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  • An NWO Open Competition - SSH L grant has been awarded to Bas van der Klaauw

    Bas van der Klaauw, Hessel Oosterbeek, Monique de Haan, Nadine Ketel

    Bas van der Klaauw (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. Van der Klaauw's research focuses on lottery systems in secondary education and is conducted in collaboration with research fellows Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Monique de Haan and Hessel Oosterbeek (both University of Amsterdam)

  • The 2024 H. Gregg Lewis Prize has been awarded to Nadine Ketel

    Nadine Ketel

    The prestigious H. Gregg Lewis Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Labor Economics during 2022–23 has been awarded to research fellow and alumna Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and co-author Anna Bindler (University of Cologne, Germany) for “Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization,” which appeared in the October 2022 issue of the journal.

  • Elisabeth Leduc obtains Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship

    Elisabeth Leduc

    The European Commission has awarded candidate fellow Elisabeth Leduc (Erasmus University Rotterdam) a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research project on “Institutional Discrimination in (Explicit) Action: How Policies Shape Inequalities”.

  • Maarten Lindeboom to serve on the WRR from 2024 onwards

    Maarten Lindeboom

    Research fellow Maarten Lindeboom will start on January 1, 2024 with his appointment as an advisory member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). The Council of Ministers approved the nomination of the new WRR (Scientific Council for Government Policy) advisory council for the period 2023-2027 in 2022, and in doing so also approved the appointment of the new council member Lindeboom.

  • Nadine Ketel receives Veni research grant

    Nadine Ketel

    Research fellow Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded Veni funding from the NWO (Dutch Research Council). Nadine Ketel will use the grant to conduct research into inequality of opportunity in education.

  • Yasmine Van der Straten and Elisa de Weerd selected for conversation with Ministers of Dutch cabinet

    Elisa de Weerd, Yasmine van der Straten

    hD students Yasmine Van der Straten (University of Amsterdam) and Elisa de Weerd (Erasmus University Rotterdam) were invited to the Catshuis, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, as two of six young economists to engage in conversation with the Minister of Finance Sigrid Kaag, Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Micky Adriaansens and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Karien van Gennip on the theme of broad prosperity.

  • Paul Muller receives Vidi research grant

    Paul Muller

    Paul Muller (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded an 800,000 euro Vidi funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his research on labor market shortages in the Netherlands.

  • Julius Ilciukas wins best PhD paper award

    Julius Ilciukas

    Julius Ilciukas wins best PhD paper award at the 5th Baltic Economic Conference, organized by the Baltic Economic Association. The Baltic Economic Conference is the annual conference, rotating every year within the three Baltic countries. This year the conference took place in Riga, Latvia, organized by the Baltic Economic Association, in cooperation with the Bank of Latvia and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

  • Julius Ilciukas wins best PhD paper award at the 5th Baltic Economic Conference

    Julius Ilciukas

    The jury, consisting of the representatives of SSE Riga and the Bank of Latvia, the Bank of Lithuania, the Bank of Estonia and Tallinn University of Technology, unanimously awarded this year's best paper to Julius Ilciukas for his paper on "Fertility and Parental Retirement”. 

  • Anne Boring obtains an NWO Open Competition SSH-M Grant

    Anne Boring

    Anne Boring of Erasmus School of Economics has obtained an NWO Open Competition SSH-M grant. Anne receives this grant, with a maximum budget of 400,000 euro, to enable her to work on her project about diversity in leadership positions.

  • Titus Galama receives Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network grant

    Titus Galama

    Titus Galama (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), who is affiliated with the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) project on behalf of the School of Business and Economics, will spend part of the grant money (€548,740) together with scientists and students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, studying the relationship between genes (nature) and environment (nurture) in health, education and work. One of the spearheads is to better understand the causes of inequality.

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Network consortium grant in the Horizon Europe programme

    Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld

    The European Commission has granted research fellows Hans van Kippersluis and Niels Rietveld with a 2.9 million euros Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Network consortium grant in the Horizon Europe programme.

  • Pilar García-Gómez appointed as Professor of Applied Economics

    Pilar Garcia-Gomez

    As of 1 September 2021, research fellow Pilar García-Gómez has been appointed Professor of Applied Economics with focus on Health and Labour at Erasmus School of Economics.

  • ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Titus Galama and Sjoerd van Alten

    Sjoerd van Alten, Titus Galama

    Titus Galama (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Sjoerd van Alten (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have received an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project “Genetic and environmental determinants of socioeconomic status in the Lifelines cohort.”

  • ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Bastian Ravesteijn and Coen van de Kraats

    Bastian Ravesteijn, Coen van de Kraats

    Bastian Ravesteijn (Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Coen van de Kraats (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have received an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project “Using big data to give children a promising start in life.” The aim of this project is to personalize prevention and care from the moment a child is conceived throughout childhood since. Currently one in seven children in the Netherlands is deprived of a healthy life start in life. They will bring novel PYHC data into the Statistics Netherlands (CBS) secure microdata environment and work together with our PYHC partners to assess and improve the quality of these data, in order to document how, when, and where the “childhood opportunity gap” opens up in the Netherlands. They will use the infomration that is available during gestation or in early childhood to predict later childhood outcomes, in order to better target existing preventive actions to children and (future) parents.

  • Paper by Anne Gielen featured as chart of the week in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

    Anne Gielen

    The paper ‘Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance' by research fellow Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Gordon B. Dahl (University of California, San Diego, United States) is being featured as chart of the week in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

  • ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Massimo Giuliodori and Lisa Timm

    Lisa Timm, Massimo Giuliodori

    Massimo Giuliodori (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) received the ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project evaluating the impact and effectiveness of the 30% tax rule. Additionally, the Ministry of Finance supports the project through providing access to unique data on who has benefited from the 30% tax rule. The data has been linked with CBS microdata. he project will be carried out by Massimo Giuliodori (UvA) and Paul Muller (VU). Lisa Timm (Research Master student Tinbergen Institute) will write her PhD thesis on these topics.

  • ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Paul Muller

    Paul Muller

    Paul Muller (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project evaluating the impact and effectiveness of the 30% tax rule. Additionally, the Ministry of Finance supports the project through providing access to unique data on who has benefited from the 30% tax rule. The data has been linked with CBS microdata. he project will be carried out by Massimo Giuliodori (UvA) and Paul Muller (VU). Lisa Timm (Research Master student Tinbergen Institute) will write her PhD thesis on these topics.

  • National Institute of Health (NIH-US) Grant for Hans van Kippersluis

    Hans van Kippersluis

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States, has awarded Hans van Kippersluis, (Erasmus School of Economics) with a High Priority, Short-Term Project Award (R56). This grant is awarded to researchers who have written a highly meritorious application for a one- or two-year high priority project.

  • National Institute of Health (NIH-US) Grant for Titus Galama

    Titus Galama

    A team of international researchers, led by Titus Galama (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), obtained one year of NIH funding for the project: Identifying gene-by-environment interplay in health behaviour. The grant is awarded by the National Institute of Health (NIH).