During the past ten years, up to the present, I have accumulated extensive academic experience. I most recently held the position of Visiting Professor (W3) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Prior to this, I was appointed Associate Professor, and earlier Assistant Professor (Lecturer), at the University of East Anglia, among other roles. From 2013 to 2019, I held full-time research positions at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex, initially as a Postdoctoral Researcher and subsequently as a tenured Research Fellow. During my time at the University of East Anglia, I also served as the Director of Postgraduate (MSc in Health Economics programs) and Undergraduate studies in health economics.
I am also a Research Affiliate at HEDG, University of York, a Research Associate at ISER (University of Essex), a GLO Fellow, and a Research Fellow at the RWI Research Network.
My research covers a range of topics relevant to the health production function and human capital theory, the social and economic determinants of health, health care demand, utilization of health services and health care costs, the role of energy deprivation on health/wellbeing outcomes, the economics of obesity, the economics of disability, the economics of prevention, the economics of risky behaviors, and socioeconomic inequalities in health and healthcare. I am also interested in the survey measurement of health and the implications of measurement error (in health measures) for the existing (health and labour) economics research.
On these topics, I have published papers in the Journal of Health Economics (4 papers), Health Economics (6 papers), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Energy Economics (3 papers), Economics Letters, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Science & Medicine (2 papers), Economics & Human Biology (7 papers), Empirical Economics, and in high impact interdisciplinary journals (PLOS One and Scientific Reports).
I have been awarded the "Distinguished Author Award" by Health Economics (Wiley) in 2022.
Apostolos Davillas joined IZA in November 2020.
