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Participating researchers:
Rossella De Sabbata
ESSGN doctoral candidate
Email: rosselladesabbata@gmail.com
Website: https://rosselladesabbata.github.io/
Rossella De Sabbata is a PhD student in Economics at the chair of Stephanie von Hinke and Paul Hufe at the University of Bristol. She has a background in Economics. She completed her undergraduate studies at Universita’ degli Studi di Padova, after spending her Erasmus semester at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and her graduate studies at Bocconi University. Before joining the ESSGN in October 2023, she worked as a research assistant at LEAP, at the Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern, and lastly at the University of Zurich. Rossella’ s interests broadly lie in empirical microeconomics and in investigating the intricate interplay between one’s choices, endowments, and environments. She is especially motivated to research the role and formation of health and well-being over the life course, and to quantify the inequality in life chances.
Sergio Ordonez
ESSGN doctoral candidate
Sergio Ordonez is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD candidate in Economics and Population Health Sciences at the University of Bristol. As an affiliate member at the European Social Science Genetics Network, he is interested on how children’s genetic predisposition to education moderates the relationship between schooling environments and children’s later life outcomes. He integrates perspectives from education economics, impact evaluation and applied econometrics to understand decision-making processes. His aim is enhancing the efficacy of development programs. Sergio’s research experience also delves into universal health coverage and administrative law, with broad applications in both the health sector and the public domain.
Stephanie von Hinke
Professor of Economics
Email: S.vonHinke@bristol.ac.uk
Website: http://www.stephanievonhinke.com/
Stephanie von Hinke is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. Her research builds on the biomedical as well as social sciences. She investigates the importance of genetics, early life environments, parental investments, and government policy in explaining individuals’ health and well-being over the life course. She is the PI on a 5-year European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2020-2025) that aims to incorporate genetic data into social science research and study the importance of the nature-nurture interplay in the developmental origins of health and disease. She was a Co-PI on a 3-year NORFACE DIAL award (2018-2021; joint with Hans van Kippersluis, Pietro Biroli and Niels Rietveld). She was previously a Professor of Health Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam (part-time; 2018-2022). She also held an MRC Early Career Fellowship in the Economics of Health (2011-2014) at the University of York, and an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Imperial College London (2009-2011). She is a Research Fellow at Tinbergen Institute, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and IZA.
Paul Hufe
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Email: paul.hufe@bristol.ac.uk
Website: https://www.paulhufe.net/
Paul is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Bristol. He is also affiliated with IZA, CESifo, IFS, and HCEO. His research interests lie at the intersection of public, labor, and normative economics. He holds a Ph.D. from LMU (University of Munich) and has been visiting Cornell University, Princeton University, and FAIR at NHH Bergen.
Ruijun Hou
Affiliated doctoral candidate
Email: ruijun.hou@bristol.ac.uk
Ruijun Hou is a fourth-year PhD student in Economics at the University of Bristol. Her research mainly focuses on topics in Applied Microeconomics and Health economics. She is currently working on the long-term effect of early life experience on health and economic outcomes.
Nicolai Vitt
Research Associate
Email: nicolai.vitt@bristol.ac.uk
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nicolaivitt/
Nicolai Vitt is a Research Associate at the University of Bristol’s School of Economics. He received his PhD in Economics at the University of Edinburgh in 2021. His research is in applied microeconometrics and behavioural economics, with a strong interest in health economics and social science genetics.
Eleanor Sanderson
Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Eleanor Sanderson is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics at University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the use of genetic variation for causal inference in epidemiology and social science research. She is particularly interested in the estimation of relationships between multiple traits and how genetics can be used to estimate lifecourse effects. She is PI of a MRC New Investigator grant (2024 – 2027).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 programme under grant agreement number 101073237
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