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.Â
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
Sick or Unemployed? Examining Exits into Sickness Benefits in the Spike of Unemployment Benefit Exhaustion
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