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PhD student in health economics, working on CALYs - Capability-Adjusted Life Years. CALYs are based on Sen's capability approach and are used in the same ways as QALYs.
I work as a PhD student in the CALY project. Anna Månsdotter is my main supervisor and Jan Hjelte are my co-supervisors. The CALY project is a Swedish initiative to develop a new measure for welfare and quality-of-life targeted at economic evaluations and monitoring.
The main characteristics of CALYs are:
I am mainly involved with the calculation of weights for CALY.