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Institute of Health Economics
 
Institute of Health Economics (IHE) Teaching Thesis
Bachelor Thesis

Topics for the final bachelor thesis summer term 2025

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Umwelt und Gesundheit

5. Health co-benefits and trade-offs of carbon pricing in low- and middle-income countries (Drees)

  • Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
  • Cuevas, S. et al. (2024). Health co-benefits and trade-offs of carbon pricing: a narrative synthesis. Climate Policy, 24(10), 1346-1364. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2356822.
  • Greve, H., & Lay, J. (2023). “Stepping down the ladder”: The impacts of fossil fuel subsidy removal in a developing country. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 10(1), 121-158. https://doi.org/10.1086/721375 

49. Water, Sanitation and Health interventions (Wichert)

  • Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
  • Kremer, Michael, Stephen Luby, Ricardo Maertens, Brandon Tan, und Witold Więcek. 2023. “Water Treatment And Child Mortality: A Meta-Analysis And Cost-effectiveness Analysis.” NBER Working Paper 30835. Cambridge, MA.
  • Burlig, Fiona, Amir Jina, und Anant Sudarshan. 2025. “The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India.” NBER Working Paper 33557. Cambridge, MA.

Potenzielle Auswirkungen von Reformen im Gesundheitswesen

34. The impact of health insurance on service provision by providers in a developing country context: quantity and quality (Drees)

  • Languages: German and English
  • Wagstaff, A., Lindelow, M., Jun, G., Ling, X., & Juncheng, Q. (2009). Extending health insurance to the rural population: an impact evaluation of China's new cooperative medical scheme.Journal of health economics,28(1), 1–19.
  • Zhang, X., & Nie, H. (2021). Public health insurance and pharmaceutical innovation: Evidence from China. Journal of Development Economics, 148, 102578. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438782030153X

Altern und Vorsorge

45. Workplace Practices and Healthy Aging (Maffeis)

  • Language: English
  • Jirjahn, U., Mohrenweiser, J., 2025. Management Practices, Workplace Health Promotion and Productivity. IZA DP No. 18059. Link to paper
  • Beier, M.E., Kanfer, R., Kooij, D.T.A.M., Truxillo, D.M., 2022. What’s age got to do with it? A primer and review of the workplace aging literature. Personnel Psychology 75, 779–804. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12544

46. Behavioral and Non-Monetary Incentives in Health Prevention (Maffeis)

  • Language: English
  • Michaud T.L., Estabrooks P.A., You W., Ern J., Scoggins D., Gonzales K., King K.M., Dai H., Su D., 2022. Effectiveness of incentives to improve the reach of health promotion programs – a systematic review and meta-analysis. Preventive Medicine, 162:107141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107141
  • Triyana M., White J.S., 2022. Non-monetary incentives for tobacco prevention among youth in Indonesia. Journal of Health Economics, 83:102620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102620

47. Innovative Approaches to Measuring Efficiency in Healthcare (Maffeis)

  • Language: English
  • Hollingsworth, B., 2008. The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery. Health Economics, 17(10):1107–1128. doi.org/10.1002/hec.1391

Pflege

11. Interrelations Between Informal Care and Employment (Noll)

  • Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
  • Heger, D., & Korfhage, T. (2020). Short- and Medium-Term Effects of Informal Eldercare on Labor Market Outcomes. Feminist Economics, 26(4), 205–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2020.1786594
  • Scheuermann, JS., Pendergrass, A., Diehl, K. et al. The roles of employment status and income in the mental health of informal caregivers in Germany. BMC Public Health 24, 2802 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20252-y 

51. Gender Differences in the Prevalence and Wellbeing of Young Carers (Drees)

  • Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
  •  Bowman Grangel, Aoife; McMahon, Jennifer; Dunne, Nikki; O'Donoghue, Fay; Gallagher, Stephen (2025): Health outcomes and psychosocial determinants in young carers: a systematic review. In: The Lancet. Public health 10 (7), 625-639. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00099-4.
  • Raji, Naseem Akorede; Liverpool, Shaun; Bannerman, Fariba; Fletcher, Ken A. (2025): Experiences and outcomes of young carers living in low-and middle-income countries: a scoping review and narrative synthesis. In: Journal of Child and Family Studies 34 (1), S. 83–94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02992-y

Soziale Normen und Gesundheit

52. Social Cohesion and Preventive Health Behavior (Drees)

  • Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
  • Cárdenas, Diana; Orazani, Nima; Manueli, Farah; Donaldson, Jessica L.; Stevens, Mark; Cruwys, Tegan et al. (2023): Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake. In: Social & Personality Psych 17 (7),  https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12759.
  • Chupak, Anna L.; Rudisill, Caroline; Harrison, Sayward; Linvill, Katie; Costa-Font, Joan; Hung, Peiyin; Li, Xiaoming (2024): Impact of perceived neighborhood social cohesion on vaccination intentions in the post-pandemic era. In: Preventive Medicine 189, 108158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.108158.

53. Intergenerational Inequalities in Health (Mayr)

  • Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
  • Bencsik, P., Halliday, T. J., & Mazumder, B. (2023). The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom. Journal of Health Economics, 92, 102805. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102805
  • Coneus, K., & Spiess, C. K. (2012). The intergenerational transmission of health in early childhood—Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Economics & Human Biology, 10(1), 89–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2011.03.002

Weitere Themen:

42.   Wirtschaftliche Komplexität als Ursache von Übergewicht in modernen Volkswirtschaften (Zeidler)

  • Djeunankan, R., Tadadjeu, S., Njangang, H., Mazhar, U. (2024). The hidden cost of sophistication: economic complexity and obesity. The European Journal of Health Economics doi.org/10.1007/s10198-024-01699-7

44.   Machine Learning for Causal Inference in Health Policy (Maffeis)

  • Language: English
  • Lourenço L, Weber L, Garcia L, Ramos V, Souza J., 2024. Machine Learning Algorithms to Estimate Propensity Scores in Health Policy Evaluation: A Scoping Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 21(11):1484. doi:10.3390/ijerph21111484
  • Blakely T, Lynch J, Simons K, Bentley R, Rose S., 2021. Reflection on modern methods: when worlds collide—prediction, machine learning and causal inference. Int J Epidemiol. 49(6):2058–64. doi:10.1093/ije/dyz132

50. Electricity Access and Socio-economic development (Wichert)

54. Quality and Competition in Healthcare (Mayr)

  • Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
  • Brosig-Koch, J., Hehenkamp, B., & Kokot, J. (2017). The effects of competition on medical service provision. Health Economics, 26(S3), 6–20. doi.org/10.1002/hec.3583
  • Brosig-Koch, J., Hehenkamp, B., & Kokot, J. (2023). Who benefits from quality competition in health care? A theory and a laboratory experiment on the relevance of patient characteristics. Health Economics, 32(8), 1785–1817. doi.org/10.1002/hec.4689

 

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