Blogs & Media
I believe research with impact is more than just citations and publishing in top journals. Below are some of my attempts to translate research to practice.
Podcast: Economie & Gezondheid
In this Dutch Podcast that hosts new voices in economics, I discussed my work in health economics from a broad point of view. Listen here: https://esb.nu/seizoen-2-aflevering-4-gezondheidseconomie/
https://www.eur.nl/nieuws/wat-kunnen-economen-doen-voor-een-gezonde-samenleving
Smarter Choices for Better Health
Any blogs about my work as a post-doctoral researcher in the Erasmus Initiative Smarter Choices for Better Health (Action Line: Prevention) can be found here.
Ph.D. research coverage
Around my Ph.D. defence, my research was covered in several media outlets.
Erasmus University Rotterdam's homepage
Blogs and other popular science articles
Please find an overview of blogs and popular science articles I've written about my Ph.D. research below:
The value of health: What would you do if you had just 10 more years to live?
Popular science article - Putting a price on life: why and how
Understanding decisions about length and quality of life
A large part of the research I conducted during my Ph.D. research focuses on health state valuation, or in other words how we quantify quality of life. My focus was on understanding how we decide in the tasks generally used to quantify quality of life ('time trade-off and standard gamble'). Several of my Publications have been covered by Academic Health Economists' Blog, who provide excellent and accessible summaries of published work:
Understanding Pest Control
Together with dr. Sara Burt I published papers on pest control (available via 'Publications'). Besides this study, we wrote several short reports on the studies::
