Themen für Bachelor-Abschlussarbeiten Studienjahr 2026/27
Hinweis: Bereits vergebene Themen werden hier nicht mehr aufgeführt.
Umwelt, Entwicklung und Gesundheit
2. SME’s Energy-Efficiency-Gap in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Barriers, Incentives, and Policy Instruments (Mayen)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Gerarden, Todd D., Richard G. Newell, and Robert N. Stavins. 2017. “Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap.” Journal of Economic Literature 55 (4): 1486–1525. DOI: https://10.1257/jel.20161360
- Allcott, Hunt, and Michael Greenstone. 2012. “Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (1): 3–28. DOI: https://10.1257/jep.26.1.3
5. Public health infrastructure and moving decisions (Wichert)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- McCulloch, Sean E. , Matthew P. Schaelling, Matthew Turner, and Toru Kitagawa, "Sewers and Urbanization in the Developing World," NBER Working Paper 33597 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3386/w33597.
- Patel A, Joseph G, Killemsetty N, Eng S (2020) Effects of residential mobility and migration on standards of living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A life-course approach. PLOS ONE 15(9): e0239735. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239735.
6. Income and commuting in metropoles in low-income countries: evidence from big data (Wichert)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Deffebach, Peter, David Lagakos, Yuhei Miyauchi, and Eiji Yamada, "The Spatial Distribution of Income in Cities: New Global Evidence and Theory," NBER Working Paper 34505 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3386/w34505.
- Patel A, Joseph G, Killemsetty N, Eng S (2020) Effects of residential mobility and migration on standards of living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A life-course approach. PLOS ONE 15(9): e0239735. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239735.
7. Moving to opportunity – evidence from housing lotteries among urban poor (Wichert)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Barnhardt, Sharon, Erica Field, and Rohini Pande. 2017. "Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9 (1): 1–32.
- Andersen, Asbjørn G., Kotsadam, Andreas and Vincent Somville, 2022, „Material resources and well-being — Evidence from an Ethiopian housing lottery“ Journal of Health Economics, Volume 83, 102619,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102619.
- Franklin, Simon (2025) : The demand for and impacts of government housing: Evidence from Ethiopian lotteries, Working Paper, No. 986, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London.
9. Collective Action in Local Commons: Conditions for Successful Self-Governance and Self-Organization for Water (Mayen)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Ostrom, E. (2009). A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems. Science, 325(5939), 419–422. DOI: 10.1126/science.1172133
- McGinnis, Michael D., and Elinor Ostrom. “Social-Ecological System Framework: Initial Changes and Continuing Challenges.” Ecology and Society 19, no. 2 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06387-190230
Bildung und Gesundheit
11. Kindertagesbetreuung und Gesundheit von Kindern (Quis)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Barschkett, Mara, Age-specific Effects of Early Daycare on Children's Health (December 2022). DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 2028, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4304668 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4304668
- Cornelissen, T., Dustmann, C., Raute, A. and Schönberg, U. (2018), ‘Who benefits from universal child care? Estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance’, Journal of Political Economy 126(6), 2356–2409.
Altern, Pflege und Vorsorge
15. Workplace Practices and Healthy Aging (Maffeis)
- Sprache: Englisch
- 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
16. Behavioral and Non-Monetary Incentives in Health Prevention (Maffeis)
- Sprache: Englisch
- 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
17. Innovative Approaches to Measuring Efficiency in Healthcare (Maffeis)
- Sprache: Englisch
- 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
18. 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
19. 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
Künstliche Intelligenz und Zukunft des Gesundheitssystems
20. The impact of AI on health care service use, treatment effectiveness, and innovation: a review of health economic experiments (Reichert)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Agarwal, N., Moehring, A., Rajpurkar, P., & Salz, T. (2023). Combining human expertise with artificial intelligence: Experimental evidence from radiology (No. w31422). National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Toner-Rodgers, A. (2024). Artificial intelligence, scientific discovery, and product innovation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17866.
21. Medizin der Zukunft: KI und Verschreibungsverhalten / Future Medicine: AI and prescribing behaviour (Herr)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Ziyi Wang, Lijia Wei, Lian Xue, Overcoming medical overuse with AI assistance: An experimental investigation, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 103, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.103043
23. Medizin der Zukunft: KI und Verantwortung/ Future Medicine: AI and responsibility (Herr)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Haytham Siala, Yichuan Wang, SHIFTing artificial intelligence to be responsible in healthcare: A systematic review, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 296, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114782.
- Boscardin, Christy K. PhD; Gin, Brian MD, PhD; Golde, Polo Black; Hauer, Karen E. MD, PhD. ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence for Medical Education: Potential Impact and Opportunity. Academic Medicine 99(1):p 22-27, January 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005439
- Murphy, K., Di Ruggiero, E., Upshur, R. et al. Artificial intelligence for good health: a scoping review of the ethics literature. BMC Med Ethics 22, 14 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00577-8
24. Integration von Künstlicher Intelligenz in die Diagnoseprozesse des Gesundheitswesens (Herr)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Jiang, F., Jiang, Y., Zhi, H. et al. (2017). Artificial intelligence in healthcare: past, present and future. Stroke and vascular neurology, 2(4), 230-243.
Stationäre Versorgung
25. Literature review: decentralized health facility financing versus performance-based payments for health care in developing countries/ Literaturüberblick: Dezentrale Finanzierung von Gesundheitseinrichtungen versus leistungsabhängige Zahlungen für die Gesundheitsversorgung in Entwicklungsländern (Reichert)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- de Walque, D., P. J. Robyn, H. Saidou, G. Sorgho, and M. Steenland. (2021). Looking into the Performance-Based Financing Black Box: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in the Health Sector in Cameroon. Health Policy and Planning 36 (6): 835–47.
- Madhulika Khanna, Benjamin Loevinsohn, Elina Pradhan, Opeyemi Fadeyibi, Kevin McGee, Oluwole Odutolu, Gyorgy Bela Fritsche, Emmanuel Meribole, Christel Vermeersch, and Eeshani Kandpal (2012). Decentralized facility financing versus performance-based payments in primary health care: A large-scale randomized controlled trial in Nigeria, BMC Medicine 19: 224. bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s12916-021-02092-4.pdf
- Wu Zeng, Donald Shepard, Ha Thi Hong Nguyen, and Collins Chansa, Ashis Das, Jumana Qamruddin, and Jef Friedman (2018). Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Results Based Financing Program in Zambia: Results from a Cluster Randomized Trial, Bulletin of the World Health Organization 96(11): 760-771
Versorgungsforschung
27. Rassismus und Gesundheitsversorgung (Herr)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Chan, A. (2024) Discrimination Against Doctors: A Field Experiment, Working Paper https://drive.google.com/file/d/11H3ahVwCE1ebjS33_juvJlnNa13lWpOJ/view
- Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations-und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM) (2023): Rassismus und seine Symptome. Bericht des Nationalen Diskriminierungs-und Rassismusmonitors. Berlin.
- Dolezsar, Cynthia M.; McGrath, Jennifer J.; Herzig, Alyssa J. M.; Miller, Sydney B. (2014): Perceived racial discrimination and hypertension: a comprehensive systematic review. In: Health Psychology 33 (1), S. 20–34. DOI: 10.1037/a0033718.
- Weichselbaumer, D. (2016) Discrimination against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves. IZA Discussion Paper No. 10217.
28. Versorgungssituation von Trans*-Personen (Quis)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Falck, F., Bränström, R. The significance of structural stigma towards transgender people in health care encounters across Europe: Health care access, gender identity disclosure, and discrimination in health care as a function of national legislation and public attitudes. BMC Public Health 23, 1031 (2023). Doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15856-9
29. Chancen und Risiken digitaler Gesundheitsanwendungen (Noll)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Sauermann, S., Herzberg, J., Burkert, S., & Habetha, S. (2022). DiGA – A Chance for the German Healthcare System. Journal of European CME, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/21614083.2021.2014047
31. Empirical evidence on shared decision-making in ambulatory care (Stacherl)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Frimmer, V. (2025) "Shared Decision Making: Was es für eine gemeinsame Entscheidungsfindung braucht" Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Ausgabe 15/2025: A874-A877
- Elwyn G, et al. (2012). "Shared decision making: a model for clinical practice." Journal of General Internal Medicine, 27(10):1361-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-012-2077-6
32. Effects of care continuity on care utilization, health outcomes, and costs (Stacherl)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Bazemore, A., Merenstein, Z., Handler, L. & Saultz, J.W. (2023) "The Impact of Interpersonal Continuity of Primary Care on Health Care Costs and Use: A Critical Review" The Annals of Family Medicine, 21(3): 274-279. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2961
- Agarwal, G., Crooks, V.A. (2008) "The nature of informational continuity of care in general practice." British Journal of General Practice, 58(556): e17-24. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp08X342624
33. Access to mental health services and unmet need among migrants and non-migrants (Stacherl)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Boettcher, V. S., Nowak, A. C., & Neuner, F. (2021). „Mental health service utilization and perceived barriers to treatment among adult refugees in Germany.“ European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2021.1910407
- Klein, J., von dem Knesebeck, O. (2018) „Inequalities in health care utilization among migrants and non-migrants in Germany: a systematic review.“ International Journal for Equity in Health, 17: 160. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0876-z
Women’s empowerment/Reproductive Health/Family Planning
34. Empirical evidence on the economic effect of family planning policies in low- and middle income countries: a literature review (Reichert)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Miller, G. (2010). Contraception as development? New evidence from family planning in Colombia. The Economic Journal, 120(545), 709-736.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02306.x
- Huang, W., Pan, Y., & Zhou, Y. (2023). One-child policy, marriage distortion, and welfare loss. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-47.
35. Access to (Legal) Abortion and its Impact on Women’s Health & Socioeconomic Outcomes and/or Infants’ Health (Mayr)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Gardner, G. (2024). The maternal and infant health consequences of restricted access to abortion in the United States. Journal of Health Economics, 98, 102938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102938
- Lindo, J. M., & Pineda-Torres, M. (2021). New Evidence on the Effects of Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortion. Journal of Health Economics, 80, 102533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102533
- Clarke, D., & Mühlrad, H. (2021). Abortion laws and women’s health. Journal of Health Economics, 76, 102413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102413
- Foster, D. G., Biggs, M. A., Ralph, L., Gerdts, C., Roberts, S., & Glymour, M. M. (2022). Socioeconomic Outcomes of Women Who Receive and Women Who Are Denied Wanted Abortions in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 112(9), 1290–1296. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304247
36. Inequalities in maternity care and pregnancy outcomes for migrant and ethnic minority women (Starcherl)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Fair F, Raben L, Watson H, Vivilaki V, van den Muijsenbergh M, et al. (2020) „Migrant women’s experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and maternity care in European countries: A systematic review.“ PLOS ONE, 15(2): e0228378. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228378
Soziale Normen und Gesundheit
39. 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
40. 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
Potenzielle Auswirkungen von Reformen im Gesundheitswesen
43. Impact of health insurance on service provision by providers: A literature review on quantity and quality (Reichert)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- 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. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438782030153X
44. Risk, Wealth and the Decision to Insure: A Literature Review on Long-Term Care Insurance (Maffeis)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Joan Costa-Font, Richard Frank, Nilesh Raut, The Effects of Wealth Shocks on Public and Private Long-Term Care Insurance, Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 103086, ISSN 167-6296, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.103086.
Weitere Themen
45. Gesundheit von LGBTQIA* - Personen (Quis)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Pöge K, Dennert G, Koppe U, Güldenring A, Matthigack EB et al. (2020) Die gesundheitliche Lage von lesbischen, schwulen, bisexuellen sowie trans- und intergeschlechtlichen Menschen. Journal of Health Monitoring 5(S1): 2–30. DOI 10.25646/6448
46. Machine Learning for Causal Inference in Health Policy (Maffeis)
- Sprache: Englisch
- 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
47. Determinants of COVID-19 mortality and morbidity - A Cross-country analysis (Drees)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Chang, D., Chang, X., He, Y. et al. (2022). The determinants of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality across countries. Scientific Reports 12, 5888 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09783-9.
48. Understanding the Demand for Malaria Vaccination: A Health Economic Analysis (Drees)
- Sprache: Englisch oder Deutsch
- Osoro CB, Ochodo E, Kwambai TK, Otieno JA, Were L, Sagam CK, et al. (2024). Policy uptake and implementation of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in sub-Saharan African countries: status 2 years following the WHO recommendation. BMJ Global Health. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-014719.
- Adoma, P.O., Acquah, F., Yakubu, A. et al. (2025). Community engagement in promoting malaria vaccine uptake for children Under-Five. Scientific Reports. 15, 26711 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-01616-9.