Prof. Dr. Armando N. Meier


Professor (Health Economics / Gesundheitsökonomie)

Office

Peter Merian-Weg 6
4052 Basel
Schweiz

Armando Meier is a Professor of Health Economics. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of Basel, receiving the faculty prize for the best dissertation after research stays at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University. He then was a Principal Researcher at the University of Chicago and a Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne before returning to Basel. He is currently also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics.

The main research and teaching activities of Armando Meier are in health economics, with strong connections to behavioral, public, and labor economics. His work has been published in journals such as Nature, Science, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and the European Economic Review.

Selected Publications

Schneider, F.H., Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, S., Pope, D., Wengström, E. and Meier, A.N. (2023) “Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences”, Nature, 613, pp. 526–533. Available at: 10.1038/s41586-022-05512-4.   
Meier, A.N. (2022) “Emotions and Risk Attitudes”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(3), pp. 527–558. Available at: 10.1257/app.20200164.   
Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A.N., Schneider, F.H., Meier, S., Pope, D. and Wengström, E. (2021) “Monetary incentives increase COVID-19 vaccinations”, Science, 374(6569), pp. 879–882. Available at: 10.1126/science.abm0475.   edoc | Open Access
Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A.N., Schneider, F.H. and Wengström, E. (2021) “Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic”, Journal of Public Economics, 195, p. 104367. Available at: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104367.   edoc | Open Access