Writing and talks
Essays on health and behavioural economics, plus recorded talks and webinars.
Occasional writing, mostly explaining one idea at a time to people who are not economists.
Essays
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Essay
Why 99% does not feel like 100%
Removing the last one percent of a risk is worth far more to people than removing a middling one percent, and standard expected-utility reasoning cannot account for the difference. What that does to health decisions, and to the policies built on them.
Talks
I speak on discrete choice experiments, eye tracking in preference research, and the evaluation of vaccine mandates, to academic and to policy audiences. For invitations, write to mesfin.genie@newcastle.edu.au.