The NWO (Dutch Research Council) in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) has awarded XS grants to Stefan Lipman and Anna Nieboer of Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. They receive a maximum of 50,000 euro each, to execute their respective research projects.
About the NWO Open Competition SSH XS grants
The NWO SSH has three different funding programmes in the Open Competition. The XS grants are for ideas that hold great promise and are available for projects with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro. To enable curiosity-driven, innovative research. The research projects are ground-breaking and high risk-high gain. Applicants assess each other’s proposal through anonymous peer review. The Call for proposals of 2026 has 3 rounds in total.
Project of Stefan Lipman | Listening to Children: Innovative Approaches to Measure and Value Their Wellbeing for Policy
Healthcare decisions often focus on health outcomes like symptom reduction, but for children, interventions also affect wellbeing, including independence and school participation. Children’s wellbeing outcomes can be measured with Well-Y, the only such measure available in Dutch. This innovative project develops the first value set for Well-Y, converting responses into a single score for use in economic evaluations that inform reimbursement policy decisions. We elicit preferences for different wellbeing domains using child-friendly methods and compare children’s and adults’ prioritization of wellbeing domains. Using our child-centered value set policymakers can better incorporate children’s perspectives in reimbursement decision-making, rather than only adults’.
Project of Anna Nieboer | Mechanisms behind ÃÀÅ®¸£ÀûµçÓ°ÔºÎçÒ¹al Spillovers in Survival Across Generations (MESSAGe)
ÃÀÅ®¸£ÀûµçÓ°ÔºÎçÒ¹ is a determinant of survival, yet it remains unclear whether its benefits spill over upward across generations. Drawing on administrative and survey data, this project investigates whether children’s higher education causally enhances their parents’ longevity. It combines two complementary studies: the first estimates effects on cause-specific mortality, while the second identifies underlying mechanisms, including health behaviours and social support. To strengthen causal inference, the analysis exploits exogenous variation in children’s education induced by compulsory schooling reforms. By doing so, the project provides the first causal evidence on intergenerational spillovers in survival and identifies pathways through which these spillovers arise.
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