Bastian is an alumnus of the TI MPhil program (2011) and a PhD candidate in economics at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). Bastian’s research interests include health economics, labor economics, and microeconometrics.
The title of his PhD Thesis is ‘Essays on the Impact of Public Policy on Socioeconomic Health Disparities”, written under the supervision of TI fellow professor Eddy van Doorslaer (EUR) and to be defended in the second half of 2015.