Peer-Reviewed Publications

Published work across health behaviours, governance, pharmaceutical economics, and health inequalities, followed by current work in progress.

Health & Health Behaviours

  • 2025Renner, A-T., Shaikh, M., & Spitzer, S. Absence from work and lifetime smoking behavior: evidence from European maternal leave policies. Journal of Health Economics, 102: 103004.
  • 2025Müller, T., Shaikh, M., & Kauer, L. Retirement and health plan choice. Social Science & Medicine, 370: 117844.
  • 2022Spitzer, S., Shaikh, M., & Weber, D. Older Europeans' health perception and their adaptive behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Public Health, 32(2).
  • 2022Spitzer, S., & Shaikh, M. Health misperception and healthcare utilisation of older Europeans. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 22.
  • 2018Mueller, T., & Shaikh, M. Your retirement and my health behaviour: evidence on retirement externalities from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. Journal of Health Economics, 57: 45–59.

Policy & Governance

  • 2021Singh, S., Shaikh, M., Hauck, K., & Miraldo, M. 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 of the United States (PNAS), 118(12).
  • 2022Schmitt, T., Haarmann, A., & Shaikh, M. Strengthening health system governance in Germany: looking back, planning ahead. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 18(1): 14–31.
  • 2025Van Gestel, R., Shaikh, M., Vermijs, F., & Riumallo-Herl, C. Health programme spillover effects on childhood vaccination in India: a difference-in-differences analysis of the Zinc and Oral Rehydration Salts Programme. BMJ Public Health, 3(2).

Pharmaceuticals

  • ForthcomingGoetjes, E., Panhuysen, J., Blankart, K., & Shaikh, M. The consequences of medicine shortages on healthcare utilization and care fragmentation. European Journal of Health Economics.
  • 2020Shaikh, M., Del Giudice, P., & Kourouklis, D. Revisiting the relationship between price regulation and pharmaceutical R&D investment. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 19: 217–229.
  • 2019Shaikh, M., & Gandjour, A. 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

  • 2023Shaikh, M., Ota, E., & Van Gestel, R. Childhood immunization and competing mortality risks in Kenya: a longitudinal analysis for multiparous mothers. Journal of Pediatrics, 113590.
  • 2021Shaikh, M., Tymoszuk, U., Williamon, A., & Miraldo, M. Socioeconomic inequalities in arts engagement and depression among older adults in the United Kingdom. Public Health, 198: 307–314.
  • 2020Nicodemo, C., Barzin, S., Cavalli, N., et al. Measuring geographical disparities in England at the time of COVID-19. BMJ Open, 10(9).
  • 2018Shaikh, M., Miraldo, M., & Renner, A-T. Waiting time at health facilities and social class: evidence from the Indian caste system. PLOS ONE, 13(10).
  • 2017Barrenho, E., Miraldo, M., Shaikh, M., & Atun, R. Vertical and horizontal equity of funding for malaria control. BMJ Global Health, 2(4).

Other

  • 2023Laliotis, I., Shaikh, M., Stavropoulou, C., & Kourouklis, D. Retirement and household expenditure in turbulent times. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 44: 968–989.

Work in Progress

  • R&RGoetjes, E., Panhuysen, J., Shaikh, M., & Blankart, K. Medicine shortages, global dependency, and competition in times of a pandemic. Healthcare Management Science.
  • WPShaikh, M., Miraldo, M., & Galizzi, M. Enforcement, substitution, and the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
  • WPShaikh, M., & Van Gestel, R. Leader identity and Cesarean childbirths: evidence from random allocations of leaders.