Three members of our Public Health and Prevention team held oral presentations, showcasing results from their ongoing research projects at the 2024 biannual conference of the European Health Economics Association, alongside 13 other researchers from our newly created Munich Center of Health Economics and Policy.
PhD student Stefanie Pechar presented an ongoing study from her thesis project on fertility trends and the role of women in politics in sub-Saharan Africa. In her study, she leverages the staggered surge in gender quota legislation that took place in sub-Saharan Africa mainly after the year 2000 to employ a quasi-experimental approach to estimate the effect of increased female political representation on the total fertility rate and other outcomes of women’s reproductive health.
PhD student Xiao Tan presented her master’s thesis on the impact of adolescent overweight and obesity on direct healthcare costs and health-related quality of life in Germany. Using the most up-to-date representative data, the study found that overweight and obesity significantly reduced adolescents’ physical health, psychological well-being, and peer relationships but had no significant effect on health care utilization and health care costs
Renee Stark presented the results of the Adipositas Care & Health Therapy (ACHT) Project funded by the G-BA (Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss) Innovation fund . The study showed that the 18-month ACHT program improved general overall health and quality of life of participants when starting it immediately after surgery but not when starting it 18 months after surgery.