Best PhD Paper Award
The Best PhD Paper Award honors the student with the most promising PhD paper presented at the occasion of the bi-annual sggö conference. The award is announced during the conference and endowed with CHF 1’000.
Eligibility
Applicants must be PhD students enrolled at a Swiss University at the time of the conference. Sole authorship will be given priority.
Application
The application includes a cover letter explaining the relevance of the paper and a PDF copy of the paper. Submissions must be sent electronically (deadline and contact details will be provided in advance of the next conference).
Criteria
The Awards Committee will select the paper that will likely make the greatest contribution to health economics. The paper’s contributions may be theoretical, empirical, or methodological.
Winner 2025
Garyn Tan, University of Zurich: "The Labour Market Effects of Insurance for Disability Supports: Evidence from the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia".
The paper studies the effects of funding for disability-related supports on labour market outcomes. The main result of the analysis is that the reform on average increased affected participants’ total annual earnings by 15.7% and employment by 10.6% in the four years following exposure. The effects are driven by previously employed workers, who have relatively high labour force attachment. The reform also led to reduced claiming of disability benefits for work incapacity. Whereas studies on income-replacement schemes for people with disability find a trade-off between disability benefits and labour supply, my findings suggest that funding for disability supports can instead increase earnings and employment.