2026 Owen O'Donnell: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	49	1406	1250	40	36	158	18114

Overview

Owen O'Donnell is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans several main fields including Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Health Professions, and Medicine. Their subfields of study further focus on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The research topics they explore cover a wide array of issues related to global health and economic aspects of healthcare. These topics include:

Global Health Care Issues
Healthcare Systems and Reforms
Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
Healthcare Policy and Management
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Health disparities and outcomes
Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Among the frequent publication venues for their work are:

Global Heart
Journal of Health Economics
Health Systems & Reform
PLoS Medicine
Health Policy

Their recent notable papers include:

"Health and health system effects on poverty: A narrative review of global evidence," 2024, published in Health Policy
"A behavioral decomposition of willingness to pay for health insurance," 2022, published in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
"Use of unclean cooking fuels and visual impairment of older adults in India: A nationally representative population-based study," 2022, published in Environment International
"Prevalence of pain and its treatment among older adults in India: a nationally representative population-based study," 2022, published in Pain
"Awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in adults aged 45 years and over and their spouses in India: A nationally representative cross-sectional study," 2021, published in PLoS Medicine

O'Donnell collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Jürgen Maurer, Aleli D. Kraft, Tom Van Ourti, Sanjay K. Mohanty, and Ashish Kumar Upadhyay. This network of collaborators reflects a multidisciplinary research approach intersecting economics, health policy, and epidemiology.

Best Publications

Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and their Implementation

Owen O'Donnell;Eddy van Doorslaer;Adam Wagstaff;Magnus Lindelow

2868
Citations
Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation

Owen O'Donnell;Eddy Van Doorslaer;Adam Wagstaff;Magnus Lindelow

2432
Citations
Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons.

E van Doorslaer;A Wagstaff;H Bleichrodt;S Calonge

1020
Citations
Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: an analysis of household survey data.

Eddy van Doorslaer;Owen O'Donnell;Ravi P Rannan-Eliya;Aparnaa Somanathan

929
Citations
Equity in the delivery of health care in Europe and the US

Eddy Van Doorslaer;Adam Wagstaff;Hattem Van Der Burg;Terkel Christiansen

833
Citations
Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia

Eddy van Doorslaer;Owen O'Donnell;Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya;Aparnaa Somanathan

790
Citations
Access to health care in developing countries: breaking down demand side barriers

Owen O'Donnell

722
Citations
conindex: Estimation of concentration indices.

Owen O'Donnell;Stephen O'Neill;Tom Van Ourti;Brendan Walsh

475
Citations
Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data

Owen O’Donnell;Eddy van Doorslaer;Wagstaff Wagstaff;Magnus Lindelow

428
Citations
Coping with health‐care costs: implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and poverty

Gabriela Flores;Jaya Krishnakumar;Owen O'Donnell;Eddy van Doorslaer

425
Citations
The Comparison Between Ad Valorem and Specific Taxation under Imperfect Competition

Sofia Delipalla;Michael Keen

422
Citations
Are urban children really healthier? Evidence from 47 developing countries.

Ellen Van de Poel;Owen O’Donnell;Eddy Van Doorslaer

417
Citations
Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities

Teresa Bago d'Uva;Teresa Bago d'Uva;Eddy Van Doorslaer;Eddy Van Doorslaer;Maarten Lindeboom;Owen O'Donnell

413
Citations
Who pays for health care in Asia

Owen O’Donnell;Eddy van Doorslaer;Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya;Aparnaa Somanathan

377
Citations
Long-Term and Spillover Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Income

Pilar. García-Gómez;Hans van. Kippersluis;Owen (Owen A.) O'Donnell;Eddy K. A. van. Doorslaer

302
Citations
Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?

Hans van Kippersluis;Owen O'Donnell;Eddy van Doorslaer

252
Citations
The incidence of public spending on healthcare : comparative evidence from Asia

Owen O'Donnell;Eddy van Doorslaer;Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya;Aparnaa Somanathan

249
Citations
Differential health reporting by education level and its impact on the measurement of health inequalities among older Europeans

Teresa Bago d’Uva;Teresa Bago d’Uva;Owen O’Donnell;Eddy van Doorslaer;Eddy van Doorslaer

248
Citations
ESTIMATING TAX INCIDENCE, MARKET POWER AND MARKET CONDUCT: THE EUROPEAN CIGARETTE INDUSTRY

Sophia Delipalla;Owen O’Donnell

247
Citations
Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies

Jui-fen R. Lu;Gabriel M. Leung;Soonman Kwon;Keith Y.K. Tin

242
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eddy van Doorslaer Erasmus University Rotterdam

Maarten Lindeboom Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Carol Propper Imperial College London

Adam Wagstaff World Bank

Marc A. Koopmanschap Erasmus University Rotterdam

Viroj Tangcharoensathien Ministry of Public Health

Jonathan S. Skinner Dartmouth College

Michael A. Shields Monash University

Nigel Rice University of York

Anthony Scott University of Melbourne

External Links

Personal website of Owen O'Donnell Google Scholar page

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