Christiern Rose

Dr. Christiern Rose is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, within the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law. He completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Bristol in 2016, followed by a two-year postdoctoral position at the Toulouse School of Economics. Rose joined the University of Queensland in 2017. His primary field is applied microeconometrics, with particular interests in networks, spillover and peer effects, high-dimensional econometrics, the economics of illicit drugs, and empirical work in health economics.

Rose has authored numerous publications in leading journals. Key works include 'Innovation diffusion among coworkers: evidence from senior doctors' in Management Science (2025, with Barrenho, Gautier, Miraldo, Propper), 'Housing insecurity, financial hardship and mental health' in Economics and Human Biology (2025, with Ludlow, Fooken, Tang), 'Addressing loneliness through a scalable neighbourhood connection campaign: an evaluation of Neighbour Day using an Australian population-based control and causal propensity score-based approaches' in Journal of Environmental Psychology (2025, with Beilby, Spinks, Cruwys), 'Out-of-pocket expenditure, need, utilisation, and private health insurance in the Australian healthcare system' in International Journal of Health Economics and Management (2023, with Ludlow, Fooken, Tang), 'The relationship between physical activity, cognitive function and health care use: a mediation analysis' in Social Science & Medicine (2023, with Lenzen, Gannon, Norton), 'The effect of housing wealth on older adults’ health care utilization: evidence from fluctuations in the U.S. housing market' in Journal of Health Economics (2023, with Tran, Gannon), 'A dynamic microeconomic analysis of the impact of physical activity on cognition among older people' in Economics and Human Biology (2020, with Lenzen, Gannon), and 'Identification of peer effects through social networks using variance restrictions' in The Econometrics Journal (2017). He has supervised PhD students as principal and associate advisor on topics including econometric models of peer effects, applied health economics, economics of ageing, and administrative data methodologies. Rose has received funding for projects such as a 2024-2026 Perinatal Family Mental Health Registry (Queensland Mental Health Commission), 2022-2026 ARC Discovery Project on macroeconomic fluctuations with unobserved networks, 2023 modelling public wages expenses (Queensland Treasury Corporation), and health economics impact analysis for developmental disabilities (Autism CRC).

Professional Email: christiern.rose@uq.edu.au