Dr Matthew Robson
Lecturer

Profile

Biography

Matthew Robson is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of York. His research focuses on inequality, social preferences, and distributive justice, and draws upon experimental, health and welfare economics. He designs experiments to estimate individual preferences and identify social value judgements, which can be used to inform public policy, and conducts applied econometric research on inequality and multidimensional poverty, in health and development.

Research

Overview

Publications

Selected publications

• Key Publications

  • Allanson & Robson, 2026, Experimental Estimation of Preferences on Population Health Ethics, Social Choice and Welfare
    
  • Robson, O’Donnell & Van Ourti, 2025, Responsibility-Sensitive Welfare Weights for Health, Journal of Health Economics
    
  • Robson, O’Donnell & Van Ourti, 2024, Aversion to Health Inequality – Pure, Income-Related and Income-Caused, Journal of Health Economics
    
  • Robson, Vollmer, Dogan & Grede, 2024, Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN Programme in Turkey, World Development
    
  • Robson, 2021, Inequality aversion, self-interest and social connectedness, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
    
  • Robson, Asaria, Cookson, Tsuchiya & Ali, 2017, Eliciting the level of health inequality aversion in England, Health Economics

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Clinical Decision Analysis (MSc Health Economics)