Dr Daniel Kopasker

  • Research Fellow (MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)

email: Daniel.Kopasker@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2636-8431

Biography

Daniel is an applied econometrician whose work focuses on the intersection of health and labour market outcomes. His research investigates the ways in which employment relationships become a social determinant of health over the lifecourse, with a particular focus on mental health outcomes. This work aims to identify and evaluate strategies to protect the mental health of employees, improve labour productivity, and reduce inequalities in health resulting from labour market outcomes. He is currently working on the Health Equity and its Economic Determinants (HEED) project.

Prior to joining the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in 2021, Daniel worked within the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) at the University of Aberdeen. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Aberdeen, and an MSc in Economics from the University of Edinburgh.

Research interests

Applied econometrics, policy evaluation, health economics, mental health, employment.

Publications

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Number of items: 21.

2024

Igelström, E. , Kopasker, D. , Craig, P. , Lewsey, J. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Estimating the causal effects of income on health: how researchers’ definitions of “income” matter. BMC Public Health, 24, 1572. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19049-w) (PMID:38862961)

Kopasker, D. et al. (2024) Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: a microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis. Social Science and Medicine, 351, 116953. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116953) (PMID:38759385)

Shimonovich, M. , Campbell, M. , Thomson, R. M. , Broadbent, P., Wells, V. , Kopasker, D. , McCartney, G. , Thomson, H. , Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Causal assessment of income inequality on self-rated health and all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Milbank Quarterly, 102(1), pp. 141-182. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12689) (PMID:38294094)

Thomson, R. M. , Kopasker, D. , Bronka, P., Richiardi, M., Khodygo, V. , Baxter, A. J. , Igelstrom, E. , Pearce, A. , Leyland, A. H. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Short-term impacts of Universal Basic Income on population mental health inequalities in the UK: a microsimulation modelling study. PLoS Medicine, 21(3), e1004358. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004358) (PMID:38437214)

2023

Höhn, A. et al. (2023) Systems science methods in public health: what can they contribute to our understanding of and response to the cost-of-living crisis? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(9), pp. 610-616. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220435) (PMID:37328262) (PMCID:PMC10423532)

Broadbent, P., Thomson, R. , Kopasker, D. , McCartney, G. , Meier, P. , Richiardi, M., McKee, M. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2023) The public health implications of the cost-of-living crisis: outlining mechanisms and modelling consequences. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 27, 100585. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100585) (PMID:37035237) (PMCID:PMC10068020)

Thomson, R. M. , Kopasker, D. , Leyland, A. , Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2023) Effects of poverty on mental health in the UK working-age population: causal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 52(2), pp. 512-522. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyac226) (PMID:36479855) (PMCID:PMC10114108)

Wels, J. et al. (2023) Home working and social and mental wellbeing at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: evidence from 7 longitudinal population surveys. PLoS Medicine, 20(4), e1004214. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004214) (PMID:37104282) (PMCID:PMC10138202)

Thomson, R. M. , Kopasker, D. , Leyland, A. , Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2023) To what extent does income explain the effect of unemployment on mental health? Mediation analysis in the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Psychological Medicine, 53(13), pp. 6271-6279. (doi: 10.1017/S0033291722003580) (PMID:36453184) (PMCID:PMC10520578)

2022

Kopasker, D. , Whybrow, S., McKenzie, L., McNamee, P. and Ludbrook, A. (2022) The effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on food purchases: evaluation of a natural experiment. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101174. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101174) (PMID:35898560) (PMCID:PMC9310105)

Kopasker, D. , Ejebu, O.-Z., Norwood, P. and Ludbrook, A. (2022) Longitudinal study of the effects of price and promotion incentives on purchases of unhealthy foods: evidence for restricting food promotions. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health, 5(1), pp. 62-71. (doi: 10.1136/bmjnph-2021-000323) (PMID:35814721) (PMCID:PMC9237875)

Katikireddi, S. V. , Kopasker, D. , Pearce, A. , Leyland, A. H. , Rostila, M. and Richiardi, M. (2022) Health Equity and Its Economic Determinants (HEED): protocol for a pan-European microsimulation model for health impacts of income and social security policies. BMJ Open, 12(7), e062405. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062405) (PMCID:PMC9301818)

2021

Elliott, R., Kopasker, D. and Skåtun, D. (2021) Public-sector resource allocation since the financial crisis. International Journal of Manpower, 42(4), pp. 521-536. (doi: 10.1108/IJM-10-2019-0488)

Kopasker, D. (2021) Good work and mental health in the post-Covid era. In: McCann, Philip and Vorley, Tim (eds.) Productivity and the Pandemic: Challenges and Insights from Covid-19. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: Cheltenham, UK, pp. 119-131. ISBN 9781800374591 (doi: 10.4337/9781800374607.00015)

Kopasker, D. , Robertson, C., Aucott, L., Vadiveloo, T., Imamura, M., Manson, P., Walker, A., Urquhart, G., Brazelli, M. and Scotland, G. (2021) Enzalutamide with ADT for treating metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer [ID1605]. [Research Reports or Papers]

2020

Kopasker, D. , Islam, M. K., Gibson, J., Lau, Y.-S., Sutton, M., Askildsen, J. E., Bond, C. and Elliott, R. (2020) Skill mix and patient outcomes: a multi-country analysis of heart disease and breast cancer patients. Health Policy, 124(10), pp. 1074-1082. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.07.009) (PMID:32792201)

Allanson, P. F., Brown, E. A., Kopasker, D. and Kwiatkowski, A. (2020) An investigation of the stability of patients’ treatment preferences over the course of a clinical trial. Value in Health, 23(6), pp. 775-781. (doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2019.12.011) (PMID:32540236)

Robertson, C., Fielding, S., Walker, A., Kopasker, D. , Vadiveloo, T., Manson, P., Price, G., Brazzelli, M. and Scotland, G. (2020) Lorlatinib for Previously Treated ALK-positive Advanced Non-small-cell Lung Cancer [ID1338]. [Research Reports or Papers]

2019

Kopasker, D. et al. (2019) Patient preferences for topical treatment of actinic keratoses: a discrete-choice experiment. British Journal of Dermatology, 180(4), pp. 902-909. (doi: 10.1111/bjd.16801) (PMID:29782648)

2018

Kopasker, D. , Montagna, C. and Bender, K. A. (2018) Economic insecurity: a socioeconomic determinant of mental health. SSM - Population Health, 6, pp. 184-194. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.09.006) (PMID:30417065) (PMCID:PMC6215053)

2017

Görg, H., Henze, P., Jienwatcharamongkhol, V., Kopasker, D. , Molana, H., Montagna, C. and Sjöholm, F. (2017) Firm size distribution and employment fluctuations: theory and evidence. Research in Economics, 71(4), pp. 690-703. (doi: 10.1016/j.rie.2017.09.002)

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Articles

Igelström, E. , Kopasker, D. , Craig, P. , Lewsey, J. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Estimating the causal effects of income on health: how researchers’ definitions of “income” matter. BMC Public Health, 24, 1572. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19049-w) (PMID:38862961)

Kopasker, D. et al. (2024) Evaluating the influence of taxation and social security policies on psychological distress: a microsimulation study of the UK during the COVID-19 economic crisis. Social Science and Medicine, 351, 116953. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116953) (PMID:38759385)

Shimonovich, M. , Campbell, M. , Thomson, R. M. , Broadbent, P., Wells, V. , Kopasker, D. , McCartney, G. , Thomson, H. , Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Causal assessment of income inequality on self-rated health and all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Milbank Quarterly, 102(1), pp. 141-182. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12689) (PMID:38294094)

Thomson, R. M. , Kopasker, D. , Bronka, P., Richiardi, M., Khodygo, V. , Baxter, A. J. , Igelstrom, E. , Pearce, A. , Leyland, A. H. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Short-term impacts of Universal Basic Income on population mental health inequalities in the UK: a microsimulation modelling study. PLoS Medicine, 21(3), e1004358. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004358) (PMID:38437214)

Höhn, A. et al. (2023) Systems science methods in public health: what can they contribute to our understanding of and response to the cost-of-living crisis? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(9), pp. 610-616. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220435) (PMID:37328262) (PMCID:PMC10423532)

Broadbent, P., Thomson, R. , Kopasker, D. , McCartney, G. , Meier, P. , Richiardi, M., McKee, M. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2023) The public health implications of the cost-of-living crisis: outlining mechanisms and modelling consequences. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 27, 100585. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100585) (PMID:37035237) (PMCID:PMC10068020)

Thomson, R. M. , Kopasker, D. , Leyland, A. , Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2023) Effects of poverty on mental health in the UK working-age population: causal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 52(2), pp. 512-522. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyac226) (PMID:36479855) (PMCID:PMC10114108)

Wels, J. et al. (2023) Home working and social and mental wellbeing at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: evidence from 7 longitudinal population surveys. PLoS Medicine, 20(4), e1004214. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004214) (PMID:37104282) (PMCID:PMC10138202)

Thomson, R. M. , Kopasker, D. , Leyland, A. , Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2023) To what extent does income explain the effect of unemployment on mental health? Mediation analysis in the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Psychological Medicine, 53(13), pp. 6271-6279. (doi: 10.1017/S0033291722003580) (PMID:36453184) (PMCID:PMC10520578)

Kopasker, D. , Whybrow, S., McKenzie, L., McNamee, P. and Ludbrook, A. (2022) The effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on food purchases: evaluation of a natural experiment. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101174. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101174) (PMID:35898560) (PMCID:PMC9310105)

Kopasker, D. , Ejebu, O.-Z., Norwood, P. and Ludbrook, A. (2022) Longitudinal study of the effects of price and promotion incentives on purchases of unhealthy foods: evidence for restricting food promotions. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health, 5(1), pp. 62-71. (doi: 10.1136/bmjnph-2021-000323) (PMID:35814721) (PMCID:PMC9237875)

Katikireddi, S. V. , Kopasker, D. , Pearce, A. , Leyland, A. H. , Rostila, M. and Richiardi, M. (2022) Health Equity and Its Economic Determinants (HEED): protocol for a pan-European microsimulation model for health impacts of income and social security policies. BMJ Open, 12(7), e062405. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062405) (PMCID:PMC9301818)

Elliott, R., Kopasker, D. and Skåtun, D. (2021) Public-sector resource allocation since the financial crisis. International Journal of Manpower, 42(4), pp. 521-536. (doi: 10.1108/IJM-10-2019-0488)

Kopasker, D. , Islam, M. K., Gibson, J., Lau, Y.-S., Sutton, M., Askildsen, J. E., Bond, C. and Elliott, R. (2020) Skill mix and patient outcomes: a multi-country analysis of heart disease and breast cancer patients. Health Policy, 124(10), pp. 1074-1082. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.07.009) (PMID:32792201)

Allanson, P. F., Brown, E. A., Kopasker, D. and Kwiatkowski, A. (2020) An investigation of the stability of patients’ treatment preferences over the course of a clinical trial. Value in Health, 23(6), pp. 775-781. (doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2019.12.011) (PMID:32540236)

Kopasker, D. et al. (2019) Patient preferences for topical treatment of actinic keratoses: a discrete-choice experiment. British Journal of Dermatology, 180(4), pp. 902-909. (doi: 10.1111/bjd.16801) (PMID:29782648)

Kopasker, D. , Montagna, C. and Bender, K. A. (2018) Economic insecurity: a socioeconomic determinant of mental health. SSM - Population Health, 6, pp. 184-194. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.09.006) (PMID:30417065) (PMCID:PMC6215053)

Görg, H., Henze, P., Jienwatcharamongkhol, V., Kopasker, D. , Molana, H., Montagna, C. and Sjöholm, F. (2017) Firm size distribution and employment fluctuations: theory and evidence. Research in Economics, 71(4), pp. 690-703. (doi: 10.1016/j.rie.2017.09.002)

Book Sections

Kopasker, D. (2021) Good work and mental health in the post-Covid era. In: McCann, Philip and Vorley, Tim (eds.) Productivity and the Pandemic: Challenges and Insights from Covid-19. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: Cheltenham, UK, pp. 119-131. ISBN 9781800374591 (doi: 10.4337/9781800374607.00015)

Research Reports or Papers

Kopasker, D. , Robertson, C., Aucott, L., Vadiveloo, T., Imamura, M., Manson, P., Walker, A., Urquhart, G., Brazelli, M. and Scotland, G. (2021) Enzalutamide with ADT for treating metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer [ID1605]. [Research Reports or Papers]

Robertson, C., Fielding, S., Walker, A., Kopasker, D. , Vadiveloo, T., Manson, P., Price, G., Brazzelli, M. and Scotland, G. (2020) Lorlatinib for Previously Treated ALK-positive Advanced Non-small-cell Lung Cancer [ID1338]. [Research Reports or Papers]

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Addressing the health and wellbeing effects of unemployment: cross-country comparative analysis of welfare state contexts
    University of Essex
    2023 - 2024
     
  • Creating robust whole population household-based synthetic populations
    The Alan Turing Institute
    2022 - 2023
     
  • MRC Block award MRC UNIT: MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
    Medical Research Council
    2022 - 2023