University of Basel

Faculty of
Business and Economics

Armando N. Meier

Prof. Dr. Armando N. Meier


Professor (Health Economics / Gesundheitsökonomie)

Office

Peter Merian-Weg 6
4052 Basel
Schweiz

Contact
armando.meier@unibas.ch
+41 61 207 33 33
Armando N. Meier

Dr. Armando N. Meier is a Professor of Health Economics. His main research and teaching activities are in health economics, with strong connections to behavioral, labor, and education economics.

His work has been published in journals such as Nature, Science, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal 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.

Selected Publications

Getik, D. and Meier, A.N. (2025) “The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender On Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy [Preprint], (forthcoming). Available at: 10.1257/pol.20230251.   
Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A.N., Pope, D. and Schneider, F.H. (2023) “Motivating vaccination with financial incentives”, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(12), pp. 1099–1101. Available at: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.07.003.   
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(7944), pp. 526–533. Available at: 10.1038/s41586-022-05512-4.   
Getik, D. and Meier, A.N. (2022) “Peer gender and mental health”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 197, pp. 643–659. Available at: 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.03.014.   
Meier, A.N. (2022) “Emotions and Risk Attitudes†”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(3), pp. 527–558. Available at: 10.1257/app.20200164.   
Meier, A.N., Odermatt, R. and Stutzer, A. (2021) “Tobacco sales prohibition and teen smoking”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 188, pp. 998–1014. Available at: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.06.002.   edoc | Open Access
Andersson, O., Campos-Mercade, P., Meier, A.N. and Wengström, E. (2021) “Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces willingness to socially distance”, Journal of Health Economics, 80, p. 102530. Available at: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102530.   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
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
Stutzer, A., Baltensperger, M. and Meier, A.N. (2019) “Overstrained citizens? The number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy”, European Journal of Political Economy, 59, pp. 483–500. Available at: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2019.05.008.   edoc | Open Access
Meier, A.N., Schmid, L. and Stutzer, A. (2019) “Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo”, European Economic Review, 119, pp. 434–451. Available at: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.07.014.   edoc
Stutzer, A. and Meier, A.N. (2016) “Limited Self-control, Obesity, and the Loss of Happiness”, Health Economics, 25(11), pp. 1409–1424. Available at: 10.1002/hec.3227.   edoc | Open Access
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