At the Competence-Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation (CC-ME) we advise and support EU policy making through ex-post causal evaluation and data-driven microeconomic analysis.

The CC-ME hosts a Microeconometric Seminar Series to promote discussions with external researchers from academia and other institutions.

Our Seminar Series is intended to disseminate advanced research methodologies and topics in the field of microeconomic evaluation. To further disseminate the benefits of our Series across the JRC, we post a summary of the presented papers together with the presenters' views and opinions on their research and the future of the field of Applied Economics.

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Q: What attracted you to research the topics in your paper?

A: I study health care use of the elderly, with a particular focus on long-term care. In my research, I combine aim to combine insight in the policy context and the medical context with my knowledge of the data and economic/econometric theory. I’m interested in understanding how the challenges in healthcare are formulated and reformulated, how the decisions are made and by whom and how science can contribute to each of these aspects.

Q: Where is the research area where your paper fits moving?

A: It’s still moving towards more use of natural and field experiments.

Q: What, in your opinion, will the next breakthrough in Applied Economics be?

A: I hope that we will be able to make better use of combinations of types of data in the coming years. Furthermore, I hope that we will be better able to appreciate other aspects of validity on top of dealing with selection bias. Applied microeconometrics has generated many important insights on causal effects, which is good, but other aspects of validity have been getting less attention in the process.