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I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Economics of Lancaster University. My research focuses on the interplay between (mental) health, employment and disability insurance.
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Economics of Lancaster University. My research focuses on the interplay between (mental) health, employment and disability insurance.
Before joining Lancaster, I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Retirement and Disability Policy Research Center at the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER). I obtained my PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute under the supervision of Prof.dr. Pierre Koning and dr. Paul Muller. You can find my CV here.
Before joining Lancaster, I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Retirement and Disability Policy Research Center at the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER). I obtained my PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute under the supervision of Prof.dr. Pierre Koning and dr. Paul Muller. You can find my CV here.
Contact me directly at: r.prudon at lancaster.ac.uk
Contact me directly at: r.prudon at lancaster.ac.uk
Ongoing research projects
Mental health
Job market paper
R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics
Spinoff waiting times for mental health treatment: Deaths of despairs and children
The long-term consequences of mental health screening in high school
(Not) Talking through our mental problems
Disability insurance
Joint with Pierre Koning and Paul Muller.
R&R at Labour Economics
Sick or Unemployed? Examining Exits into Sickness Benefits in the Spike of Unemployment Benefit Exhaustion
Joint with Pierre Koning.
News
October 2024: I was a guest on De Nieuwe Economen Podcast and discussed my research on mental health (in Dutch).
August 2024: Joined Lancaster University as a Lecturer.
April 2024: I have been awarded an NWO Rubicon grant to fund research on mental health interventions and their impact on labor market outcomes
August 2023: Published a policy discussion article in ESB (in Dutch) on the impact of waiting times for mental health treatment. Covered by Dutch newspapers FD, NRC and NOS and by Radio 1 and listed in the top 20 most read articles in ESB in 2023
May 2023: I will be joining the NBER for one year as a post-doctoral fellow
January 2023: Honored to have been awarded the 2021/2022 SBE-Tinbergen best PhD publication award for our paper in the Journal of Health Economics
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