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The seminar will be presented by Professor Thijs van Rens of the University of Warwick. He is a Professor of Economics and academic co-lead of the University of Warwick's Global Research Priority on Food, where he leads the 'Food and Health' theme. His research interests are macroeconomics, business cycles, labour markets,...

 Time preference, illness and death. Abstract: This presentation investigates the predictive power of time preferences on the risk of early mortality and illness in adulthood. Using a unique cohort of 12,956 individuals born in 1953, interviewed in 1966 and followed with register data up to 2018, it finds that patient adolescents...

Title - Applications and use of DCEs in decision making Professor Deborah Marshall has experience in technology assessment agencies, academia and pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry research settings in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Her research program examines methods to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare services in the context of...

Coherent but arbitrary: understanding ordering effects in health preference elicitation tasks.

Join us for a Scottish Health Economics (SHE) virtual seminar on 'Health Economics and COVID-19 Vaccines'. Programme: Introduction and SHE update (Marjon van der Pol, University of Aberdeen). Economic evaluation of COVID delivery models (Neil Chalmers, Public Health Scotland). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the Scottish population of working age: a survey experiment of vaccine...

Title: Resource allocation for genomics and rare disease diagnosis: where we were and next steps for evaluation Abstract: Genomic testing presents an opportunity to rapidly diagnose rare diseases, the majority of which are believed to be genetic in origin. Both the rare disease setting and the context of genomic technologies pose specific challenges...

A research seminar with Professor Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Title: Labour market shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, inequalities and child outcomes Authors: Claudia Hupkau (CUNEF & CEP, LSE), Ingo Isphording (IZA), Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE), Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (CEP,...

Using economic methods to elicit the UK general public's preferences for government responses during a pandemic

Using DCEs to value health for economic evaluation: state of play and future challenges.  Abstract: Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) have become increasingly widely used to value health, with the potential of use in construction of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). Relative to other leading methods, they are cheap, easy to implement, and generally...

Title: Food standard hygiene rating data: a longitudinal data set to evaluate changes in the food environment over time. Abstract: This presentation will outline several ongoing projects related to evaluating the impact of the food environment on health and health inequalities. I will start by discussing the Food Standard Agency Hygiene Rating...