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Pieter Vanhuysse is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily spans social sciences and health professions, with notable contributions across several subfields including general health professions, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, and safety research.

Their work addresses a range of topics, with frequent focus on global health care issues, social policy and reform studies, experimental behavioral economics studies, taxation and compliance studies, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, youth education and societal dynamics, and gender, labor, and family dynamics.

Vanhuysse's recent publications include:

  • Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Decomposing the roles of age and socio-economic status shows that European tax-and-benefit systems primarily redistribute across age groups (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Taxing reproduction: the full transfer cost of rearing children in Europe (2023, Royal Society Open Science)

Among their frequent co-authors are Markus Tepe, Róbert Iván Gál, Márton Medgyesi, Maximilian Lutz, and Adam Lampert. Vanhuysse's collaborative work spans various domains within social sciences and health-related fields.

The main venues where they have published often include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • PLoS ONE
  • Political Research Quarterly
  • Communications Medicine
  • Social Policy and Administration

Best Publications

  • Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies

    Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Post-Communist Welfare Pathways: Theorizing Social Policy Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe

    Alfio Cerami;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Active Ageing Index 2012 Concept, Methodology and Final Results

    Asghar Zaidi;Katrin Gasior;Maria M. Hofmarcher;Orsolya Lelkes

  • Are Aging OECD Welfare States on the Path to Gerontocracy?: Evidence from 18 Democracies, 1980-2002

    Markus Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Elderly bias, new social risks and social spending: change and timing in eight programmes across four worlds of welfare, 1980-2003

    Markus Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Post-Communist Welfare Pathways

    Alfio Cerami;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Workers without Power: Agency, Legacies, and Labour Decline in East European Varieties of Capitalism

    Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Divide and pacify

    Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Spheres of Justice within Schools: Reflections and Evidence on the Distribution of Educational Goods

    Clara Sabbagh;Nura Resh;Michal Mor;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Parties, Unions and Activation Strategies: The Context‐Dependent Politics of Active Labour Market Policy Spending

    Markus Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Betwixt and between the market and the state: Israeli students’ welfare attitudes in comparative perspective

    Clara Sabbagh;Lawrence Alfred Powell;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Exploring Attitudes Towards the Welfare State: Students' Views in Eight Democracies

    Clara Sabbagh;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Power, Order and the Politics of Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe

    Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Cops for hire? The political economy of police employment in the German states

    Markus Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Educational business cycles The political economy of teacher hiring across German states, 1992-2004

    Markus Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Pro-Elderly Welfare States within Child-Oriented Societies

    Robert Iván Gál;Pieter Vanhuysse;Lili Vargha

  • Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies: A Cross-national Comparison of 29 OECD Countries

    Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Intergenerational Justice Perceptions and the Role of Welfare Regimes A Comparative Analysis of University Students

    Clara Sabbagh;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Review of Raymond Boudon, The Origin of Values: Essays in the Sociology and Philosophy of Beliefs

    Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Who Cuts Back and When? The Politics of Delays in Social Expenditure Cutbacks, 1980–2005

    Markus Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Are future bureaucrats more prosocial

    Markus Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Are Aging OECD Welfare States on the Path to the Politics of Gerontocracy? Evidence from 18 Democracies, 1980-2002

    Markus S. Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Introduction: Social Policy Pathways, Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Alfio Cerami;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • 1 Mapping the field: comparative generational politics and policies in ageing democracies

    Achim Goerres;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Accelerating Smaller Cutbacks to Delay Larger Ones?: The Politics of Timing and Alarm Bells in OECD Pension Generosity Retrenchment

    Markus Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Democracy, accountability and representation

    Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Review Article: The New Political Economy of Skill Formation

    Pieter Vanhuysse

  • A Vote at the Opera? The Political Economy of Public Theatres and Orchestras in the German States

    Markus S. Tepe;Pieter Vanhuysse

  • Review of James Heckman, Giving Kids a Fair Chance: A Strategy that Works

    Pieter Vanhuysse

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Meier
Stephan Meier Columbia University
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Bruno S. Frey
Bruno S. Frey University of Basel

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