Min Xie

min.xie@uni-heidelberg.de

👨‍💻 Postdoctoral researcher at heidelberg institute of global health (HIGH), Heidelberg University Hospital

Affiliated with the department of medicine, Stanford University

🎓 PhD in economics, Heidelberg University

🔬 I am an applied economist with research interests in population health, epidemiology, and health economics. My work focuses on impact evaluation using natural experiments, with a particular emphasis on clinical and health interventions. I have extensive experience working with electronic health records (EHRs).

Publications

A population based, regression discontinuity analysis examined the effects of nationwide alerting for acute kidney injury on healthcare and patient outcomes

Kidney International, 2026

Min Xie, Pascal Geldsetzer, Tom Blakeman, Matthew James, Tim Scale, Zhi Tan & Simon Sawhney

The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course

Cell, 2025

Min Xie, Markus Eyting, Christian Bommer, Haroon Ahmed & Pascal Geldsetzer

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia

Nature, 2025

Markus Eyting*, Min Xie*, Felix Michalik, Simon Heß, Seunghun Chung & Pascal Geldsetzer

(* shared first authorship)

Media: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Das Tagesspiegel, Zeit, DW, SWR, Deutchlandfunk (radio), The Guardian, Time, New York Times, 科技日报, 日本経済新聞

Quasi-experimental evaluation of a nationwide diabetes prevention programme

Nature, 2023

Julia M. Lemp, Christian Bommer, Min Xie, Felix Michalik, Anant Jani, Justine I. Davies, Till Bärnighausen, Sebastian Vollmer & Pascal Geldsetzer

Media: Nature News, The Guardian, Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 医学科学报

School grants and education outcomes: the impacts of a non-salary budget reform in Punjab Pakistan

International Journal of Educational Development, 2026

Min Xie, Kafeel Sarwar

Financial inclusion through more rural banks? evidence from Pakistan’s bank branch licensing policy

book chapter in: Pursuing Inclusive Economic Development in Asia: A Celebration of Peter McCawley, edited by Hal Hill and Daniel Suryadarma, Asian Development Bank Institute, 2025.

Min Xie, Stefan Klonner

Working papers

The effect of herpes zoster vaccination on the occurrence of deaths due to dementia in England and Wales

medRxiv, 2023

Felix Michalik, Min Xie, Markus Eyting, Simon Heß, Seunghun Chung & Pascal Geldsetzer