Judite Gonçalves is a researcher with the Health Economics & Management Knowledge Center, with research interests spanning the fields of Health Economics, Labour Economics, and the Economics of Ageing. Currently, she is particularly interested in long-term care, health & labour interactions, and sin taxes. Previously, she held research positions at Queen Mary University of London and the Geneva School of Economics & Management, where she obtained her PhD in Econometrics in 2015. 

2015 - PhD in Econometrics - University of Geneva,Switzerland

2011 - Master in Economics, Major in Economic Policy - University of Neuchâtel,Switzerland

2010 - Bachelor in Economics - Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Health Economics; Labour Economics; Economics of Ageing; Policy Evaluation

• Gonçalves, Judite, Costa, Eduardo, Hone, Thomas, Singh, Damini, Pereda, Paula, Laverty, Anthony A., Millett, Christopher (2025). Do fossil fuel subsidies crowd out health expenditure? a country-level longitudinal analysis. (Accepted/In press) Health Economics (United Kingdom).
• Gonçalves, Judite, Filipe, Luís, Van Houtven, Courtney H. (2025). Trajectories of disability and long-term care utilization after acute health events. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 37 (1), 47-70.
• Gonçalves, Judite, Weaver, France (2025). Who came to the rescue? Sources of informal support to older Europeans before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Age And Ageing, 54 (2).
• Di Fabrizio, Carolina, Gonçalves, Judite, Martins, Maria do Rosário O. (2025). Community-based interventions to improve the health of migrant children in high-income countries: A systematic review. Social Science and Medicine, 383.
• Faour, Andrea Katrin, Belančić, Andrej, Štimac, Ida, Gkrinia, Elvira Meni Maria, Goncalves, Judite, Pineda, Elisa, Vitezić, Dinko (2025). The cost-effectiveness of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator modulators: A systematic review of economic evaluations. (Accepted/In press) British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
• Gonçalves, Judite, Merenda, Roxanne, Pereira dos Santos, João (2024). Not so sweet: Impacts of a soda tax on producers. International Tax and Public Finance, 31, 1388–1412.
• Hone, Thomas, Gonçalves, Judite, Seferidi, Paraskevi, Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo, Rocha, Rudi, Gupta, Indrani, Bhardwaj, Vinayak, Hidayat, Taufik, Cai, Chang, Suhrcke, Marc, Millett, Christopher (2024). Progress towards universal health coverage and inequalities in infant mortality: an analysis of 4·1 million births from 60 low-income and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2019. The Lancet Global Health, 12 (5), e744-e755.
• Barcelos, Anabela, Gonçalves, Judite, Mateus, Céu, Canhão, Helena, Rodrigues, Ana Maria (2023). Costs of incident non-hip osteoporosis-related fractures in postmenopausal women from a payer perspective. Osteoporosis International, 34, 2111–2119.
• Brodbeck, Jeannette, Jacinto, Sofia, Gouveia, Afonso, Mendonça, Nuno, Madörin, Sarah, Brandl, Lena, Schokking, Lotte, Rodrigues, Ana Maria, Gonçalves, Judite, Mooser, Bettina, Marques, Marta M, Isaac, Joana, Nogueira, Vasco, Matos Pires, Ana, van Velsen, Lex (2022). A Web-Based Self-help Intervention for Coping With the Loss of a Partner: Protocol for Randomized Controlled Trials in 3 Countries. JMIR Research Protocols, 11 (11).
• Valente de Almeida, Sara, Correa, Rafael, Gonçalves, Judite (2022). Can intersectoral interventions reduce substance use in adolescence? Evidence from a multicentre randomized controlled study. International Journal of Public Health, 67.
• Gonçalves, Judite, Martins, Pedro S. (2021). Effects of self-employment on hospitalizations: instrumental variables analysis of social security data. Small Business Economics, 57 (3), 1527–1543.
• Gonçalves, Judite, von Hafe, Francisco, Filipe, Luís (2021). Formal home care use and spousal health outcomes. Social Science & Medicine, 287.
• Gonçalves, Judite, Pereira dos Santos, João (2020). Brown sugar, how come you taste so good? The impact of a soda tax on prices and consumption. Social Science & Medicine, 264.
• Gonçalves, Judite, Weaver, France, Konetzka, R. Tamara (2020). Measuring state medicaid home care participation and intensity using latent variables. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 39 (7), 731-744.
• Ryser, Valérie Anne, Weaver, France, Gonçalves, Judite (2018). Health-related inequalities in life satisfaction among the 50+ population in Europe: evidence from SHARE. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 44 (2), 301-325.
• Gonçalves, Judite, Weaver, France (2017). Effects of formal home care on hospitalizations and doctor visits. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 17 (2), 203-233.
• Gonçalves, Judite, Gomes, Maria Isabel, Fonseca, Miguel, Teodoro, Tomás, Barros, Pedro Pita, Botelho, Maria-Amália (2017). Selfie aging index: an index for the self-assessment of healthy and active aging. Frontiers in medicine, 4 (DEC).

• von Hafe, Francisco, Gonçalves, Judite, Mateus, Céu (2024). The impact of developing green and exercise-friendly spaces in deprived neighborhoods on health and healthy lifestyles: A systematic literature review. Environmental Health Behavior. : Concepts, Determinants, and Impacts. Elsevier, 147-163.

• Goncalves, Judite, Rocha-Gomes, João, Amorim-Lopes, Mário, Martins, Pedro S. (Aug 2024), 31 p., (Nova School of Business & Economics, n. 661), What is (behind) the gender gap in sickness benefits? Evidence from administrative data.