Publications

  • Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco, and Thomas Schober (2024). Literacy and numeracy skills and life-course outcomes: Evidence from PIAAC and linked administrative data. The Australian Journal of Labour Economics.

  • Iusitini, Leon, Gail Pacheco, and Thomas Schober (2024). Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on childhood vaccine uptake with integrated administrative data. SSM - Population Health.

  • Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco, and Thomas Schober (2023). Basic reading and mathematics skills and the labour market outcomes of young people: Evidence from PISA and linked administrative data. Economic Record.

  • Martin Halla, Gerald J Pruckner, and Thomas Schober (2022). Paying adolescents for health screenings works. American Journal of Health Economics. [working paper version]

  • Friedrich Breyer, Normann Lorenz, Gerald J Pruckner, and Thomas Schober (2022). Looking into the black box of ‘medical innovation’: rising health expenditures by illness type. The European Journal of Health Economics.

  • Andrew J Hill, Gerald J Pruckner, and Thomas Schober (2022). Childhood Obesity and Health Care Utilization: Empirical Evidence from Austrian Administrative Data. Childhood Obesity.

  • Thomas Schober and Katrin Zocher (2022). Health-care utilization of refugees: evidence from Austria. International Migration Review 56.3, pp. 810–842.

  • Gerald J Pruckner, Nicole Schneeweis, Thomas Schober, and Martina Zweimüller (2021). Birth order, parental health investment and health in childhood. Journal of Health Economics 76. [working paper version]

  • Alexander Ahammer and Thomas Schober (2020). Explaining variations in health care expenditures – What is the role of practice styles? Health Economics 29.6.

  • Gerald J Pruckner, Thomas Schober, and Katrin Zocher (2020). The company you keep: health behavior among work peers. The European Journal of Health Economics 21, pp. 251–259.

  • Thomas Schober (2020). Effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake. Economics and Human Biology 38. [working paper version]

  • Gerald J Pruckner and Thomas Schober (2018). Hospitals and the generic versus brandname prescription decision in the outpatient sector. Health Economics 27.8, pp. 1264–1283.

  • Alice Sanwald and Thomas Schober (2017). Follow your heart: Survival chances and costs after heart attacks – an instrumental variable approach. Health Services Research 52.1, pp. 16–34. [working paper version]

  • Martin Halla, Gerald J Pruckner, and Thomas Schober (2016). Cost savings of developmental screenings: Evidence from a nationwide program. Journal of Health Economics 49, pp. 120–135. [working paper version]

  • Thomas Schober and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (2011). Gender wage inequality and economic growth: Is there really a puzzle? – A comment. World Development 39.8, pp. 1476–1484.

Working papers

  • Gerald J Pruckner, and Thomas Schober (2025). Evaluating hospital performance. Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Working Paper 2503

  • Simon Baumgartner, Alex Stomper, Thomas Schober, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (2022). Banking on Snow: Bank Capital, Risk, and Employment. Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Working Paper 2210

  • Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Martin Halla, Alexandra Posekany, Gerald J. Pruckner, Thomas Schober, “The Quantity and Quality of Children: A Semi-Parametric Bayesian IV Approach”, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Working Paper 1403

Research reports

  • Iusitini, Leon, Gail Pacheco, and Thomas Schober (2023). Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on childhood vaccine uptake with integrated administrative data. NZ Work Research Institute, Auckland, NZ.

  • Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco, and Thomas Schober (2022). Literacy and numeracy skills and life-course outcomes: Evidence from PIAAC and linked administrative data. NZ Work Research Institute, Auckland, NZ.

  • Lisa Meehan, Gail Pacheco, and Thomas Schober (2022). Reading and mathematics skills and the life-course outcomes of young people in NZ: Evidence from PISA and linked administrative data. NZ Work Research Institute, Auckland, NZ.

  • Johann Bacher, Koblbauer Christina, Lankmayer Thomas, Pruckner Gerald, Rigler Sandra, Schober Thomas , Tamesberger Dennis (2016). “Psychische und physische Gesundheitsbeeinträchtigungen im Jugendalter”, Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Soziales und Konsumentenschutz (BMASK).

  • Martin Halla, Gerald J. Pruckner, Thomas Schober (2016) Programmevaluierung: Gesundheits-Check Junior, Sozialversicherungsantstalt der gewerblichen Wirtschaft.

  • Martin Halla, Gerald J. Pruckner, Thomas Schober (2013). Evaluierung des Vorsorgeprogramms Selbständig Gesund, Sozialversicherungsanstalt der gewerblichen Wirtschaft.

  • Thomas Schober, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (2011). Ältere Arbeitnehmer, gesundheitliche Einschränkungen und Übergänge in den Ruhestand, Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Soziales und Konsumentenschutz (BMASK).

Non-refereed publications

  • Gail Pacheco, Lisa Meehan, and Thomas Schober (2023). Curriculum changes must tackle the lifelong consequences of NZ’s alarming literacy and numeracy declines. The Conversation, Auckland, NZ.

  • Gerald J Pruckner and Thomas Schober (2017). Ökonomische Anreize für einen gesunden Lebensstil – wissenschaftlicher Mythos oder ernsthafte Reformoption? Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspolitik 02/2017.

  • Gerald J Pruckner and Thomas Schober (2015). Kosten und Nutzen des Gesundheitssystems – (Un-)befriedigende Antworten aus der Gesundheitsökonomie? Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspolitik 02/2015.

  • Mario Schnalzenberger, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, and Thomas Schober (2011). Kündigung unter Strafe – Beschäftigungsförderung für Ältere in Österreich. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 37.3, pp. 461–470.

  • René Böheim and Thomas Schober (2010). Instrumente der Arbeitsmarktförderung: Übersicht der Maßnahmen, Beschreibung der Effekte. Amt der Salzburger Landesregierung, Landesamtsdirektion.