Rate My Professor Johannes Kunz

Johannes Kunz is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Health Economics within Monash Business School at Monash University, located in Caulfield. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich in 2016, following studies in Economics at the University of Konstanz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and the National University of Singapore. During his doctoral research, he visited the University of Melbourne in 2014 and 2016. Kunz's academic career includes serving as a research affiliate at the Department of Economics, University of Zurich. He is also a board member of the Asian & Australasian Society of Labour Economics and co-organiser of the Australasian Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics. Additionally, he is co-founder and data scientist consultant at Data2Conclusion.

His research specializations lie in applied micro-econometrics, with applications to labour and health economics. Specific interests encompass applied microeconomics, econometrics, labour economics, health behaviour, and health economics. Kunz has contributed to several research projects, including 'Towards a holistic priority setting approach for chronic disease management to tackle loneliness and social isolation in Australia' (2023-2028), 'Embedding modular data assets in MADIP' (2023-2024), 'Asian Development Outlook 2023: Asia's preparedness and Response to Health Emergencies' (2023), 'Department of Health Mental Health Modelling' (2022), and 'Advancing machine-learning methods to benchmark health care expenditure profiles and technology adoption to inform health care policy and practice' (2020-2021). His expertise aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health and Well-being), 10 (Reduced Inequalities), and 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions). Key publications include 'Communication barriers and infant health: the intergenerational effect of randomly allocating refugees across language regions' (Auer & Kunz, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025), 'Assessing the quality of public services: for-profits, chains, and concentration in the hospital market' (Kunz, Propper, Staub & Winkelmann, Health Economics, 2024), 'Does telemedicine technology affect prescribing quality in primary care? The case of antibiotics' (Avdic, Kunz, Méndez & Wiśniewska, Journal of Health Economics, 2026), 'Are recessions bad for loneliness?' (Kunz et al., Social Science & Medicine, 2025), and 'The importance of sampling frequency for estimates of well-being dynamics' (Hoskins, Johnston, Kunz, Shields & Staub, Economics Letters, 2024). His research has garnered over 380 citations on Google Scholar. Kunz supervises PhD students, teaches Introduction to Health Economics (HEC5970), and accepts graduate research students.