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Erik Schokkaert

Erik Schokkaert

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
40
Citations
6235
World Ranking
2315
National Ranking
26

Overview

Erik Schokkaert is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of economics, econometrics, finance, and social sciences, with additional work related to health professions.

Their research covers a range of topics, with a focus on health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life. Other main topics include global health care issues, experimental behavioral economics studies, economic and environmental valuation, healthcare policy and management, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, as well as income, poverty, and inequality.

Schokkaert has published in various venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Economics and Philosophy
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Health Economics
  • Medical Care Research and Review

Among their recent papers are:

  • "To be or not to be: Future lives in economic evaluation" (2021, Health Economics)
  • "Empirical Research on Ethical Preferences: How Popular Is Prioritarianism?" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Scope and Incentives for Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets With Regulated Competition: A Conceptual Framework and International Comparison" (2024, Medical Care Research and Review)
  • "Fairness Gaps for Earnings Tax Design" (2024, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics)
  • "Fair Earnings Tax Reforms" (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Co-author networks around Schokkaert include frequent collaboration with:

  • Koen Decancq
  • Bart Capéau
  • François Maniquet
  • Laurens Cherchye
  • André Decoster

In addition to journal articles, Schokkaert has a book publication titled Prioritarianism in Practice (2022) published by Cambridge University Press.

Their subfields of study extend into economics and econometrics, general health professions, accounting, sociology and political science, and safety research, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to economic and health-related questions.

Best Publications

  • Unfair inequalities in health and health care

    Marc Fleurbaey;Erik Schokkaert;Erik Schokkaert

  • Identifying the warm glow effect in contingent valuation

    Paulo A.L.D Nunes;Paulo A.L.D Nunes;Paulo A.L.D Nunes;Erik Schokkaert

  • Sen's Concept of the Living Standard applied to the Belgian Unemployed

    Erik Schokkaert;Luc Van Ootegem

  • Equity in health and health care

    Marc Fleurbaey;Erik Schokkaert

  • Risk adjustment and risk selection on the sickness fund insurance market in five European countries.

    Wynand P.M.M van de Ven;Konstantin Beck;Florian Buchner;Dov Chernichovsky

  • Empirical social choice

    W. Gaertner;Erik Schokkaert

  • Empirical Social Choice: Questionnaire-Experimental Studies on Distributive Justice

    Wulf Gaertner;Erik Schokkaert

  • Three Meanings of Intergenerational Mobility

    Dirk Van De Gaer;Erik Schokkaert;Michel Martinez

  • The Capabilities Approach

    Erik Schokkaert

  • Responsibility-sensitive fair compensation in different cultures

    Erik Schokkaert;Kurt Devooght

  • Capabilities and Satisfaction with Life

    Erik Schokkaert

  • Preconditions for efficiency and affordability in competitive healthcare markets: are they fulfilled in Belgium, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and Switzerland?

    Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven;Konstantin Beck;Florian Buchner;Erik Schokkaert

  • The Evolution of World Inequality in Well-being

    Koen Decancq;André Decoster;Erik Schokkaert;Erik Schokkaert

  • Moral intuitions and economic models of distributive justice

    E. Schokkaert;B. Overlaet

  • The empirical analysis of transfer motives

    Erik Schokkaert

  • Happiness, Equivalent Incomes and Respect for Individual Preferences

    Koen Decancq;Marc Fleurbaey;Erik Schokkaert

  • Equality of Opportunity versus Equality of Opportunity Sets

    Erwin Ooghe;Erik Schokkaert;Erik Schokkaert;Dirk Van de gaer;Dirk Van de gaer

  • Risk selection and the specification of the conventional risk adjustment formula.

    Erik Schokkaert;Carine Van de Voorde

  • Debate on Social Justice and Pension Reform: Social Justice and the Reform of Europe's Pension Systems

    Erik Schokkaert;Philippe Van Parijs

  • Empirical Social Choice

    Wulf Gaertner;Erik Schokkaert

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Fleurbaey
Marc Fleurbaey Paris School of Economics
Stef Proost
Stef Proost KU Leuven
Pierre Pestieau
Pierre Pestieau University of Liège
Philippe Van Parijs
Philippe Van Parijs Université Catholique de Louvain
Paulo A. L. D. Nunes
Paulo A. L. D. Nunes Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Jacques H. Dreze
Jacques H. Dreze Université Catholique de Louvain
Victor Ginsburgh
Victor Ginsburgh Université Libre de Bruxelles
Paul De Grauwe
Paul De Grauwe London School of Economics and Political Science
Gert Matthijs
Gert Matthijs KU Leuven

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