Research

Submitted

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

2. Increasing environmental benefits from agri-environment schemes: The role of short-form advice. Chilton, S., Souza Monteiro, D. M., Mussio, I., Walker, M. J., & Weber, T. O. 

Published in peer-reviewed journals

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. Forthcoming in BMC Health Services Research. 

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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.

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

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

16.  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.

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

Book Chapters

18. 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 

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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)

23. 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