PAPER in SSCI JOURNAL

• Childhood Obesity and Health Care Utilization - Empirical Evidence from Austrian Administrative Data, with Andrew J. Hill and Thomas Schober, Childhood Obesity, forthcoming 2022.
   
• Complexities of Health and Acceptance of Electronic Health Records for the Austrian Elderly Population, opens an external URL in a new window, with Nicole Halmdienst and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, European Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming 2022.

• Looking into the Black Box of "Medical Innovation": Rising Health Expenditures by Illness Type, opens an external URL in a new window, with Friedrich Breyer, Normann Lorenz and Thomas Schober, European Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming 2022.

• Paying Adolescents for Health Screenings Works, opens an external URL in a new window (with Martin Halla and Thomas Schober), American Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming 2022.

• Birth Order, Parental Health Investment and Health in Childhood , opens an external URL in a new window(with Nicole Schneeweis, Thomas Schober and Martina Zweimüller), Journal of Health Economics, Vol 76, 2021, 102426.

• Cutting Fertility? The Effect of Cesarean Deliveries on Subsequent Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply, (with Martin Halla, Harald Mayr, and Pilar García-Gómez), Journal of Health Economics, Vol 72, 2020, 102325.

• Retirement and Healthcare Utilization (with Wolfgang Frimmel), Journal of Public Economics, Vol 184/2020, pp 1-18.

• The company you keep - health behavior among work peers (with Thomas Schober and Katrin Zocher), European Journal of Health Economics, Vol 21/2020, pp 251-59.

• Impact of catheter ablation therapy for atrial fibrillation on healthcare expenditure in a middle European cohort (with Martin Martinek, Helmut Pürerfellner and Hermann Blessberger), Europace, Vol 22(4), pp. 576-583.

• Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Thomas Schober), Health Economics, Vol 27/2018, pp.1264-1283.

• Cost savings of developmental screenings: evidence from a nationwide program, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Martin Halla and Thomas Schober), Journal of Health Economics, Vol 49/2016, pp. 120-135.

• Old Boys' Networks in GP's Referral Behavior, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Franz Hackl and Michael Hummer), Journal of Health Economics, Vol 43/2015, pp. 56-73.

• The Effectiveness of Health Screening, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Franz Hackl, Martin Halla and Michael Hummer), Health Economics, Vol 24(8)/2015, pp. 913-935.

• Timing Effects in Health Valuations , opens an external URL in a new window(joint with Andrea M. Leiter), Health Economics, Vol 23(6)/204, pp. 743-750.

• Birth weight and family status revisited: evidence from Austrian register data, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Wolfgang Frimmel), Health Economics, Vol 23(6)/2014, pp. 426-445.

• Low birth weight and health expenditures from birth to late adolescence, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Michael Hummer and Thomas Lehner), European Journal of Health Economics, Vol 15(3)/2014, pp. 229-242.

• Honesty on the Streets: A Field Study on Newspaper Purchasing , opens an external URL in a new window(joint with Rupert Sausgruber), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol 11(3), June 2013, pp. 661-679.

• Volunteering and the State, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Franz Hackl and Martin Halla), Public Choice, Vol 151(3-4)/2012, pp. 465-495.

• Editorial: labor markets, inequality and the welfare state, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Johann K. Brunner), Empirica, Vol 37(2)/2010, pp. 101-103.

• Stress perception and commuting, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Georg Gottholmseder, Klaus Nowotny and Engelbert Theurl), Health Economics, Vol 18(5)/2009, pp. 559-576.

• Proportionality of willingness to pay to small risk changes - the impact of attitudinal factors in scope tests, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Andrea M. Leiter), Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol 42/2009, pp. 169-186.

• Local compensation payments for agri-environmental externalities - a panel data analysis of bargaining outcomes , opens an external URL in a new window(joint with Franz Hackl and Martin Halla), European Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 34/2007, pp. 295-320.

• Volunteering and income - the fallacy of the Good Samaritan?, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Franz Hackl and Martin Halla), Kyklos, Vol 60(1)/2007, pp. 77-104.

• Demand and supply of emergency help: an economic analysis of Red Cross services, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Franz Hackl ), Health Policy, Vol 77/2006, pp. 326-338.

• Warm glow, free-riding and vehicle neutrality in a health-related Contingent Valuation study, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Franz Hackl ), Health Economics, Vol 14/2005, no. 3, pp. 293-306.

• How global is the solution to global warming?, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Franz Hackl), Economic Modelling, Vol 20/2002, no. 1, pp. 93-117.

• On the gap between payment card and closed-ended CVM-questions, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Franz Hackl), Applied Economics, Vol 31/1999, pp. 733-742.

• A fair mechanism for effcient reduction of global CO2-emissions, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Josef Falkinger and Franz Hackl), Finanzarchiv, Band 53/1996, Heft 3+4, S. 308-331.

• Towards More Effcient Compensation Programmes for Tourists' Benefits From Agriculture in Europe, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Franz Hackl), Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol 10/1997, pp. 189-205.

• Environmental Valuation - To use or not to use? A comparative study of the USA and Europe, opens an external URL in a new window (joint with Stale Navrud), Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol 10/1997, no. 1, pp. 1-25.

• Agricultural Landscape Cultivation in Austria - An application of the CVM, opens an external URL in a new window, European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2/1995, S. 173-190.

WORKING PAPERS

• Overweight in children and their healthcare service utilization - evidence from Upper Austria (with Thomas Schober), Department of Economics, University of Linz, 2020