mariana Gerstenblüth, Victor Raggio, Patricia Cardozo, Lucia Spangenberg and Hugo Naya

2. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Tobacco Cessation Program in a Country with Advanced Smoking Policies, with Patricia Triunfo, Mariana Gerstenblüth

Published in peer-reviewed journals

1. Mussio, I., Chilton, S., Kent, D. A., Gerald, L. B., & Wilson, A. M. (2025). Applying a Risk‐Risk Tradeoff Economics Approach to the Occupational Health of Nurses: Economic and Microbial Risk Analysis. Risk Analysis.

2. Bulla-Holthaus, N., Kairies-Schwarz, N., & Mussio, I. (2025). The effects of cognitive load and mindfulness meditation on decisions related to risk and time. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 118, 102412.

3. Amir‐ud‐Din, R., Khan, M., Murad, Z., & Mussio, I. (2025). Clear Waters, Bright Futures: Do Low‐Cost Information Interventions Increase Health Preventive Behaviors. Health Economics.

   • Blog coverage in English.

4. Wilson, A. M., Mussio, I., Verhougstraete, M. P., Jung, Y., Ashraf, A., Chilton, S., & Hamilton, K. A. (2025). A risk-risk tradeoff approach for incorporating the public’s risk perceptions into quantitative microbial risk assessment. Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene, 22(2), 132-148.

5. Kairies-Schwarz, N., Mussio, I., Bulla-Holthaus, N., Wankmüller, E., Wolff, G., Gontscharuk, V., ... & Icks, A. (2024). Risk and time preferences in individuals with lifestyle-related and non-lifestyle-related cardiovascular diseases: a pilot study. BMJ open, 14(5), e080867.

6. Chilton, S., Duxbury, D., Mussio, I., Nielsen, J. S., & Sharma, S. (2024). A double-bounded risk-risk trade-off analysis of heatwave-related mortality risk: Evidence from India. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 68(1), 1-23.

   • Blog  coverage in English.

7. Forteza, A., Mussio, I., & Pereyra, J. S. (2024). Can political gridlock undermine checks and balances? A lab experiment. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 108, 102128.

8. Mussio, I., Chilton, S., Duxbury, D., & Nielsen, J. S. (2024). A risk–risk trade‐off assessment of climate‐induced mortality risk changes. Risk Analysis, 44(3), 536-552.

   • Media coverage in English, Newcastle University, Living Deltas Hub

9. Mussio, I., & de Oliveira, A. C. (2022). An (un) healthy social dilemma: a normative messaging field experiment with flu vaccinations. Health Economics Review, 12(1), 41.

10. Mussio, I., Sosa Andrés, M., & Kidwai, A. H. (2023). Higher order risk attitudes in the time of COVID-19: an experimental study. Oxford Economic Papers, 75(1), 163-182.

11. Mussio, I., & de Oliveira, A. C. (2022). The effect of additional background risk on mixed risk behavior. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 6(S1), 85-92. Special Issue: Recent Applications and Developments in Behavioral Economics and Finance

12. Mussio, I., Brandt, S., & Hanemann, M. (2021). Parental beliefs and willingness to pay for reduction in their child's asthma symptoms: A joint estimation approach. Health Economics, 30(1), 129-143.

13. Rossi, M., Chouhy, C., & Mussio, I. (2017). Vigilante justice and police protocols in the Latin American south cone. Sociology International Journal, 14-20.

14. Forteza, A., & Mussio, I. (2017). Contribution densities, transitions and pension rights: The case of Jordan. Journal of International Development, 29(1), 67-88.

15.  Ateca-Amestoy, V., Gerstenblüth, M., Mussio, I., & Rossi, M. (2016). How do cultural activities influence happiness? Investigating the relationship between self-reported well-being and leisure. Estudios Económicos, 31(2), 217-234.

16. Forteza, A., & Mussio, I. (2011). Assessing redistribution in the Uruguayan social security system.. Journal of Income Distribution 21(1): 65-87.

Book Chapters

17. Mussio, I., & De Oliveira, A. C. (2023). Norms, networks, nudges: Non-traditional approaches to improve healthy behaviours. In Handbook of Research Methods and Applications on Behavioural Economics. (pp. 444-472). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Selected working papers 

18. Miles-Touya, D., Mussio, I., & Rossi, M. (2015). Trust and Confidence in Institutions: religious beliefs and educational attainment. Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 0515, Department of Economics, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

19. Bucheli, M., Mussio, I., & Rossi, M. (2013). Imparting and receiving violence at home in Uruguay. Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 0713, Department of Economics, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

20. Melgar, N., Mussio, I., & Rossi, M. (2013). Environmental concern and behavior: do personal attributes matter? Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 0113, Department of Economics, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

Book reviews

21. Developing annuities markets: The experience of Chile. Irene Mussio and Mirko Cardinale. 2007. Rocha, Roberto and Thorburn, Craig. The World Bank, 2006, ISBN 0-8213-6666-1, 288 pages. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 6 (3): 354-6.

Policy reports (in Spanish)

22. Informe sobre prueba diagnóstica aplicada a estudiantes que ingresan a la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Irene Mussio and Leonardo Martinotti. 2013. Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 1213, Department of Economics, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República