Dr Tessa Peasgood BA (Leicester), MSc (Oxford), PhD (Imperial College London)

HEDS, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
UK

Office:

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0677
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095

E-mail: t.peasgood@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I joined HEDS in 2007.

Teaching Interests

My teaching interests lie in Economic Evaluation, Valuation of Health and Well-being, and Health Care Systems.

I am interested in supervising research students in topics/areas such as measuring and valuing well-being and understanding the determinants of well-being and happiness. I am particularly interested supervising studies in quantitative analysis of panel data.

I am Module Coordinator for the MPH Economic Evaluation and Health Care Finance:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/prospective_students/masters/mph/modules/hcf  

Research interests

My research interests are:

• Economics of well-being and happiness
• Investigating the determinants of subjective well-being
• Microeconomic evaluation of longitudinal data, particularly the BHPS

Key publications

• Peasgood T, Herrmann K, Kanis JA, Brazier JE, 2009. An updated systematic review of health state utility values for osteoporosis related conditions. Osteoporosis International 20(6):853-68. [link]
• Dolan P, Peasgood T, 2008. Measuring well-being for public policy: preferences or experiences. Journal of Legal Studies 37:5-31.
• Dolan P, Peasgood T, White M. Do we really know what makes us happy? A review of the literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being. Journal of Economic Psychology (2007), doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2007.09.001
• Dolan P, Peasgood T, 2007. Estimating the economic and social costs of the fear of crime. British Journal of Criminology 47:121-132. [link]
• Dolan P, Loomes G, Peasgood T, Tsuchiya A, 2005. Estimating the intangible victim costs of violent crime. British Journal of Criminology 45:958-976.
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