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Martin Filko I
am a PhD student in behavioral decision science at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Together
with my supervisor Han Bleichrodt and other colleagues of
our Decision and Uncertainty workgroup, I am interested in how people make
choices, especially about their health. Contact
Information Martin
Filko Room
W L 03 121 3000
DR [maps
of the campus and Rotterdam] [how
to get to the Woudestein campus] filko [an e-mail at] bmg [dot] eur [dot] nl mfilko [an account at] skype + + Research
Interests Decision under uncertainty, health economics, behavioral
economics.
I
am involved in a research project “Valuation of Health”. As a part of this
project, we looked at whether the generalized quality-adjusted life-years
(QALY) model holds descriptively if many of the biases caused by violations of
expected utility were corrected. We also assessed descriptive accuracy of more general decision models in health. At the moment, I work on various
issues, for example reference points in health and money, case-based decision theory, incentive-compatible assessment of human visual attractiveness, regret theory and equity
in health. Working
papers New and robust tests of QALYs when health varies over time (forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics, with Han Bleichrodt) This paper performs axiomatic tests of the quality-adjusted life-years (QALY) model when health varies over time. Our tests do not require confounding assumptions and are robust against violations of expected utility. We tested two conditions: utility independence which ensures that health states occurring at different points in time can be considered separately and generalized marginality, which is a strengthening of utility independence that implies the QALY model. Our results support both utility independence and generalized marginality and, therefore, they provide support for the QALY model. Our results suggest that previously observed violations of the QALY model may have been caused by violations of expected utility and not by violations of the QALY model. Equity in Health Care Finance in Slovakia - the Impact of the Reform (with Štefan Kišš and Xander Koolman ) Health care reform in Slovakia in 2003-2004 constitutes a unique natural experiment. We analyze the impact of the reform on the equity of health care finance using household budget survey data after adjusting for methodology changes using post stratification weights in quota samples. We find that reform did have a significant impact on OOP as households spent increasing proportion of their income on health. We also observe pronounced distributional impact. The regressivity of OOP increased throughout the examined period while slight progressivity of mandatory health insurance increased, although the latter effect was not statistically significant. The most significant change occurred between 2003 and 2004, when major part of the reform took place. Education MSc Health Economics, MSc (eq.) International Economic
Relations, MA
Psychology, Teaching GW4148ma
Advanced Economic Evaluation, with Maiwenn Al,
Arthur Attema, Han Bleichrodt
and Elly Stolk [Spring
2007, 2008] GW4168ma
Economics of Health and Health Care, with Eddy van Doorslaer
and Xander Koolman [Fall
2006, 2007] Miscellaneous July 21 - July 28, 2007: Sailing off the Adriatic coast June 23 - July 11, 2007: Fellowship at the Summer Institute in Informed Patient Choice at Dartmouth May 28 - June 7, 2006: Fellowship at the Summer Institute on Economics and Psychology at Chiemsee 
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