Hannes Schwandt
- Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
- Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Biography
Hannes Schwandt is a health economist and economic demographer who researches the relationship between economic factors and well-being, studying questions such as whether economic shocks or unemployment affect physical health, mortality, and fertility. He also researches the long-term human capital effects stemming from adverse health exposures during the prenatal period or early childhood. He joins SESP from the University of Zurich.
Education
- PhD, Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012
- BA, Economics, University of Munich, 2006
Selected Publications
“Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students’ Human Capital and Economic Outcomes,” with Marika Cabral, Bokyung Kim, Maya Rossin-Slater, and Molly Schnell Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
“The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating,”
with Diane Alexander, Review of Economic Studies 89(6): 2872-2910, 2022
“Changes in the Relationship Between Income and Life Expectancy Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, California, 2015-2021” (lead author), with Janet Currie, Till von Wachter, Jonathan Kowalski, Derek Chapman, and Steven H. Woolf, JAMA 328(4):360-366, 2022
“Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018” (lead author), with Janet Currie, Marlies Bär, James Banks, Paola Bertoli, Aline Bütikofer, Sarah Cattan, Beatrice Zong-Ying Chao, Claudia Costa, Libertad Gonzalez, Veronica Grembi, Kristiina Huttunen, René Karadakic, Lucy Kraftman, Sonya Krutikova, Stefano Lombardi, Peter Redler, Carlos Riumallo-Herl, Ana Rodríguez-González, Kjell Salvanes, Paula Santana, Josselin Thuilliez, Eddy van Doorslaer, Tom Van Ourti, Joachim Winter, Bram Wouterse, and Amelie Wuppermann, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 118(40), 2021
“Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(4), 2018.
“Inequality in Mortality Decreased Among the Young While Increasing for Older Adults, 1990–2010,” with Janet Currie Science 352(6286), 2016.