Nadine Ketel receives NWO VIDI Grant
Nadine Ketel
Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant of up to €850,000 to Nadine Ketel for her research on the Hidden Costs of Crime.
Nadine Ketel
Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant of up to €850,000 to Nadine Ketel for her research on the Hidden Costs of Crime.
Wendy Janssens, Pierre Koning
Research fellows Wendy Janssens and Pierre Koning (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), as part of a broad consortium led by Teun Zuiderent-Jerak (Athena Institute - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), received a €3.6 million NWO-KIC grant to develop and evaluate the Barrier-Free Digital Frontdoor (“Drempelloze Digitale Voordeur”). Part of this grant will be used for a PhD position starting in September 2027.
Alberto Antonello
Alberto Antonello has been awarded an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for his project 'Adult Children’s Outcomes After Parental Nursing Home Entry.' This grant allows him to use CBS microdata to study how parental nursing home entry affects the lives of adult children.
Erik Plug
Research fellow Erik Plug has been selected as new members by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). A total of 16 new members will join this year. The new members, selected by expert juries in each scientific and scholarly field, don't just excel in their research, they also attach great importance to playing a role in society as scientists.
Carlos Riumallo Herl
Carlos Riumallo Herl has been awarded an XS grant of up to €50,000 by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project 'Understanding and Overcoming Low Preventive Medication Adherence in Pregnancy.'
Tom Van Ourti
Tom Van Ourti has been awarded an XS grant of up to €50,000 by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project 'Does it take a village? The Social and Economic Impacts of Community-Based Mental Health Care for Women in Low-Resource Settings.'
Anne Gielen
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded research fellow Anne Gielen of the Erasmus School of Economics a prestigious Vici grant. The grant, of of up to €1.5 million, will enable Anne to further consolidate and expand her research group over the next five years through her project, ‘Making Money Matter: Rethinking the Design of Income Support to Break the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty.’
Carlos Riumallo Herl
Carlos Riumallo Herl receives a Vidi grant for his research project 'Screening for cardiovascular diseases: The role of behavioural and non-behavioural barriers to uptake'.
Stanislav Avdeev
PhD student Stanislav Avdeev (University of Amsterdam) was awarded the 2025 EAIE Doctoral Research Grant. The grant provides up to €4500 in support of research.
Anne Gielen, Esmee Zwiers
Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Esmée Zwiers (University of Amsterdam) have been awarded an NWO Open Competition SSH M Grant Round 2024 for the project titled 'Hormones at Work: How Menopause affects Women’s Labor Market Outcomes.'
Stanislav Avdeev
Stanislav Avdeev has been awarded the 2025 ESPE PhD Prize, created by the European Society for Population Economics to recognize outstanding work by PhD candidates in population economics for his paper “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization.”
Bastian Ravesteijn
Research fellow Bastian Ravesteijn, affiliated with the Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, has been awarded an Open Competition SSH XS grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) in the first round of 2025. Maximum amount per application is €50.000.
Stanislav Avdeev
Stanislav Avdeev wins Best Paper Award at the CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education. Stanislav received the paper award for his research titled "University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization."
Monique de Haan, Nadine Ketel, Bas van der Klaauw, Hessel Oosterbeek
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)
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
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
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.
Yun Xiao
Yun Xiao is the winner of the prestigious KVS Medal (‘Penning’) 2023 for best PhD thesis defended in the field of economics at a Dutch university in the past three years. Yun won the medal for her PhD thesis entitled ‘Fertility, Parental Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility' defended on September 27, 2022 at the University of Amsterdam. Research fellow Hessel Oosterbeek and Pauline Rossi acted as supervisors.
Zichen Deng
Zichen Deng (University of Amsterdam and Norwegian School of Economics) received an Honorable Mention from the KVS for his thesis 'Empirical studies in health and development economics'. Research fellow Maarten Lindeboom acted as supervisor. Zichen received the Honorable Mention during the award of the KVS Medal, which is awarded every three years (previously every two years) to the student who has written and defended the best dissertation in economics during the preceding period.
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.