Roger Prudon

You can contact me at: r.e.k.prudon@vu.nl

I am a PhD-student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Pierre Koning and Dr. Paul Muller. I will join the department of economics at Lancaster University (UK) as a lecturer (assistant professor) in the fall of 2023.

In my job market paper titled "Is delayed mental health treatment detrimental to employment?" I estimate the causal impact of increasing waiting times for mental health treatment on labor market status. I find large and significant negative effects. A two-month increase in waiting time (1 SD) decreases the probability to be employed by 4 p.p. and increases the probability to receive disability benefits by 2 p.p.. Vulnerable groups with a low education level or migration background are especially affected as the impact of waiting time is larger and their average waiting time is longer.

Research projects

Job market paper

Joint with Pierre Koning and Paul Muller. 

Journal of Health Economics, Volume 82, March 2022

SBE-Tinbergen best PhD publication award

Joint with Pierre Koning and Paul Muller.

IZA Discussion paper series, No. 15173, March 2022

Joint with Pierre Koning.

News

February 2023: Excited to announce that I will be joining the department of economics at Lancaster University as a lecturer in September

January 2023: Honored to have been awarded the 2021/2022 SBE-Tinbergen best PhD publication award for our paper in the Journal of Health Economics

November 2022: My job market paper on the impact of waiting times for mental health treatment on employment is now available online

June 2022: Policy discussion article published in ESB (in Dutch) on the difference in DI risk between permanent and temporary contracts