Publications
Health and Health Behaviors
Renner, A-T., Shaikh, M., & Spitzer, S. 2025. Absence from work and lifetime smoking behavior: Evidence from European maternal leave policies. Journal of Health Economics. Vol. 102: 103004.
Müller, T., Shaikh, M., & Kauer, L. 2025. Retirement and health plan choice. Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 370: 117844.
Spitzer, S., Shaikh, M., & Weber, D. 2022. Older Europeans’ health perception and their adaptive behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 32(2).
Spitzer, S., & Shaikh, M. 2022. Health misperception and healthcare utilisation of older Europeans. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Vol. 22.
Mueller, T., & Shaikh, M. 2018. Your retirement and my health behaviour: Evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. Journal of Health Economics. 57: 45-59.
Policy and Governance
Van Gestel, R., Shaikh, M., Vermijs, F., & Riumallo-Herl, C. 2025. Health programme spillover effects on childhood vaccination in India: a difference-in-differences analysis of the Zinc and Oral Rehydration Salts Programme. British Medical Journal Public Health. Vol. 3, Issue 2.
Schmitt, T., Haarmann, A., & Shaikh, M. 2022. Strengthening health system governance in Germany: looking back, planning ahead. Health Economics, Policy and Law. 18(1):14-31.
Singh, S., Shaikh, M., Hauck, K., & Miraldo, M. 2021. Impacts of introducing and lifting nonpharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 daily growth rate and compliance in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 118(12).
Pharmaceuticals
Shaikh, M., Del Giudice, P., & Kourouklis, D. 2020. Revisiting the Relationship between Price Regulation and Pharmaceutical R&D Investment. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 19: 217–229.
Shaikh, M., & Gandjour, A. 2019. Pharmaceutical expenditure and gross domestic product: Evidence of simultaneous effects using a two-step instrumental variables strategy. Health Economics. 28(1): 101-122.
Health Inequalities
Shaikh, M., Ota, E., & Van Gestel, R. 2023. Childhood immunization and competing mortality risks in Kenya: A longitudinal analysis for multiparous mothers. Journal of Pediatrics, 113590.
Shaikh, M., Tymoszuk, U., Williamon, A., & Miraldo, M. 2021. Socioeconomic inequalities in arts engagement and depression among older adults in the United Kingdom. Public Health. 198: 307-314.
Nicodemo, C., Barzin, S., Cavalli, N., et al. 2020. Measuring geographical disparities in England at the time of COVID-19. British Medical Journal Open. 10(9).
Shaikh, M., Miraldo, M., & Renner, A.T. 2018. Waiting time at health facilities and social class: Evidence from the Indian caste system. PLOS One. 13(10).
Barrenho, E., Miraldo, M., Shaikh, M., & Atun, R. 2017. Vertical and horizontal equity of funding for malaria control. British Medical Journal Global Health. 2(4).
Others
Laliotis, I., Shaikh, M., Stavropoulou, & Kourouklis, D. 2023. Retirement and household expenditure in turbulent times. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 44: 968-989.
Work in Progress
Goetjes, E., Panhuysen, J., Blankart, K., Shaikh, M. The Consequences of Medicine Shortages on Healthcare Utilization and Care Fragmentation. R&R: European Journal of Health Economics
Goetjes, E., Panhuysen, J., Shaikh, M., Blankart, K. Medicine Shortages, Global Dependency, and Competition in Times of a Pandemic. R&R: Healthcare Management Science
Shaikh, M., Miraldo, M., Galizzi, M. Enforcement, Substitution, and the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates.
Shaikh, M., Gestel, RV. Leader identity and Cesarean childbirths: Evidence from random allocations of leaders.