CPHEB & ZEW Mannheim Health Workshop 2025
The Centre for Public Health in Economics and Business (CPHEB) and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim (Germany) jointly organised a workshop on public health in economics and business. This first edition of the workshop took place on February 26 and 27 2025 in Groningen. Both days were filled with interesting discussions of ongoing research, including presentations and pitches.

Program
Nicolas Ziebarth (ZEW): Public Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicaid and the Nursing Home Industry
Laura Viluma (CPHEB): Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities: Evidence from Longitudinal Biomarkers in the Netherlands
Jana Holthöwer (CPHEB): Robots to the Rescue? Service Robots in Health and Elderly
Oliver Schlenker (ZEW): Digital Transformation and the Changing World of Work
Annette Bergemann (CPHEB): The Labour Market and Health Effects of a Diabetes Warning: Evidence of Gender and Age Differences from the Lifelines Cohort Study
Jérémy Hervelin (ZEW): Peer Effects in Job Search Programs
Ahmed Skali (ZEW): Transportation infrastructure and child mortality: Sub-national evidence for 22 developing countries
Claudio Annibali (CPHEB): The Power of The Pill Revised: New Evidence from The Netherlands
Eduard Brüll (ZEW): Keeping the Doctor Away
Hermien Dijk (CPHEB): When Feeling Blue Gets You into the Red: The Effect of Mental Health Problems on the Onset of Problematic Debt
Yaming Cao (ZEW): Covering the Uninsured with Primary Care Networks: Utilization & Spending Implications
Bertrand Achou (CPHEB): Informal Caregiving & Labor Supply: Evidence from a Stated-Choice Experiment
Pablo Zárate (ZEW): Importing Unions: German Migrants and the Rise of the American Labor Movement in 19th Century US
Stefan Pichler (CPHEB): Private vs. Public: Firm Responses to New State Entitlement Programs
Sarah McNamara (ZEW): Sorting, status, and shadow education: How track placement shapes parental investment
Chiara Malavasi (ZEW): Should I Care or Should I Work? Multigenerational Effects of Long-Term Care
Gerard van den Berg (CPHEB): Predicting re-employment: machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers, and the roles of sickness absence and recalls
