Who is afraid of political risk?, 2009 (13-6-16)

I hold a position as Assistant Professor for Applied Microeconomics at the Department of Economics at the University of Leuven. My research focuses on health, labor and behavioral economics. One strand of my work centers on the long-term consequences of early childhood shocks on health and labor market outcomes, and also on preferences and behavior. In another strand of work I use internet experiments in order to learn about the effect of professional norms on physician decisions as well as about the effect of the size of the affected group on distributional preferences. I obtained a Ph.D. in economics in 2010 from the University of Munich, and I have worked there as a postdoctoral researcher until September 2014. In the last few years, I have been a visiting scholar at a number of institutions such as Boston University, the Harvard Health Care Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Center of Population and Development Studies, the RAND Corporation, the University of York, and the University of Mannheim.