Research

Key Publications

Experimental Estimation of Preferences on Population Health Ethics
Allanson & Robson, 2026, Social Choice and Welfare | Working paper | Repository

Responsibility-Sensitive Welfare Weights for Health
Robson, O’Donnell & Van Ourti, 2025, Journal of Health Economics | Working paper | Repository

Aversion to Health Inequality – Pure, Income-Related and Income-Caused
Robson, O’Donnell & Van Ourti, 2024, Journal of Health Economics | Working paper | Repository

Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN Programme in Turkey
Robson, Vollmer, Dogan & Grede, 2024, World Development | Working paper | Repository

Inequality aversion, self-interest and social connectedness
Robson, 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | Working paper | Repository

Eliciting the level of health inequality aversion in England
Robson, Asaria, Cookson, Tsuchiya & Ali, 2017, Health Economics

Work-in-Progress

Health Inequality Aversion and Rank-Dependent Income Weights in the Netherlands
Robson, Harlass & Brück, 2026 | Working paper | Policy App

A Fair Innings: Equality, Priority, or Thresholds?
Robson, O’Donnell, Schokkaert & Van Ourti

Aversion to Inequality in What? A Social Choice Experiment
Robson, O’Donnell & Van Ourti

Estimating Individual Preferences Over Lifetime Health and Income
Robson, Schokkaert, Decancq & Fleurbaey

Are public preferences over health distributions guided by principles of distributive justice?’
Tromm, Reckers-Droog & Robson, 2026 | Under Review

Aversion to Health Inequality in Thailand; How much do policy makers and the public care?
Sarin, Poonsiri, Karunayawong, Boonma, Korakot, Robson, Cookson, Teerawattananon & Isaranuwatcha, 2026 | Under Review

All Publications

Experimental Estimation of Preferences on Population Health Ethics
Allanson & Robson, 2026, Social Choice and Welfare | Working paper | Repository

The inequality-adjusted incremental cost-effectiveness ratio
Cookson, Kaur, Skarda, Venkatesh, Doran, Robson, Norheim, O’Donnell, & Paulden, 2026, Value in Health

Responsibility-Sensitive Welfare Weights for Health
Robson, O’Donnell & Van Ourti, 2025, Journal of Health Economics | Working paper | Repository

Do social preferences explain health inequality aversion?
Robson, Doran, O’Donnell & Van Ourti, 2025, Journal of Economic Inequality | Repository

Explaining Subjective Social Status and Health: Beyond Education, Occupation and Income
Robson, Chen & Olsen, 2025, Social Science and Medicine

Aversion to Health Inequality – Pure, Income-Related and Income-Caused
Robson, O’Donnell & Van Ourti, 2024, Journal of Health Economics | Working paper | Repository

Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN Programme in Turkey
Robson, Vollmer, Dogan & Grede, 2024, World Development | Working paper | Repository

Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty: Correlations, Mismatches and Joint Distributions
Evans, Nogales & Robson, 2023, Journal of Development Studies | Working paper

On international household survey data availability for assessing pre-pandemic monetary and multidimensional poverty in developing countries
Alkire & Robson, 2022, Development Studies Research | Working paper

Inequality aversion, self-interest and social connectedness
Robson, 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | Working paper | Repository

Estimating the Equity Impacts of the Smoking Ban in England on Cotinine Levels: A Regression Discontinuity Design
Robson, Lord & Doran, 2021, BMJ: Open

Equity-informative methods of health services research
Cookson, Robson, Skarda & Doran, 2021, Journal of Health Organization and Management

Eliciting the level of health inequality aversion in England
Robson, Asaria, Cookson, Tsuchiya & Ali, 2017, Health Economics

Unpublished Manuscripts

Socioeconomic Health Inequalities: Differences Between and Within Individuals
Parra-Mujica, Robson & Cookson, 2021, HEDG Working Papers

Estimating and Decomposing Conditional Average Treatment Effects: The Smoking Ban in England
Robson, Doran & Cookson, 2019, HEDG Working Papers | Code

Giving to Varying Numbers of Others
Robson & Bone, 2018, DERS Discussion Paper

Inequality Aversion and Self-Interest: An Experimental Approach
Robson, 2018, Doctoral Thesis