Curriculum Vitae:

Christoph Kronenberg is a PostDoc researcher of empirical health economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and deputy head of the junior research group EACH at the health economics research center CINCH. He studied health economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of York. Before coming to CINCH, Christoph worked as a research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. His research interests rotate around the relationship between information, health and health care utilization with a keen interest in mental health economics.

Publications:

• Kronenberg, Christoph; Miele, Kai R.: Supply Constraints and Negative Selection : Evidence from Mental Healthcare Markets. In: CINCH working paper series, Vol2026 (2026), No 01. doi:10.17185/duepublico/84929Abstract Details Citation

  Despite universal healthcare coverage and clinical guidelines recommending psychotherapy after psychiatric hospitalization, only 26% of German patients receive it, and paradoxically, the sickest patients are least likely to get treatment. Using administrative claims data, we investigate whether increasing psychotherapy supply addresses this misallocation. For identification, we exploit quasi-random variation from Germany's therapist license allocation system. A one standard deviation higher supply raises therapy uptake by 10%, modestly reduces waiting times, and lowers patient search frictions, but does not alter the composition of therapy recipients. These findings challenge the assumption that healthcare capacity constraints affect all patients equally.

Courses:

Health Economics – Theory