Prof. Dr. Debra Hevenstone

Research: comparative social policy, social insurance design, financing of social services, labor market integration

Teaching: Data & Statisics, Comparative Social Policy

Data and social services

Social policy design

BA, MA

Social Policy, Data Analysis, Management

Social service financing/contracts

Social insurance design

Gender & the labor market

Active labor market programs

Digitalization & data for practice

New Public Policy Financing Models, Innovative or Ineffective?“ (Swiss Network for International Studies, 2019-2021)

Family Models and Unemployment: How Intra-Household Economics Moderate the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design (Swiss National Science Foundation, 2018-2022)

Reducing Work After Childbirth: A causal estimate of long-run lost income (PI with Ana Fernandes, SNF, 2020-2021)

Hack4SocialGood. An event helping digitalization in the social services.

Hevenstone, Debra; Fraser, Alec; Hobi, Lukas; Geuke, Gemma; Przepiorka, Wojtek (2023). The Impact of Social Impact Bond Financing.” Public Administration Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13631

Hevenstone, D., Fraser, A., Hobi, L. C., & Geuke, G. (2022). Why is Impact Measurement Abandoned in Practice? Evidence use in evaluation and contracting for five European Social Impact Bonds. In Evaluation (Vol. 29, Issue 1). Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.18910

Fraser, Alec; Knoll, Lisa; Hevenstone, Debra (2022) Contested Social Impact Bonds: welfare conventions, conflicts, and compromises in five European Active Labor Market Programs” 2022. International Public Management Journal.

Hevenstone, Debra; von Bergen, Matthias (2020). Public Private Partnerships in Social Impact Bonds: Competition Facilitating or Hindering Competition? Public Money and Management. 40(3)

Hevenstone, Debra; Fraser, Alec (2021) Social Impact Bonds 2.0? SIBs Growth in Europe May Reflect Politics and Lack of Accountability. Policy Brief Manchester Metropolitan and USC Price

Hevenstone, Debra; Hobi, Lukas (2020) Social Impact Bonds: Unterschiedliche Erfahrungen von Sozialdienstleistern. ZESO.

Hevenstone, Debra; Fraser, Alec; Hobi, Lukas (2020) International Perspectives on Social Impact Bonds: The views of German, British, and Swiss Providers of Labour Market Programmes. Oxford Go Lab Blog

Hevenstone, Debra; Kessler, Dorian; Luchsinger, Larissa (2023) What Limits Intra-Household Insurance or the "Added Worker Effect"? forthcoming in Socio-Economic Review

Kessler, D., Hevenstone, D., Vandecasteele, L., & Sepahniya, S. (2022). Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce? In Journal of European Social Policy (Vol. 33, Issue 2). Sage Publications. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17106

Kessler, D., & Hevenstone, D. (2022). The impact of unemployment benefits on birth outcomes: Quasi-experimental evidence from European linked register data. In PLoS One (Vol. 17, Issue 3). Public Library of Science (PLoS). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.16674

Kuhn, Ursina; Hevenstone, Debra; Vandecasteele, Leen, Sephniya, Samin; Kessler, Dorian (2023). Unemployment Insurance and the Family: How reemployment and economic precarity depend on family context (working paper, in progress)

Hevenstone, D., Kessler, D., & Kuhn, U. (2022). Arbeitslosenversicherung: gleiche Regeln, unterschiedlicher Schutz. In impuls : Magazin des Departements Soziale Arbeit (Issue 3). Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Soziale Arbeit. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17635

Fernandes, Ana; Hevenstone, Debra (2023). Income Losses Following First Births. (working paper, revision in progress)

Hevenstone, Debra; Neuenschwander, Peter (2020) BVG: Altersunabhängige Beitragssätze gegen Altersdiskriminierung? CHHS

Hevenstone, Debra; Neuenschwander, Peter; Kessler, Dorian (2023). How Pension Costs Impact Job Search and Wages: Are Higher Contributions for Older Workers More Equitable? (working paper, revision in progress).

Hevenstone, Debra (2015). The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Hevenstone, Debra; Jann, Ben (2016). Fiscal Federalism and Tax Equalization: The potential for progressive local taxes. University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers 19.

Hevenstone, Debra; Jann, Ben (2014). Simulation in Methods of Empirical Social Research. Wiesbaden: Springer.

Hevenstone, Debra (2014). The Marriage Matching Problem with Information Limited by Social Networks. MMB & DFT 2014
Proceedings of the International Workshops SOCNET 2014 and FGENET 2014

Hevenstone, Debra (2008). “Employment Intermediaries: A model of firm incentives." 2008. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 33:1-37.

Hevenstone, Debra (2008). Academic Employment Networks & Departmental Prestige in Why Context Matters: Applications of Social Network Analysis. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

Buchs, Helen; Buchmann, Marlis (2017). Job Vacancies and Unemployment in Switzerland 2006-2014: Labor Market Mismatch and the Significance of Labor Market Tightness for Unemployment Duration. (left project due to maternity)

Hevenstone, Debra (2017). Defining a Labor Market and the Sensitivity of Estimates of Labor Market Mismatch (working paper discontinued during maternity-copy available upon request).

Fritschi, Tobias; Neuenschwander, Peter; Hevenstone, Debra; Lehmann, Olivier; Läser, Jodok; Hänggeli, Alissa (2023). Arbeitsmarktrelevante Merkmale von Personen mit Schutzstatus S. SEM Schlussbericht.

Greenberg, David; Knight, Genevieve; Speckesser, Stefan; Hevenstone Debra (2013). Improving DWP assessment of the relative costs and benefits of employment programmes. Department of Work and Pensions Working Paper No. 100

Hendra, Richard; Ray, Kathryn; Vegeris, Sandra; Hevenstone, Debra; Hudson, Maria (2011). Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration: Delivery, take-up, and outcomes of in-work training support for lone parents. Department of Work and Pensions Working Paper No. 727.

Hevenstone, Debra (2011). Flexicurity, Happiness, and Satisfaction. International Journal of Sociology. 41(3).

Hevenstone, Debra (2010). National Context and Atypical Employment. International Sociology 25(3).

Berger, Joël; Hevenstone, Debra (2016). Norm Enforcement in the City Revisited: An International Field Experiment of Altruistic Punishment, Norm Maintenance, and Broken Windows. Rationality and Society.

Hevenstone, Debra (2014). Social Policy's Middle Way: Housing Cooperatives & Inclusionary Zoning. Swiss Sociological Association Conference Proceedings.

Hevenstone, Debra (2013) Review of “Justice and Conflicts: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions.” in Social Justice Research. 26(1): 97-103.

Hevenstone, Debra (2001). Testing Variation in Welfare Reform. Anthropology News 42.

LIVES , Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research working groups

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

European Network for Social Policy Analysis

Society of Labor Economists